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PLEXUOSE. Having a bent or wavy direction. 



FLORETS. Little flowers. A term chiefly ap- 

 plied to those which were formerly called 

 compound flowers. 



Fuscous. Of a blackish brown color. 

 FUSIFORM. Radish or carrot-shaped. 

 GIBBOUS. Swelled out commonly on one side. 

 GLABROUS. Smooth. 

 GLANDULOSE. Having small glands on the 



surface. 

 GLAUCOUS. Smooth, of a sea-green color ; as 



the leaf of the holly, (fee. 



GLOBOSE. Round or spherical, like the orange. 

 GLUME. A part of the floral envelopes of grass. 



HASTATE. Formed like the head of an ancient 

 halbert. 



HEPATIC. Liver shaped. 



HERBACEOUS. Plants whose stems perish annu- 

 ally with the fall of the leaf 



HIRSUTE. Rough with hairs. 



HISPID. When the spines on the surface of a 

 leaf are not very visible to the naked eye. 



HOARY. Covered over with white down. 

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