400 GLOSSARY OP TERMS. 



Gnawed, irregularly notched at the margin. 

 Granulated root, consisting of small bulbs or scales, f. 9. 

 Grooved, marked with parallel deep lines. 



Habit of plants, their peculiar appearance. 

 Hair-shaped, long, cylindrical and slender. 

 Hairs, slender bodies of various degrees of fineness, covering the 



surface of plants. 



Hairy, covered with long, soft, straight hairs. 

 Halberd-shaped, triangular, hollowed out at the base and sides, 



with a projecting part on each side, f. 46. 

 Head, flowers arranged sessile in a globular form, f. 101. 

 Heart-shaped, egg-shaped with the base hollowed out, f. 44. 

 Hemispherical, of the form of a half- sphere, f. 114. 

 Herbaceous, soft, in opposition to woody. 

 Hoary, covered with close, extremely fine, white hairs. 

 Hollow stem or leaves, cylindrical, with an internal cavity. 

 Horizontal branches or leaves, standing off at right angles. 

 Husk, the corolla of grasses, f. 116, b. 



Imbricated leaves, or other organs, one lying over the other, f. 28, 

 113, 114. 



Immersed, under water. 



Incompete flower, when the corolla is wanting. 



Incumbent anther, lying across the top of the filament, f. 134. 



Indigenous plants, those growing wild in a country. 



Inflected, bent inwards. 



Inflorescence, the manner in which the flowers are arranged. 



Interruptedly pinnate, with smaller leaflets between the larger. 



Inversely egg-shaped or heart-shaped, with the broad end outermost. 



Involucre, a kind of bractea, consisting of several leaves, at a dis- 

 tance from the flower, f. 88. 



Involute, rolled inwards at the margin, f. 66. 



Irregular corolla, not uniform in its general form, f. 123, 124. 



Jagged, irregularly cut at the margin, f, 63. 



Jointed, composed of distinct pieces united by intermediate parts. 



Keel of a papilionaceous corolla, the lower boat-shaped piece, f. 131. 

 Keeled leaves or other parts, with a longitudinal prominence at the 



back, f. 71. 



Kernel, the seed of a nut. 



Kidney-shaped, roundish, with the base hollowed out, f. 43. 

 Kneed straw, with the joints enlarged and bent like a knee, f.18. 

 Knobbed stigma, of a somewhat globular form. 

 Knotty, leaving knots at intervals. 



Laciniate, deeply cut into at the margin. 

 Lamina, the expanded part of a petal, f. 125, b. 

 Lance-shaped, oblong and narrow, tapering towards each end, f. 40. 

 Lateral anther, attached to the side of the filament. 

 Lateral leaves, from the sides of the stem or branches. 

 Leaf-stalk, the stalk of a leaf. 

 Leathery, thin but tough. 



Legume, a dry elongated seed-vessel, formed of two oblong valves, 

 without a longitudinal part, f. 140. 



