GLOSSARY. 



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Glandular, bearing glands ; or 



gland-like. 



Glaucous, whitened with a bloom. 

 Globose, nearly spherical. 

 Glumaceous, having glumes ; or 



glume-like. 

 Glume, a chaffy bract near a 



grass-flower. 

 Granular, composed of small 



grain -like pieces. 

 Gymnospermous, having seeds 



which are not enclosed in an 



ovary. 

 Gynandrous, of stamens which 



are borne on the style. 



H. 



Habit, the general aspect of a 



plant. 

 Halberd-shaped, with spreading 



lobes at the base. 

 Hastate, the same as halberd- 



sha,ped. 

 Head, a dense cluster of sessile 



flowers on a very short axis. 

 Heart-shaped, with an indenta- 

 tion at the base. 

 Herb, a plant with little or no wood 



in its stem. 

 Herbaceous, having the character 



of an herb ; leaf-like in colour 



and texture. 

 Hilum, the scar showing where a 



seed was attached. 

 Hirsute, pubescent with coarse 



hairs. 



Hispid, with stiff bristly hairs. 

 Hoary, grayish- white with fine 



close pubescence. 

 Hooded, shaped like a hood, 

 j Hypogynous, inserted on the re- 

 ' ceptacle below the ovary, and free 



from the latter. 



I. 



Imbricate, overlapping, as the 

 bracts of the involucre in most 

 composite flowers, having one 

 piece wholly internal and one 

 wholly external, as in the calyx 

 and corolla of many flowers. 



Immersed, wholly under water. 



Incised, sharply cut. 



Included, not at all protruded be- 

 yond the surrounding envelope. 



Indefinite, many in number. 



Indehiscent, not splitting open so 

 as to discharge the contents. 



Indigenous, native. 



Inferior, lower ; outer ; of a calyx 

 when below and free from the 

 ovary ; of an ovary when attached 

 to the calyx. 



Inflorescence, the arrangement 

 of the flowers or flower-clusters. 



Inserted, attached to. 



Introrse, turned inward. 



Involucel, a secondary involucre. 



Involucre, a circle of bracts below 

 a flower or flower-cluster. 



Involute, rolled inward. 

 Irregular, with parts differing in 

 size or shape. 



K. 



Keel, a central lougitudinal ridge ; 

 the two united petals in the front 

 of a papilionaceous flower. 



Kidney-shaped, of a leaf with 

 large rounded lobes at the base. 



L. 



Labiate, having two lips. 

 Laciniate, cut into narrow pointed 



lobes. 



Lamella, a thin flat plate. 

 Lanceolate, rather narrow and 



tapering from the base to the 



point. 

 Lateral, referring to or borne on 



the side. 

 Lax, loose. 

 Leaflet, one of the pieces of the 



blade of a compound leaf. 

 Legume, a dehiscent fruit of a 



single carpel, which opens as a 



rule by two seams. 

 Lenticular, shaped like a double- 

 convex lens. 



Ligulate, strap-shaped. 

 Limb, the spreading part of a petal 



or corolla, etc. 

 Linear, long and narrow, with 



both ends alike or nearly so. 

 Lobe, say segment of an organ. 



