PLANT NAMES 83 



Gelidus, icy; gemmatus, bearing buds; glaber, 

 smooth; glaucus, bluish-grey; glomeratus, heaped 

 together ; glutinosus, sticky; gracilis, slender ;grandis, 

 large ; gratiosus, favoured ; grains, pleasant ; graveo- 

 lens, strong-smelling. 



Helix, winding; hiemalis, wintry; hirsutus, with 

 stiff hairs ; hirtus, shaggy ; hispidus, rough with hairs ; 

 horridus, bristly ; hortensis, belonging to the garden ; 

 humilis, low; hyperboreus, northern. 



Igneus, fiery ; illustris, renowned ; imherhis, beard- 

 less ; imbricatus, overlapping, like tiles ; immaculatus, 

 unspotted ; incanus, grey ; incarnatus, flesh-coloured ; 

 incisus, divided ; inermis, unarmed (without thorns) ; 

 inflatus, swollen; insignis, remarkable; integer, 

 entire; intumescens, swelling; involucratus, with 

 volucre, or envelope round flowers; iridescens, 

 shining with various colours. 



Maxinius, greatest; melano-, black; melleus, 

 honeyed; micans, gUttering; mirabilis, wonderful; 

 mitis, mild, ripe; mollis, soft; mucronatus, having a 

 sharp point; multus, much, many; muralis, on the 

 wall; muscoides, moss-like; mutabilis, changeable. 



Nanus, dwarf; neglectus, disregarded; nemorosus, 

 nemoralis, of the grove; niger, black; nitens, nitidus, 

 shining; nivalis, snowy, white; nodosus, knotty; 

 nudiis, naked; nutans, nodding. 



Obconicus, shape of an inverted cone ; occidentalis, 

 western ; ochroleucus, yellow white ; oculatus, having 



