GLOSSARY. 



Glands: small cellular organs which sccr(?te oily or aromatic or other pro- 

 ducts: tliey are sometimes sunk in the leaves or rind, as in the Orange, 

 Pricicly Asli, &c. ; sometimes on the surface as small projections ; some- 

 times raised on hairs or bristles {;j/andul(ir hairs, jjr.), as in the Sweet- 

 brier and Sundew. The name is also given to any small swellings, &c., 

 whether they secrete any tiling or not. 



Glandular, G land arose : furnished with glands, or ghirui-like. 



Glans {Gland) : the acorn or mast of Oak and similar fruits. 



Glaucescent : sligiitly glaucous, or bluisli-gray. 



Glaucous: covered with a bloom, viz. witli a fine white powder that rubs off, 

 like that on a fresii plum, or a cabbage-leaf. 



Globose: spherical in form, or nearly so. Globular: nearly globose. 



Glochtdiate (liairs or bristles) . barbed ; tipped with barbs, or with a double 

 hooked point. 



Gldmerote: closely aggregated into a dense cluster. 



Gldmerule : a dense head-like cluster. 



Glumaceous : glume-like, or glume bearing. 



Glume: Glumes are the husks or floral coverings of Grasses, or, particularly, 

 the outer husks or bracts of each spikelet. 



Granular : composed of grains. Granule : a small grain. 



Grumous or Gruniose : formed of coarse clustered grains. 



Guttate: spotted, as if by drops of soraetliing colored. 



Gijuinocdrpous : naked-fruited. 



Gymnospermous : naked-seeded. 



Gi/ndndrous : with stamens borne on, i. e. united with, the pistil. 



Gijnceciuni : a name for tlie pistils of a flower taken altogether. 



Gynobase ; a particular receptacle or support of the pistils, or of the carpels 

 of a compound ovary, as in Geranium. 



Gynoj>hore: a stalk raising a pistil above the stamens, as in the Cleome 

 Family. 



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 plants. 



Hairy : beset with hairs, especially longish ones. 



Halberd-shaped OT 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 l>ody bent round. 



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



Hastate or 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. 

 Helicoid: coiled like a hclir or snail-shell. 

 Helmet: the upper sepal of Monkshood in this shape. 

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

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

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

 Hermaphrodite (flower): having both stamens and pistils in the same lilos- 



som ; same as perfect. 



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