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GLOSSARY. 



frondose; leafy,or with leaf like appendages. 



Fructification ; the flower and fruit, with 

 their parts. 



fruit ; the mature ovary or seed-vessel, 

 and its contents. 



Fruteacent; becoming shrubby, or hard and 

 woody. 



Fruticose; shrub-like, or shrubby. 



Fruticulose ; like a little shrub. 



Fugacious; fleeting ; of short duration. 



Fulvous; tawny, fox or tan-colored. 



Fungous; of rapid growth and soft tex 

 ture, like the fungi. 



Fun'iculus ; the little cord by which seeds 

 are attached to the placenta. 



Funnel form; tubular below, and expand- 

 ing above like a funnel. 



Furcate; forked. 



Furfurdceous ; scaly, or scurfy, like bran 

 or dandruff. 



Fuscous: greyish brown, or deep brown, 

 with a tinge of green. 



Fusiform; spindle-shaped; terete and ta- 

 pering to a point. 



Galea; a helmet ; the arched upper lip of 

 a ringent corolla. 



Gdleate; helmeted; resembling a casque, 

 or helmet. 



Gamopetalous; having the petals all more 

 or less united, forming what is called 

 (rather incorrectly) a monopetalous co 

 rolla. 



Gamosepalous; having the sepals all more 

 or less united, forming a monosepalous 

 calyx. 



Geminate ; in pairs. 



Generic; pertaining or relating to a genus 



Genlculate; forming an angle at the joints, 

 like a bent knee. 



Genus (plural genera); a group of species 

 which agree with each other in the struc- 

 ture or essential characters of the flower 

 or fruit; sometimes a genus comprises 

 but a single species. 



Germ; the growing part of a bud. 



Gemnen; the old name for the ovary. 



Germination; the sprouting, or incipient 

 growth, of a seed. 



Gibbous: hunched, or swelled out, on one 

 or botli sides. 



Glabrous; very smooth, without any rough- 

 ness or pubescence. 



Gland ; a small roundish organ, or append- 

 age, which often secretes a fluid. 



Glandular; furnished with glands. 



Glandular-hispid, or glandular-pubes- 

 cent; hairy or pubescent, and the hairs 

 tipped with glands. 



Glaucescent; inclining to, or becoming, 

 glaucous. 



Glaucous; silvery; pale-bluish, or greenish- 

 white ; covered with a greenish white 

 mealiness. 



Globose, or globular; spherical ; round on 

 all sides. 



Glomerate; densely clustered in small 

 heaps, or irregular heads. 



Glomerules; small dense, roundish clus- 

 ters. 



Glumaceous; chaff like; resembling chaff 

 or glumes. 



Glumes; the bracts, or outer chaff, em- 

 bracing the spikelets of the grasses (calyx, 

 of Linn.). See Palea. 



Glutinous; viscid ; covered with an adhe- 

 sive fluid. 



Grain ; fruit of the true grasses, sometimes 

 called a caryopsis. 



Gramineous; grass- like; resembling grasses. 



Graniferous; bearing a grain, or grains. 



Granular; formed of grains or small parti- 

 cles. 



Gymnospermous; having the seeds naked, 

 i. e. not inclosed in a pericarp. 



Gyndndrmts; having the stamens growing 

 on, or adhering to, the pistil. 



GyniLcium ; a term designating the pistil- 

 late portion of the flower, or the seed- 

 bearing organs, collectively. 



Gynostegiym; the pistil-cover or tube 

 formed by the connate filaments, in the 

 Asclepias family. 



Habit of plants. Their general external 

 appearance and mode of growth, by which 

 they are recognized at sight. 



Habitat, or habitatio; the natural or na- 

 tive place of growth. 



Halved- one sided, as if one half had been 

 cut off. 



Hastate; shaped like a halbert; lanceolate, 

 with a divaricate lobe on each side of the 

 base. 



Head; a dense roundish cluster of sessile 

 flowers. 



Heptandrous; having 7 stamens. 



Herbaceous; not woody ; of a tender con- 

 sistence, and usually destructible by frost. 



Herbarium ; a collection of dried speci- 

 mens of plants. 



Herbs: plants which are not woody of a 

 more tender structure than trees and 

 shrubs, and usually killed by frost. 



Hetfrogamous head's ; heads of Syngerie- 

 sious flowers, containing florets of differ- 

 ent structure and sexual character. 



Heterophyllous; having leaves of different 

 forms. 



Hexdmerous; consisting of 6 parts. 



Ifcxandrous; having 6 stamens of equal 

 length. 



Hilum ; the scar left on a seed, at the point 

 of attachment to the funumlus. 



Hirsute; rough-haired ; clothed with stiffish 

 hairs. 



Hi*l>id: bristly; beset with rigid, spreading, 

 bristle-like hairs. 



Hoary; covered with a white or whitish pu- 

 bescence. 



Homogamous heads. Heads of Syngene- 

 sious flower?, in which all the florets are 

 of similar structure and the same sexual 

 character. 



Hooded. See cucullat". 



Horizontal ovules. When they project 



