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GLOSSARY 



Excurrent. Projecting beyond the 

 apex; or a tree trunk continued to 

 the very top. 



Exserted. Protruding out of, as the 

 stamens out of the corolla. 



Extrorse. Turned outward. 



Falcate. Curved like a hand sickle. 



Fascicle. A close cluster. 



Fascicled. Growing in a bundle or 

 tuft. 



Fastigiate (branches). Close, parallel. 



Favose. Honeycombed. 



Fertile. Fruit-bearing; or pollen- 

 bearing anthers. 



Filament. The stalk of a stamen; 

 any slender thread-shaped append- 

 age. 



Filiform. Thread-shaped. 



Fimbriate. Fringed. 



Flabelliform. Fan-shaped. 



Floccose. Composed of or bearing 

 tufts of woolly or long and soft 

 hairs. 



Foliaceous. Leaflike. 



Follicle. A simple pod, opening down 

 the inner suture. 



Foveate. Deeply pitted. 



Foveolate. Diminutive of foveate. 



Free. Not united with any other 

 parts. 



Fringed. The margin beset with slen- 

 der appendages, bristles, etc. 



Fruit. The seed-bearing structure of 

 a plant. 



Fugacious. Soon falling off or perish- 

 ing. 



Fulvous. Tawny; dull yellow with 

 gray. 



Fusiform = Spindle-shaped. 



Galea. A hooded or helmet-shaped 

 portion of some perianths. 



Gamopetalous = Monopetalous = Sym- 

 petalous. Petals united into one 

 piece. 



Geminate. In pairs. 



Geniculate. Bent abruptly, like a 

 knee. 



Gibbous. More swollen at one place 

 or on one side than the other. 



Glabrate. Becoming glabrous with 

 age, or almost glabrous. 



Glabrous. Smooth, having no hairs, 

 bristles, or other pubescence. 



Gland. A secreting surface or struc- 

 ture; any protuberance or append- 

 age having the appearance of such an 

 organ. 



Glaucous. Covered with a fine white 

 powder that rubs off, like that on a 

 fresh plum. 



Globose. Spherical or nearly so. 



Glochidiate (hairs or bristles). Barbed ; 

 tipped with barbs, or with a double 

 hooked point. 



Glomerate. Closely aggregated into a 

 dense cluster. 



Glomerule. A dense headlike cluster. 



Glume. The chaff of grasses, in this 

 book the outer husks or bracts of 

 each spikelet. 



Gymnosperms. The great group of 

 seed plants with ovules and seeds 

 not inclosed in an ovary. 



Gynobase. An enlargement or pro- 

 longation of the receptacle bearing 

 the ovary. 



Gynoecium. The whole set of pistils. 



Habitat. Conditions under which a 

 plant grows. 



Hastate. Like an arrowhead, but 

 with the basal lobes pointing out- 

 ward nearly at right angles. 



Hemi-. Half. 



Herb. A plant with no persistent 

 woody stem above ground. 



Herbaceous. With the texture of 

 common herbage; not woody nor 

 leathery. 



Hermaphrodite (flower) = Perfect. 



Heterogamous. With 2 or more kinds 

 of flowers as to their stamens and 

 pistils. 



Hirsute. Hairy with stiffish or beard- 

 like hairs. 



Hispid. Bristly ; beset with stiff hairs. 



