GLOSSARY 371 



Glabrate. Nearly glabrous. 



Glabrescent. Becoming glabrous. 



Glabrous. Not hairy; without trichomes. 



Glands. Secreting organs (resin-glands of sweet bay, nec- 

 tar-glands of cherry laurel, oil-glands of orange). Leaf- 

 teeth and stipules often end in minute glands. 



Glandular-bristly. With stiff gland-tipped hairs. 



Glandular-ciliate. Fringed with small glands. 



Glandular-pubescent. With gland-tipped hairs. 



Glaucous. With white or bluish bloom (box elder twig). 



Globose. Shaped like a globe; spherical. 



Granular. Minutely roughened. 



Gritty, Containing hard particles (pith of aucuba). 



Gum. A rather fluid resin, as loosely used. 



Gummy. Sticky, as applied to sap. 



Gymnosperms. Plants that have naked seeds, not enclosed 

 in a pistil. With angiosperms, they constitute the flower- 

 ing plants or seed-plants. 



Habit. General appearance or mode of growth. 



Hairs. Superficial outgrowths; trichomes: sometimes flat and 

 scale-like (rhododendron), sometimes of rays like the 

 spokes of a wheel, when they are spoken of as stellate 

 (deutzia), sometimes round plates attached in the middle, 

 when they are spoken of as peltate (oleaster). 



Hairy. Pubescent: often used when the hairs are rather 

 long. 



Half-shrub. A suffruticose or soft-wooded* plant. 



Hardy. Used in the horticultural sense, enduring winter-cold. 



Harsh. Rough to the touch, as applied to pubescence. 



Head. A round or flat cluster of sessile flowers. 



Heath-like. Fine-stemmed and low, rather simple, with per- 

 sistent leaves. 



Herbaceous. Not woody; in contrast with lignified. 



Hispid. With stiff bristly hairs. 



