GLOSSARY. XIX 



Fugacious ; soon falling off. 



Funnel-shaped-, tubular below, but gradually enlarging upwards. 



Furcate; forked. 



Fusiform ; spindle-shaped ; thick, tapering to each end. 



Gamosepalous yamopetalous; when the sepals or petals are 

 joined by their edges so as apparently to form one. 



Gennen ; the ovary. 



Gibbous ; swollen on one side. 



Glabrous ; without hairs or other clothing. 



Gland ; a wartlike cellular secreting organ usually raised above 

 the surface. 



Glandular ; having glands. 



Glandular-hairy ; having hairs tipped with glands. 



Glandular-serrate ; having short teeth tipped with glands. 



Glaucous ; green with a whitish-blue lustre. 



Globose ; round like a globe. 



Glumes ; the scales enclosing the spikelet of flowers in Grasses ; 

 the imbricate bracts enclosing the flowers of Sedges. 



Glumiferous ; having flowers covered by glumes. 



Granular] covered with minute projecting points. 



Habit ; the general appearance of a plant. 



Haft ; a winged leaf-stalk ; the linear part of a spathulate leaf 



or petal. 

 Hastate ; enlarged at the base into two lobes directed nearly 



horizontally. 

 Head a close terminal collection of flowers surrounded by an 



involucre. 



Helmet ; the hooded upper part of a flower. 

 Helmet-shaped ; arched and concave like a helmet. 

 Herbaceous-, the parts of plants which are not woody; also 



organs, or parts of them, of a green colour. 

 Hermaphrodite ; having both sexes in one flower. 

 Hilum or hile ; the mark on a seed which indicates its place of 



attachment. 



Hispid] covered with stiff' hairs. 

 Hoary ; with greyish- white down. 

 Hooded ; formed into a hood at the end. 

 Horizontal ; spreading at right angles to their support, as 



leaves on a stem. 

 Hybrid ; a mule. 

 Hypoc/ynous ; springing from below the base of the ovary and 



not attached to the calyx. 



Imbricate ; arranged over each other like the tiles of a roof. 

 Imparipinnate ; pinnate with a single terminal leaflet. 



