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Gynobase : a particular receptacle or support of the pistils, or of the car- 

 pels of a compound ovary, as in Geranium. 

 Gynophore : a stalk raising a pistil above the stamens. 

 Gyrate : coiled in a circle; same as circinate. 

 Gyrose : strongly bent to and fro. 



Habit: the general aspect of a plant, or its mode of growth. 



Habitat : the situation in which a plant grows in a wild state. 



Hairs : hair-like projections or appendages of the surface of plantsv 



Hairy : beset with hairs, especially longish one. 



Halberd-shaped, or Halberd-headed : see hastate. 



Halved : when appearing as if one-half of the body were cut away. 



Hamate, or Hamose : hooked; the end of a slender body bent round. 



Hamulose : bearing a small hook; a diminutive of the last. 



Hastate, Hastile : shaped like a Halberd; furnished with a spreading 



lobe on each side at the base. 



Heart-shaped: of the shape of a heart as commonly painted. 

 Heart-wood : the older or matured wood of exogenous trees. 

 Helicoid : coiled like a helix or snail-shell. 

 Helmet : the upper sepal of Monkshood in this shape. 

 Hemi- (in compounds from the Greek): half; e g. Hemispherical, etc. 

 Hemicarp : half-fruit, or one carpel of an Umbelliferous plant. 

 Hemitropous or hemitropal: (ovular seed) nearly same as amphitropous. 

 Hepta (in words of Greek origin): seven, as 

 Heptagynous : with seven pistils or styles. 



Heptamerous : its parts in sevens. Heptandrous : having seven stamens. 

 Herbaceous : of the texture of common herbage; not woody. 

 Herbarium : the botanist's arranged collection of dried plants. 

 Hermaphrodite .flower): having both stamens and pistils in the same 



blossom ; same as perfect. 



Heterocarpous : bearing fruit of two sorts or shapes, as in Amphicarpaea. 

 Heterogamous : bearing two or more sorts of flowers as to their stamens 



and pistils; as in Aster, Daisy, and Coreopsis. 

 Heteromorphous : of two or more shapes. 



Heterotropous, or Heterotropal (ovule): the same as amphitropous. 

 He.ra- (in Greek compounds): six; as 



Hexagonal: six-angled. Hexagynous : with six pistils or styles. 

 Hexamerous : its parts in sixes. Hexandrous: with six stamens. 

 Hexapterous : six-winged. 

 Hilar : belonging to the hilum. 



Hilum : the scar of the seed; its place of attachment. 

 Hippocrepiform : horseshoe-shaped. 

 Hirsute : hairy with stiffish or beard-like hairs. 

 Hispid: bristly; beset with stiff hairs. Hispidulous is a diminutive of it. 



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