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GLOSSARY. 



Fruit. The matured seed- or spore-vessel, of 

 whatever kind, with its appendages and con- 

 tents. 



Frutescent. Shrubby or somewhat so. 



Fruticose. Decidedly shrubby. 



Fruticulosc. Diminutive of the last ; shrubby, 

 but small. 



Fugacious. Soon falling ; of short continuance. 



Fulcrate. Subtended or surrounded by bracts, 

 or the like. 



Fulvous. Dull brownish or grayish yellow. 



Funyous. Spongy ; fungus-like. 



Funiculus. The stalk of an ovule or seed. 



Funnel-form. Tubular, but expanding gradually 

 from the narrow base to the spreading border 

 or limb. 



Furcate. Forked ; with divergent branches. 



Furrowed. Deeply grooved longitudinally. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped, i. e. tapering toward 

 each end from a thickened middle. 



Galea. A helmet ; applied to the helmet-shaped 

 portion of the corolla in Labiatae, Aconitum, 

 etc. ; also to the upper lip of some Serophu- 

 lariacea?, though not so shaped. 



Galeate. Having a galea. 



Gamopetalous. Applied to a corolla whose parts 

 are not distinct but more or less coalescent ; 

 monopetalous. 



Gamophyllous. With united or coalescent leaves 

 or parts, applied either to corolla or calyx. 



Gamosepalous. Having the sepals more or less 

 coalescent. 



Geminate. In pah's ; binate ; twin. 



Generic. Relating to the genus. 



Geniculate. Bent abruptly at an angle, like the 

 knee. 



Genus, pi. Genera. The divisions of an Order 

 or Family, each consisting of a more or less 

 clearly denned group of nearly related species. 



Germination. The sprouting of a seed ; the 

 development of the young plant from the 

 embryo. 



Gerontogceous. Belonging to the Old World. 



Gibbous. Protuberant ; swelling out and some- 

 what saccate at one side. 



Glabrate. Becoming glabrous. 



Glabrous. Without hairs, pubescence or rough- 

 ness. 



Gland. Any secreting structure, depression or 

 prominence, on any part of a plant, or any 

 structure having a similar appearance. 



Glandular. Bearing glands, or gland-like. 



Glaucescent. Somewhat glaucous ; becoming 

 glaucous. 



Glaucous. Covered with a fine whitish bloom 

 that is easily rubbed off; having a bluish- 

 hoary appearance. 



Globose, Globular. Round ; spherical, or nearly 

 so. 



Glochidiate. Barbed, like a fish-hook. 



Glomerate. Closely clustered. 



Glomerule. A compact somewhat capitate cyme. 



Glumaceous. Glume-like ; having glumes ; 

 chaffy. 



Glume. In grasses, the chaff- like bracts sub- 

 tending the spikelets. 



Glutinous. Viscid ; sticky ; covered with a 

 sticky secretion. 



Grain. The fruit of grasses. See Caryopsis. 



Gramineous. Relating to or resembling the 

 grasses. 



Granular. Composed of small grains or grain- 

 like bodies ; rough with grain-like promi- 

 nences. 



Gymnospcrms. Plants having naked seeds, or 

 in which the typically naked ovule is fer- 

 tilized directly by the pollen without the inter- 

 vention of a stigma. 



Gijnandrous. Having the stamens adnate to 

 the pistils and style, so as to be apparently 

 borne at or upon its summit, as in Orchids. 



Gynobase. A short thick prolongation of the 

 axis or receptacle upon which the pistil rests ; 

 sometimes applied to a shortened carpophore. 



Gynoxiiim. A term applied to the pistil or 

 aggregate pistils of a flower. 



Habit. The general form and appearance of a 

 plant. 



Habitat. The locality or geographical range of 

 a plant. 



Hairs. Slender cellular outgrowths from the 

 epidermis of plants, of various forms and 

 kinds. 



Hairy. Covered with hairs, more or less loosely. 



Halbert-shapcd. See Hastate. 



Hamate. Curved at the end into a hook. 



Hamulate. Diminutive of the last. 



Hastate. Triangular or arrow-shaped with the 

 basal angles or lobes directed outward. 



Head. A cluster of flowers, which are sessile or 

 nearly so upon a very short axis or receptacle ; 

 a shortened spike. 



Heart-shaped. Cordate ; ovate with a sinus be- 

 tween the rounded basal lobes. 



Herb. A plant that has no persistent woody 

 growth above the base. 



Herbaceous. Having the character of an herb ; 

 not woody or shrubby. 



Herbarium. A systematically arranged collec- 

 tion of dried plants. 



Heterogamous. Bearing two kinds of flowers. 



Heterogeneous. Dissimilar ; differing in kind. 



Hctcromallous. Spreading in all directions. 



Hetcromorphous. Of different forms. 



Heterophyllous. Having leaves of different 

 forms. 



Heterosporous. Bearing spores of more than one 

 kind. 



Hilum. The scar or place of attachment of the 

 seed. 



Hippocrepiform. Having the shape of a horse- 

 shoe. 



Hirsute. Pubescent with rather coarse or stiff 

 hairs. 



Hispid. Beset with rigid or bristly hairs. 



Hispidulous. Minutely hispid. 



Hoary. Grayish-white with a fine close pubes- 

 cence. 



Homogamous. Having only one kind of flowers. 



Homogeneous. Uniform in character, nature or 

 kind. 



Homomalloiis. Secund ; turned to one side. 



