Glandula 



Glucase 



shaped like a gland ; Gland'ula, 

 Gland'ule, a viscid gland in Orchids 

 and Asclepiads, which holds the 

 pollen-masses in their place ; the 

 retinaculum ; glan'dular, possessing 

 glands ; ~ Disk, = GLANDULA ; ~ 

 Hair, an epidermal appendage, the 

 end of which is usually enlarged, 

 and contains a special secretion ; <~ 

 Wood'y Tis'sue, coniferous pitted 

 tissue ; Glandula'tion, -tio, the 

 arrangement of the glands on a 

 plant ; glandulif erous, -nts, gland- 

 bearing ; glan'dulose, glandulo'siis, 

 gland'ulous, glandular; glan'dulo- 

 so-serra'tus, having serrations tip- 

 ped or bordered with glands ; Glaus 

 (Lat.), a fruit one-seeded by abor- 

 tion, or a few-seeded dry inferior 

 indehiscent pericarp seated within 

 a cupular involucre, as the fruit of 

 the oak, nut, etc. 



gla'real (glarea, gravel), term em- 

 ployed by H. C. Watson for those 

 plants which grow on dry exposed 

 ground, chiefly gravel or sand j 

 gla'reose, glareo'sus, frequenting 

 gravel. 



glauces'cent, glauces'cens (y\avKbs, 

 bluish grey), becoming sea-green ; 

 glaucl'nus (Lat.), bluish sea-green ; 

 glau'cous, -cus (1), sea-green ; (2) 

 covered with a bloom as a plum or 

 cabbage-leaf. 



Gle'ba (Lat., a clod), the chambered 

 sporogenous tissue within a sporo- 

 phore of Phalloideae ; Gle'bula (1) 

 a synonym of GLEBA ; (2) the 

 sporangia of certain Fungi, as 

 Nidularia ; (3) a rounded elevation 

 on the thallus of Lichens. 



Gli'adin (7X^0, glue), vegetable glue or 

 gelatin forming part of gluten ; 

 Gli'an, the alcohol-soluble part of 

 gluten. 



Gli'ding-growth = SLIDING GROWTH. 



glit'tering, lustre from a polished sur- 

 face which is not uniform. 



glo'bate (globus, a sphere), globular ; 

 Globes, Grew's term for pollen- 

 grains ; Glo'bi spermatic!, spores 

 of some Fungi (Lindley) ; Glo'boids 

 (eTSos, like), rounded masses of 



mineral matter in proteid grains ; 

 glo'bose, globo'sus, nearly spherical; 

 glob'ular, globula'ris, spheroidal 

 in shape ; Glob'ule, the spheri- 

 cal antheridium in Characeae ; 

 Glob'ulet, used by Grew for (1) a 

 glandular hair, (2) a pollen-grain ; 

 Glob'ulin, (1) "round transparent 

 granules in cellular tissue, consti- 

 tuting fecula " (Henslow) ; (2) the 

 chief ingredient in aleurone or 

 protein granules, occurring amor- 



Ehous or as crystalloids ; (3) in 

 ichens = Chlorophyll (Olivier) ; 

 Glob'ulus (Lat. a little globe), (1) 

 used by Necker for the fruit of 

 Hepaticae ; (2) the deciduous shield 

 in some Lichens ; soredia. 



Glo'chid, Glochid'imn (y\wxk, an an- 

 gular end or barb), (1) a barbed 

 hair or bristle ; (2) a similar struc- 

 ture on the massulae of certain 

 Cryptogams which act as organs 

 of attachment to a macrospore ; 

 glochid'eous, -eus, glochid'iate, glo- 

 chidia'tus, pubescent with barbed 

 bristles ; Glo'chis, a barb. 



Gloeoli'chenes (7X010?, sticky), For- 

 sell's name for homoeomerous 

 Lichens, asCollemacei, Ascolichenes 

 with gonidia belonging to the Chro- 

 ococcaceae ; Gloe'ophyte (0vro>, 

 a plant), Gobi's name for THALLO- 

 PHYTE ; Gloiocar'pus (napiros, fruit), 

 a tetraspore (Lindley). 



Glonie (glomus, a ball), a rounded 

 head of flowers ; glom'erate, glom- 

 era'tus, agglomerate, collected into 

 heads ; Glom'erule, Glomeru'lus, (1) 

 a cluster of capitula in a common 

 involucre, as Echinops ; (2) a SOKE- 

 DIUM ; glomerulif erous (fero, I 

 bear), bearing clusters of coral-like 

 excrescences; glomer'ulose, having 

 glomerules ; Glom'us J = GLOME- 

 RULE. 



Glossology (yXwffo-a, a tongue, \6yos, 

 discourse), the explanation of tech- 

 nical terms ; Glos'sopode, Glosso- 

 pod'ium (irovs, iroSos, a foot), the 

 sheathing base of the leaves in 

 Isoetes -, adj. glossopodlal. 



Glu'case (7X^1)5, sweet), an enzyme 



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