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Geminate : twin ; in pairs ; as the flowers of Linnsea. 



Gemma : a bud. 



Gemmation : the state of budding, or the arrangement of parts in the bud. 



Gemmule : a small bud ; the buds of Mosses ; the plumule, p. 6. 



Geniculate : beiit abruptly, like a knee (genu), as many stems. 



Genus : a kind ; a rank above species ; p. 175, 176. 



Generic Names, p. 178. Generic Character, p. 181. 



Geographical Botany : the study of plants in their geographical relations, p. 3. 



Germ : a growing point ; a young bud ; sometimes the same as embryo ; p. 136. 



Germen : the old name for ovary. 



Germination: the development of a plantlet from the seed; p. 5, 137. 



Gibbous : more tumid at one place or on one side than the other. 



Glabrate : becoming glabrous with age, or almost glabrous. 



Glabrous : smooth, i. e. having no hairs, bristles, or other pubescence. 



Gladiate: sword-shaped; as the leaves of Iris, fig. 134. 



Glands: small cellular organs which secrete oily or aromatic or other products: 

 they are sometimes sunk in the leaves or rind, as in the Orange, Prickly 

 Ash, &c. ; sometimes on the surface as small projections ; sometimes raised 



on hairs or bristles (glandular hairs, frc.), as in the Sweetbricr and Sun- 

 dew. The name is also given to any small swellings, &c., whether they 



secrete anything or not. 



Glandular, Glandulose : furnished with glands, or gland-like. 

 Glans ( Gland) : the acorn or mast of Oak and similar fruits. 

 Glaucescent : slightly glaucous, or bluish-gray. 

 Glaucous : covered with a bloom, viz. with a fine white powder that rubs off, like 



that on a fresh plum, or a cabbage-leaf. 



Globose : spherical in form, or nearly so. Gldbular : nearly globose. 

 Glochidiate (hairs or bristles): barbed; tipped with barbs, or with a double 



hooked point. 



Gldmerate : closely aggregated into a dense cluster. 

 Gldmerule: a dense head-like cluster; p. 83. 



Glossology : the department of Botany in which technical terms are explained. 

 Glumaceous : glume-like, or glume-bearing. 

 Glume : Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, 



the outer husks or bracts of each spikclct. (Manual, p. 535.) 

 Glumelles : the inner husks, or paleai, of Grasses. 

 Gluten: a vegetable product containing nitrogen; p. 165. 

 Granular: composed of grains. Granule: a small grain. 

 Growth, p. 138. 



Grumous or Grumose : formed of coarse clustered grains. 

 Guttate : spotted, as if by drops of something colored. 

 Gymnocdrpous : naked-fruited. 

 Gymnospennous : naked-seeded; p. 121. 



Gymnospe'nnce, or Gymnospennous Plants, p. 184 ; Manual, p. xxiii. 

 Gyndndrous : with stamens borne on, i. e. united with, the pistil; p. Ill, fig. 226. 

 Gynoicium : a name for the pistils of a flower taken altogether. 

 Gynobase : a particular receptacle or support of the pistils, or of the carpels of 



a compound ovary, as in Geranium, fig. 277, 278, 

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