GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS 



GERMINATION. The sprouting of a seed. 



GIBBOUS. Swollen on one side. 



GLABROUS. Smooth ; destitute of hairs. 



GLANDS. A secreting surface or structure ; a protuberance having the ap- 

 pearance of such an organ. 



GLANS. A nut. 



GLAUCOUS. Covered or whitened with a bloom. 



GLOBOSE. Spherical or nearly so. 



GYMNOSPERMS. Plants bearing naked seeds; without an ovary. 



GYNCECIUM. The pistils of a flower taken as a whole. 



HABITAT. The geographical range of a plant. 



HEAD. A compact cluster of nearly sessile flowers. 



HILUM. The point of attachment of an ovule or seed. 



HISPID. Bristly. 



HYBRID. A cross between two species. 



HYPOGYNOUS. Situated on the receptacle, beneath the ovary and free from 

 it and from the calyx. Applied to petals and stamens. 



IMBRICATE. Overlapping. 



INCISED. Cut sharply and deeply. 



INCLUDED. Applied to stamens or pistils that do not project beyond the 

 corolla. 



INDEFINITE. Applied to petals or other organs when too numerous to be 

 conveniently counted. 



INDEHISCENT. Not splitting open. 



INDIGENOUS. Native to the country. 



INFERIOR. Applied to an ovary which has an adherent calyx. 



INFLORESCENCE. The flowering part of a plant. 



INNATE. Applied to anthers which are attached by their base to the apex of 

 the filament. 



INSERTED. Attached to or growing out of. 



INTERNODE. The portion of a stem between two nodes. 



INTRORSE. Facing inward ; applied to stamens that face toward the 

 pistil. 



INVOLUCEL. A secondary involucre. 



INVOLUCRE. A collection of bracts at the base of a flower cluster or of a sin- 

 gle flower. 



INVOLUTE. A form of vernation in which the leaf is rolled inward from its 

 edges. 



LANCEOLATE. Applied to leaves which are slender, broadest near the 

 base and narrowed to the apex. 



LEAFLET. A single division of a compound leaf. 



LEGUME. A fruit formed of a simple pistil and usually splitting open* by 

 both sutures. 



LENTICELS. Small oval dots which appear upon the branches. 



LIBER. The inner layer of the bark. 



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