

GLOSSARY. 





Herbarium. Collection of dried plants. 

 Herbist. One who collects and sells 

 plants. 



Hilum. Eye or mark on a seed at the 

 place of its attachment to the seed- 

 vessel. 



Holeraceous. Suitable for culinary pur- 

 poses ; derived from holus, signify- 

 ing pot-herbs. A natural order of 

 Linnaeus, called holeracece, including 

 plants used for the table, or in do- 

 mestic affairs- 

 Homogeneous, Consisting of the same 

 nature. 



Hybernalis. Growing in winter. 



Hybrid. A vegetable produced by the 

 mixture of two species : the seeds of 

 hybrids are not fertile. 



Hydrate, relating to, or composed in 

 part of water. 



Hydrogen, a simple gaseous element 

 in its purest state, but is combined 

 with a very large number of solid 

 and liquid substances ; it composes 

 85 of 100 parts of water. 



Irritability. Power of being excited so 

 as to produce contraction ; belong, 

 ing to vegetables as well as animals. 



Inspisated, thick state of liquids j in- 

 spisate, to thicken. 



Integument, a covering, an envelop. 



Interlacing, to intermix, to weave to- 

 gether. 



er of Inanition, emptiness of body, exhaus- 

 tion. 



Jagged. Irregularly divided and sub- 

 divided. 



Joints. Knots or rings in culms, pods, 

 leaves, etc. 



Keel. Under lip of a papilionaceous 

 flower. Keeled. Shaped like the keel 

 of a boat. 



Imbricated. Lying over, like scales, or 

 shingles of a roof. 



Imperfect. Wanting the stamen or 

 pistil. 



Incomplete. Flowers destitute of a ca- 

 lyx or corolla. 



Incipiency, begining, first state of a 

 thing. 



Inorganic, not organized, irregular 

 without deffinite arrangements 

 parts. 



Indigenous. Native, growing wild in 

 a country. (Some exotics, after a 

 time, spread and appear as if indig- 

 enous.) 



Infusoria. Microscopic animalculae, 

 generally found in infusions of de- 

 decayed animal and vegetable mat- 

 ter. 



Inflexed. Incurved, bent inwards. 



Inflorescence. (From infloresco, to flou- 

 ish.) The manner in which flowers 

 are connected to the plant by the 

 peduncle, as in the whorl, raceme, 

 etc. 



Interruptedly-pinnate. When smaller 

 leafets are interposed among the 

 principal ones. 



Intermittents, fevers occuring at in- 

 tervals. 



Involute. Rolled Inwards. 



Labiate. With lips, as in class Dydy- 

 namia. 



Lactescent. Yielding a juice, usually 

 white like milk, sometimes red, as 

 in the blood-root. 



Lacustris. Growing about lakes. 



Lamellated. In thin plates. Lamina. 

 Broad or flat end of a petal, in dis- 

 tinction from its claw. Expanded 

 part of a leaf. In general, any thin 

 plate or membrane. 



Lanceolate. Spear-shaped, narrow,with 

 both ends acute. 



Larva. The caterpillar state of an in- 

 ir,j sect. 



of Leafet. A partial leaf, part of a com- 

 pound leaf. 



Leaf-stalk. Petiole. 



Legume. A pod or pericarp, having 

 its seed attached to one side or su- 

 ture ; as the pea and bean. Legu- 

 minous. Bearing legumes. 



Liber. Inner bark of plants. Ligneous. 

 Woody. Lignum. Wood. 



Liliaceous. Corolla with 6 petals, 

 spreading from the base. 



Linear. Long and narrow, with par- 

 allel sides, as the leaves of grasses. 



Lip. The under petal in a labiate co- 

 rolla. 



Locomotive, power of changing place, 

 moving, as in walking, etc. 



Lobe. Large division, or distinct por- 

 tion of a leaf or petal. 



Lyrate, Pinnatifid, with a large round- 

 ish leafet at the end. 



Lymphatics, small vessels in the ani- 



