GLOSSARY. 



Glands: small cellular organs which secrete oily or aromatic or other pro- 

 ducts : they are sometimes sunk in the leaves or rind, as in the Orange, 

 Prickly Ash, &c. ; sometimes on the surface as small projections ; some- 

 times raised on hairs or bristles (glandular hairs, $*c.), as in the Sweet- 

 brier and Sundew. The name is also given to any small swellings, &c., 

 whether they secrete anything or not. 



Glandular, Glandulose : furnished with glands, or gland-like. 



Glans ( Gland) : the acorn or mast of Oak and similar fruits. 



Glaucescent : slightly glaucous, or bluish-gray. 



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

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



Globose: spherical in form, or nearly so. Gldbular: nearly globose. 



Glochidiate (hairs or bristles) ; barbed ; tipped with barbs, or with a double 

 hooked point. 



Gldmerate : closely aggregated into a dense cluster. 



Gldmerule : a dense head like cluster. 



Glumaceous : glume-like, or glume bearing. 



Glume: Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, 

 the outer husks or bracts of each spikelet. 



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



Grumous or Grumose : formed of coarse clustered grains. 



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



Gyrnnocdrpous : naked-fruited. 



Gymnospermous : naked-seeded. 



Gyndndrous : with stamens borne on, i. e. united with, the pistil. 



Gyncecium : a name for the pistils of a flower taken altogether. 



Gynobase ; a particular receptacle or support of the pistils, or of the carpels 

 of a compound ovary, as in Geranium. 



Gynophore : a stalk raising a pistil above the stamens, as in the Cleome 

 Family. 



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



Habitat : the situation in which a plant grows in a wild state. 



Hairs : hair-like projections or appendages of the surface of plants. 



Hairy: beset with hairs, especially longish ones. 



Halberd-shaped or Halberd-headed : see hastate. 



Halved : when appearing as if one half of the body were cut away. 



Hamate or Hamose: hooked ; the end of a slender body bent round. 



Hdmulose : bearing a small hook; a diminutive of the last. 



Hastate or Hasti/e : shaped like a halberd ; furnished with a spreading lobe 

 on each side at the base. 



Heart-shaped : of the shape of a heart as commonly painted. 



Helicoid: coiled like a helix or snail-shell. 



Helmet : the upper sepal of Monkshood in this shape. 



Herni- (in compounds from the Greek) : half ; e. g. Hemispherical, &c. 



Hemicarp : half-fruit, or one carpel of an Umbelliferous plant. 



Herbaceous : of the texture of common herbage ; not woody. 



Hermaphrodite (flower) : having both stamens and pistils in the same blos- 

 som ; same as perfect. 



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