xx FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



FASCICLED, or fasciculate, in bundles or tufts. 



FELTED, tomentose. 



FILAMENT, the slender stalk of a stamen. 



FILIFORM, long and slender or thread-like. 



FISTULAR, cylindrical and hollow, like many umbelliferous stems. 



FLACCID, limp or weak. 



FLEXUOSE, bent more or less in a zigzag. 



FLOCCOSE, with little tufts like wool. 



FOLLICLE, a carpel or seed capsule dehiscing longitudinally at the inner suture ; 



e.g. Hellebore, Paeony. 

 FREE, not united. 



FRUIT, the seed or group of seeds with its whole covering. 

 FRUTICOSE, shrubby. 

 FUGACIOUS, soon falling off. 

 FUSIFORM, spindle-shaped, thick, tapering to each end. 



GALL, a growth caused by an insect or fungus; e.g. an " Oak apple". 



GAMOPETALOUS flowers have the petals all united, as opposed to polypetalous. 



GENUS (plural genera), a group of species of greater or less affinity. 



GERMEN, the ovary. 



GIBBOUS, swollen at the side. 



GLABROUS, without hairs. 



GLAND, an organ of secretion. 



GLANDULAR HAIRS are those with enlarged apices containing a secretion, as in 



Drosera or Inula viscosa. 



GLAUCOUS, covered with a pale bluish-green bloom. 

 GLOBOSE, spherical. 



GLUME, the scale or bract which encloses the spikelet in Grasses and Sedges. 

 GLUMELLA or GLUMULE, the bract which forms the exterior covering of each 



flower of a spikelet in Grasses. 

 GRANULAR, covered with minute projecting points. 

 GYMNOSPERM, a flowering plant whose ovules are not enclosed in carpels. The 



ConifercB are the chief Gymnosperms. 

 GYNOSCIUM, the carpels or female organs of a flower considered as a whole. 



HABIT, the outward form, shape, or build of a plant. 



HABITAT, the kind of locality in which a plant grows. Not the locality itself, 



which may be called a station. 

 HASTATE, halbert-shaped, enlarged at base into two lobes directed nearly 



horizontally. 



HERBACEOUS, not woody. 



HERMAPHRODITE, or bisexual flowers, have both stamens and pistils present. 

 HISPID, bristly, thickly covered with stiff hairs. 

 HOARY, with greyish-white down. 



HONEY, the nectar secreted by many flowers to attract insects. 

 HUMUS, organic matter in the soil, more or less decomposed. 

 HYBRID, a cross between two species. 

 HYPOGYNOUS flowers have the calyx and corolla borne on the receptacle, and the 



ovary is superior. 



IMBRICATE, overlapping like the tiles of a roof, such as the leaves of Gentiana 



imbricata, or involucral bracts of a Centaurea. 

 IMPARIPINNATE, pinnate with a single terminal leaflet. 

 INCISE, deeply cut. 



INDEHISCENT fruits are those which do not open to allow the seed to escape. 

 INDIGENOUS, native, not introduced. 

 INFERIOR, applied to the ovaries of flowers whose calyx-tube encloses the ovary ; 



cf. Superior. 

 INFLORESCENCE, the manner in which flowers are arranged on the main stem or 



on lateral branches. 



