GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS 303 



Glabrate. Becoming glabrous or nearly glabrous with age. 



Glabrous. Without hairs, or not pubescent. 



Gland. A protruding body which secretes oily or aromatic substances,' 



more often being understood in the sense of gland-like, whether it 



secretes or not. 

 Glandular. Provided with glands; or gland-like. 

 Glaucescent. Slightly glaucous or bluish-gray. 



Glaucous. Covered with a white bloom of a waxy substance which rubs off. 

 Globose. Nearly spherical. 

 Gymnospermae. Plants with naked seeds. 

 Gynsecium. The pistils as a whole. 

 Gynandrous. The stamens united with the pistils. 



Habitat. The place in which a plant grows. 



Hermaphrodite. A perfect flower; one having both stamens and pistils. 

 Hetero-. In Greek compounds, meaning of two or more sorts, as het- 

 erophyllous with two sorts of leaves. 

 Hilum. The scar of a seed, the place of its attachment. 

 Hirsute. Haiiy, with coarse, stiff hairs. 

 Hispid. Bristly, provided with stiff hair?. 

 Hypogynous. Free from or inserted under the pistil. 



Imbricate. Overlapping one another, as the scales of a rish. 



Induplicate. With edges folded or turned in. 



Imperfect. Flowers without either stamens or pistils. 



Incised. Deeply and irregularly cut. 



Included. Not exserted; enclosed. 



Incomplete. Said of a flower in which either calyx or corolla is wanting. 



Indefinite. Very numerous, or not uniform in number. 



Indehiscent. Not splitting open. 



Indigenous. Native, not introduced. 



Inferior. Said of an organ placed beneath another; an ovary is inferior 



when the floral organs grow on its summit. 

 Inflated. Bladder like. 



Inflorescence. Flower-cluster, or the arrangement of the flowers in a plant. 

 Internode. The space between two nodes of a stem. 

 Introrse. Facing inward. 



Involucre. A whorl of bracts subtending a flower or a flower-cluster. 

 Irregular. Not symmetrical. 



