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INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



"Free, not adherent nor adnate, 81, 94. 



Fringed. (See Fimbriate.) 



Frond, an organ which is both stem and 



leaf, as in JJuckmeat, Fern. 

 Froncfescent, bursting into leaf. 

 Fructification, flower and fruit as a whole. 

 Fruit, 38, 143: ripening of, 457. 

 Frutescent, shrubbj' becoming shrubby. 

 Fulcra (roots), 206. 

 Fuliginous, smoky brown, blackish. 

 Fulvous, dull yellowish brown. 

 Funiculus (a little rope), 140. 

 Funnel-form. (See Infundibtiliform), 102. 

 Furcate, forked. Fork-veined, 284. 

 Fitrfuraceous, scurfy. [wise. 



Furrowed, marked with channels length- 

 Fuscous, grayish or blackish brown. 

 Fusiform, spindle-shaped, 203. 



Galea, galeate. 103. 



Gamojjetalce, Monopetahe, 513. 



Gamopetalous. with the petals united, 99. 



Gamophyllous, of united leaves. 



Gamoej)alous, with the sepals united. 



Geminate, twin, two together. [bud). 



Gemmation, state of bud-ding (Latin, gemma, 



Geniculate, bent as the knee (genu). 



Genus, 29. Genera, 498. 



Germ, the ovary. (The term is obsolete.) 



Germination, 188, 454. 



Gibbous, more tumid in a certain place. 



Glabrous, smooth, not hairy, 312. 



Gladiate, sword-shaped, ensiform. 



Gland, glandular, 80, 401. 



Glaus. 155. 



Glaucous, sea-green, bluish, usually with a 



bloom, or whitish powder. 

 Globous. in form nearly spherical. 

 Glomerate, collected into close heads. 

 Glbmerule, 363. 



Glossology, the same as Terminology. 

 Glumes, 108, 349. 

 Glumiferce, 511. 

 Gluten. 445. 



Granular, composed of grains. 

 Grafting. (Fig. 250, e.) 

 Graminoidece, 515. 

 Grand Divisions, 65. 

 Growth is downward, 477. 

 rymnos (a Greek prefix), naked ; as, 

 Gymnospermoiis. with naked seeds. 

 GymnospermcR. Gymno^perms, 510. 

 Gymnosponv, Gymnospores, 517. 

 Gynandroui, 119. 

 Gyncpcium, 123. 

 Gynobase, a process of the toms on and 



around which the carpels are suspended 



(sc. Geranium. Fig. 172). 

 Gyliophore, a produced torua, bearing the 



ovary on its summit. (Fig. 112.) 

 Gyrate, same as Circinate, 255. 

 Gyrous, strongly bent to and fro. 



Habit, the general aspect of a plant. 

 Habitat, the natural locality or place of 



growth of a wild plant. 

 Hairs, 400. Hairy, hirsute. 

 Ifalbert-shaped, hastate. (Fig. 313.) 

 Halved, one-half apparently defici nt. 

 Hastate, with the base-lobes abruptly 



spreading, as in a halbert. 291. 

 Heart-shop,, d, 291 . Heart- wood, 410. 

 fcf 5, herbaceous, 40, 41. 



Herbaceous, green and cellular in texture. 

 Herbarium, 3. 



Hesperidimn. 160. [and pistils. 



Hermaphrodite (flower), with both stamens 

 Heteroctphalous, heads of two sorts in tho 



same plant, some 3 and some $ . 

 Heterogamous, two sorts of flo\\ crs in the 



same head, some $ and some $ . 

 Hexa (Greek numeral), six : as in, 

 Hexagonal. 6-sided or 6-angled. 

 Hexdmerous, tt- parted. 

 Hexandrous, having 6 stamens. 

 Hilum, the eye or scar of the seed, 177, 

 Hirsute, hairy, with rather Ions: hairs, 313. 

 Hispid, bristly with stiff boir, 313. 

 Hoary, frost-colored, grayish-white. 

 Homogamous, head with all the flowen 



alike, as to the stamens and pistils. 

 Honey, Honey-bee, 458. 

 Hood. (See Calyptra. 518.) 

 Hooded. (See Cucullate.) 

 Horny, of the texture of horn. 

 Horlus siccus, the herbarium, 3. 

 Humifuse, spreading on the ground. 

 Hyaline, transparent, or nearly so. 

 Hybrid, a cross-breed between two species. 

 Hyperborean, inhabiting northern regions. 

 Hypo (in Greek compounds), under; as, 

 Hypocrateriform, salver-form, 102. 

 Hypogean, growing under ground. 

 Hypogynous, 95. 119. 



Imbricate, imbricated, 257, 339. 

 Immarginale, having no rim or bordei. 

 Immersed. (See Submersed.) 

 Inaxialroot, 201. 



Incised, divided deeply as if cut, 310. 

 Included, enclosed within, or shorter than 



as the stamens in the corolla. 

 Incrassate, thickened. 

 Incumbent (sc. embryo), 183. 

 Indehiscent, not opening, 148. 

 Indefinite, 118. 



Indigenous, native of a country. 

 Induplicate, 337. 

 Indusium, the shield of the fruit-dot (sorus; 



of a Fern. 



Inferior, lower in position. 

 Inflorescence. 341, etc. 

 Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped, 102. 

 Innate (sc. anther), 114. 

 Inserted, Insertion, refer to the point of 



junction or apparent origin. 

 Integument, a coat or covering. 

 Internode. 220. 



Ltterpc.tiolar, between the petioles. 

 Interruptedly pinnate. 302. (Fig. .358.) 

 Introrse (anthers), turned inward, 114. 

 Involucre, Involncel, 347. 

 Involute, rolled inward, 256. (Fig. 287.) 

 Irregular flowe) s, 83, 101. 



Jointed, having joints, separable pieces. 

 Jugum, a pair ; as bijugcvs. with two paira 

 of leaflets; trijugous, three pairs. 



Keel, Keeled. (See Carinate.) 

 Kidney-shaped. (See Remform, 295.) 

 Kingdoms of Nature, 12-14. 



Labellum. the odd pe.al of i,n Orchid, 101. 



Labiate, lip-shaped, 103. 



Lacerat^ <orn irregularly by deep incisions 



