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Glarliate, sword-shaped, as the leaves of Iris. 



Glands, small cellular organs which secrete oily or aromatic or other products; the}' 



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 {(jlandular hairs, (jc), as in the Sweetbrier and Sundew. The name is 



also given to any small swellings, ike, whether they secrete anything or not; so 



that the word is loosely used. 

 Glandular, Glandukse, furnished with glands, or gland-like. 

 67rt?ts (Gland), the acorn or mast of Oak and similar fruits. 

 Glareuse, growing in gi-avel. 

 Glaucescent, slightly glaucous, or bluish-gray. 

 Glaucous, covered with a bloom, viz. with a fine white powder of wax that rubs off, 



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

 Globose, spherical in form, or nearly so. Globular, nearh' globose. 

 Glocliidinte, or Glochideous, (bristles) barbed; tipped with barbs, or with a double 



hooked point. 

 Glomerate, closely aggregated into a dense cluster. 

 Glomerule, a dense head-like cluster, 77. 



Glossolof/y, the department of botany in which technical terms are explained. 

 Glumacetms, glume-like, or glume-bearing. 

 Glume; Glumes are the husks or doral coverings of Grasses, or, particular!}-, the 



outer husks or bracts of each spikelet. 

 Glumelles, the inner husks of Grasses. 

 Gonophwe, a stipe below stamens, 113, 

 Gossypine, cottony, flocculent. 

 Gracilis, Latin for slender. 

 Grain, see Caryojisis, 1-21. 

 Gramineous, grass-like. 



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

 Graveolenl, heavj'-scented. 

 Griseous, gray or bluish-gray. 

 Growth, 129." 



Grumous, or Grumose, formed of coarse clustered grains. 

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

 Gymnos, Greek for naked, as 



Gymnocarpous, naked-fruited. Gymnospermous, naked-seeded, 109. 

 Gymnospermous f/ynceiiiun, 109. 

 GymnospermtB, or Gymnospei-mous Plants, 18-3. 

 Gynandrous, with stamens borne on, i, e. united with, the pistil, 99. 

 Gynoecium, a name for tlie pistils of a flower tjiken altogether, 105, 

 Gynobase, a depressed receptacle or support of the pistil or carpels, 114. 

 Gynophore, a stalk raising a pistil above the stamens, 113. 

 Gynosteyium, a sheath around ]iistils, of whatever nature. 

 Gynoelemiiim, name of the column in Orchids, &c., consisting of style and stigma 



with stamens combined. 

 Gyrate, coiled or moving circularly. 

 ilyrosc, strongly bent to and fro. 



Habit, the general aspect of a jilant, or its mode of growth. 

 Habitat, the situation or country in wliiili a plant grows in a wiiil state. 

 Hairs, hair-like growths on the surface of jilants. 

 Hairy, beset with hairs, especially longish ones. 

 Halberd-shaped, see hastate, 53, 



Haired, when appearing as if one half of tlie l)ody were cut awav. 

 Hamate, or Haviose, hooked; the end of a slender body bent round. 

 Hamutose, bearing a small hook; a diminutive of the last. 



Haplo-, in Greek compounds, single; as Itaplostemonous, having only one series of 

 stamens. 



