GLOSSARY. 



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Filiform, cylindrical and slender, 

 like a thread. 



Flaccid, bending without elasticity. 



Fleshy, firm but of succulent texture. 



Floret, one of the little flowers in a 

 head, as in Compositae. 



Flosculous, when the corolla of a 

 floret is tubular. 



Flower, the apparatus destined for 

 the production of seed, and ne- 

 cessarily including one or other, 

 or both, of the sexual organs. 



Foliaceous, of the nature of a leaf. 



Follicle, a one-valved inflated peri- 

 carp, opening by a suture along 

 one of the sides to which the seeds 

 are attached. 



Forked, separating into two distinct 

 branches, more or less apart. 



Foveolate, impressed with small 

 holes or depressions. 



Fringed, clothed with hair-like ap- 

 pendages or cilia on the margin. 



Fugacious, soon falling off or perish- 

 ing, as the calyx of poppies. 



Funnel-shaped, tubular, small below 

 and widening upwards. 



Furcate, forked. 



Furrowed, marked by depressed 

 lines. 



Germen, the same as Ovary; the 

 base of the pistil, containing the 

 ovules. 



Germination, the act by which seeds 

 begin to grow. 



Gibbous, convex as though swollen. 



Glabrous, wholly destitute of pubes- 

 cence. 



Gland, a secreting organ of cellular 

 tissue, sometimes sunk or some- 

 times elevated. 



Glaucous, dull green with a pecu- 

 liar whitish-blue lustre. 



Globular, nearly spherical. 



Glume, the outermost husks of the 



floral envelopes of grasses. 

 Glumaceous, resembling the dry 



scale-like glumes of grasses. 

 Granulated, covered with, or com- 

 posed of, small tubercles resem- 

 bling grains. 



Granule, a small grain ; also a small 

 wort-like appendage on the calyx 

 of certain species of dock. 



Gynandrous, having the stamens and 

 style coherent into a common 

 body. 



Hair, capillary expansions of cellu- 

 lar tissue, which coat the surface 

 of various parts of many plants. 



Hastate, shaped like the head of a 

 halbert, the base diverging on each 

 side into an acute lobe. 



Herbaceous, not woody; any por- 

 tion of a plant which is more 

 particularly green and succulent. 



Hermaphrodite, where both stamens 

 and pistil occur in the same flower. 



Hiemal, belonging to winter. 



Hirsute, hairy. 



Hispid, hairy, the hairs long and 

 rigid. 



Hoary, greyish-white. 



Horizontal, when a plane surface 

 lies perpendicularly to the axis of 

 the body which supports it, as 

 most leaves. 



Horny, of a hard close texture, re- 

 sembling horn. 



Hypocrateriform, that form (of co- 

 rolla) in which the tube is long and 

 cylindrical, and the limb flat, 

 spreading at right angles to it. 



Hypogynous, seated below the base 

 of the ovary, but not attached to 

 the calyx. 



