GLOSSARY. 



Galeatum labinm, the lip of a flower shaped like an helmet. 



Geminae stipule, stipulae growing in pairs. 



Geniinatus pcdunculus, double footstalks growing from the 

 same point. 



Gemma, a bud, an hybernaculum on the ascending caudex. 



Gemmatio, a young bud. 



Gemmiparus, bearing buds. 



Genera plantarwn, genera of plants, the second subdivision 

 in the Linnaean system ; it comprehends an assemblage of 

 species, similar in their parts of fructification, under the 

 same class and order. 



Geniculatus caulis, culmus, peduncidus, a jointed stalk, or 

 footstalk of a. flower. 



Genicula, little joints. 



Germen, a sprout or bud, the base of the pistillum, the ru- 

 diment of the fruit yet in embryo. 



G ibbum folium, bunching out, or gouty* 



Glaber, smooth, having an even surface. 



Gladiata siliqtta, a sword-shaped pod. 



Glandulae, a gland, or secretory vessel. 



Glandulifera scabrities, a kind of bristly roughness on the 

 surface of some plants, on which there are minute glands 

 at the extremity of each bristle. 



Glareosis/oc is, in gravelly places,\vhere plants delight in gravel. 



Glaucophylkis, a blush, or azure coloured leaf. 



Globosa radix, a round root. 



Globularis scabrities, a species of glandular roughness scarce 

 visible to the naked eye, the small grains of which are ex- 

 actly globular. 



Glochoides, the small points of the pubes of plants. Lin- 

 naeus applies this term, only to the hami triglochoides, 

 with three. hooked points. 



Glomerata spica, flowers crowded together in a globular form. 



Gluma, a husk or chaff, a species of calyx peculiar to corn 

 and grasses. 



Glutinositas, like glue or paste. 



Gramma-, grasses, one of the seven families of the vegetable 

 kingdom. 



Granulata radix, a root consisting of many little knobs, like 

 seeds or grain, attached to one another by small strings, 

 as in Saxifraga grunulata. 



Gymnospermia, naked-seeded, the first order of the class 

 Didynamia. v 



Gynandria, when the male and female parts are joined toge- 

 ther, the twelfth class in the Linnaean system. 



