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Homomdrphous : all of one shape. 



Homotropous or Homtitropal (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. 



Humifase : spread over the surface of the ground. 



Hyaline : transparent, or partly so. 



Ift/brid: a cross-breed between two allied species. 



Hypocrate'riform : salver-shaped; p. 101, fig. 202, 208. 



Hypogo&an : produced under ground. 



Hypo'gynous: 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 

 Horsechesnut (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. 



Immarginate : 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. 



Inequilateral: 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 the 

 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. 



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



Indusium: the shield or covering of a fruit-dot of a Fern. (Manual, p ,588.) 



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. 



Infundibuliform 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. 



