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Homomdrphous : all of one shape. 



Hom&ropous or Hom6tropal (embryo) : curved with the seed; curved one way- 

 Hood: same as helmet or galea. Hooded: hood-shaped; see cucullate. 

 Hooked: same as hamate. 



Horn : a spur or some similar appendage. Horny : of the texture of horn. 

 Hortus Siccus: an herbarium, or collection of dried plants; p. 201. 

 Humifuse : spread over the surface of the ground. 

 Hyaline : transparent, or partly so. 

 Hybrid: a cross-breed between two allied species. 

 ; Hypocrateriform : salver-shaped; p. 101, fig. 202, 208. 

 Hypogce.au: produced under ground. 

 Hypogynous: inserted under the pistil; p. 103, fig. 212. 



Icosdndrous : having 12 or more stamens inserted on the calyx. 



Imbricate, Imbricated, Imbricative: overlapping one another, like tiles or shingles 

 on a roof, as the scales of the involucre of Zinnia, &c., or the bud-scales of 

 Horsechcsnut (fig. 48) and Hickory (fig. 49). In aestivation, where some 

 leaves of the calyx or corolla are overlapped on both sides by others ; p. 109. 



Immarainate : destitute of a rim or border. 



Immersed: growing wholly under water. 



Impari-pinnate : pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex ; p. 65, fig. 126. 



Imperfect flowers : wanting either stamens or pistils; p. 89. 



Imrqnilateral : unequal-sided, as the leaf of a Begonia. 



Incanous: hoary with white pubescence. 



Incised: cut rather deeply and irregularly ; p. 62. 



Included: enclosed ; when the part in question does not project beyond another. 



Incomplete Flower : wanting calyx or corolla ; p. 90. 



Incrassated: thickened. 



Incumbent : leaning or resting upon : the cotyledons are incumbent when tha 

 back of one of them lies against the radicle; the anthers are incumbent 

 when turned or looking inwards, p. 113. 



Incurved: gradually curving inwards. 



Indefinite: not uniform in number, or too numerous to mention (over 12). 



Indefinite or Indeterminate Inflorescence: p. 77. 



Indehiscent: not splitting open ; i. e. not dehiscent; p. 127. 



Indigenous: native to the country. 



Individuals: p. 173. 



Jndiiplicate: with the edges turned inwards ; p. 109. 



Indusium: the shield or covering of a fruit-dot of a Fern. 



Inferior: growing below some other organ; p. 104, 121. 



Inflated: turgid and bladdery. 



Inflexed: bent inwards. 



Inflorescence : the arrangement of flowers on the stem ; p. 76. 



Infra-axillary : situated beneath the axil. 



Infundibulifonn or Infundibular: funnel-shaped; p. 102, fig. 199. 



Innate (anther) : attached by its base to the very apex of the filament; p. 113. 



Innovation: an incomplete young shoot, especially in Mosses. 



Inorganic Constituents, p. 160. 



