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GLOSSARY. 



fo'liole, a leaflet ; a distinct part of a com- 

 pound leaf. 

 fo'li ose, bearing many leaves. 

 fo'li um {pi. folia or foliums), « leaf. 

 f51'licle, a one-celled, many-seeded carpel, 



opening by the ventral suture. 

 fol lic'u lar, like, pertaining to, or consisting 



of follicles. 

 f oot'stalk, a pedicel, petiole, or peduncle. 

 fo ra'men, a small opening or orifice. 

 fo ram in if 'er ous, having small openings. 

 fo ram'i nous, full of holes. 

 fOrked, branched into two or three or more. 

 f6r'm cate, having an arch or scale over the 



throat of the corolla. 

 fOr'uix, a small arched scale in the throat of 



a corolla, as in Comfrey. 

 fo've late, having shalloiv pits. 

 free, not adherent or adnate. 

 fringed, edged with soft hairs. 

 frond, an organ which is both stalk and leaf. 

 fron'deut, covered with leaves. 

 fron des'cence, the act of bursting into leaf. 

 fron'dose, frond-bearing, leafy. 

 fruc ti fi ca'tion, the act of producing fruit. 

 fruit, a ripened pistil ; a seed-vessel with its 



contents. 

 fru tes'gent, shrubby in character. 

 fu ga'cious, lasting but a short time. 

 ful'cra, accessory organs, such as tendrils, 



stipules, etc. 

 fu ITg'i nous, of a sooty color ; smoky-brown ; 



blackish. 

 ful'vous, dull yellow ; tawny. 

 fu'nicle, funic'ulus, the stalk of an ovule 



or seed. 

 fQr'cate, forked ; forked-veined. 

 fur fu ra'ceous, scurfy. 

 ffir'rowed, marked lengthwise with channels. 

 fQs'cous, grayish or blackish brown. 

 fu'si form, spindle-shaped. 



^'bu lus, the ivoody cone of the Juniper and 



Cypress. 

 ga'le a, the name applied to the upper lip of 



labiate corollas. 

 ga'le ate, shaped like a helmet. 

 gSm o pet'a lae, plants ivhose petals are 



united. 

 gSm o pet'al ous, having the petals united ; 



sympetalous. 

 ga moph'yl lous, having united perianth 



leaves. 

 gam o sgp'al ous, 7vith the sepals united. 

 gem'i nate, having tivo together. 

 gem ma'tion, formation of new individuals 



by budding. 

 gSm'mule, a small bud ; the plumule. 

 gen'e ra, see genus, 

 ge nSr'ic, pertaining to a genus. 

 ge ntc'u late, bent at an angle. 



ge'nus {pi. genera), a group of species alike 



in their fructifying organs. 

 germ, the ovary. 



ger'meu, the old name for the ovary. 

 ger mi na'tion, the development of the seed 



into a plant ; sproutiiig. 

 gib'bous, having a rounded protuberance at 



the side or base. 

 gla'brate, becoming glabrous, or almost gla- 

 brous, with age. 

 gla'brous, s7nooth ; not hairy. 

 glad'i ate, sword-shaped. 

 gland, an organ of a leaf or branch which 



secretes a fluid, as oil, resin, etc. 

 glan'du lar, consisting of glands. 

 glans, the acorn or mast of the Oak and 



similar fruits. 

 glar'e ose, growing in gravel. 

 glau Qcs'cent, slightly glaucous, or bluish 



gray. 

 glau'eous, with a bloom or whitish waxy 



powder, as on fresh plums. 

 globose', nearly spherical inform. 

 glo ehid'i ate, tipped ivith barbs, or ivith a 



double-hooked point. 

 glom'er ate, collected into close heads. 

 glom'er ule, a cyme grown in the form of a 



head. 

 glu ma'ceous, glume-like ; glume-bearing. 

 glu melles', the inner husks of grasses. 

 glumes, bracteal coverings offloivers or of the 



seeds of grains and grasses. 

 gon'o phore, a stipe beloiu stamens. 

 gos'sy pine, cottony ; floccident. 

 graft'ing, the act of inserting a shoot or 



scion from one tree iJito the stem or some 



other part of another, so (hat they unite 



and produce fruit of the kind from which 



the shoot was taken. 

 grain, tlte gathered seeds of cereal plants; 



a grain-like prominence or tubercle, as on 



the sepals of Bock. 

 gra min'e ous, grass-like. 

 gran 'u lar, composed of grains. 

 gris'e ous, gray ; bluish gray. 

 gru'mous, or gru mose', formed of coarse, 



clustered grains. 

 gut'tate, spotted as if by sjiots of something 



colored. 

 gym no car'pous, having a naked fruit, 

 gym no sper'mae, a class of exogenous plants 



characterized by naked seeds. 

 gjrm no sperm ous, having naked seeds. 

 gy nan'drous, bearing stameiis on the pistils. 

 gyn'obase, a process of the torus, on or 



around which the carpels are suspended. 

 gy noe'Qi um, the collective pistils of afloiver. 

 gyn'o phore, a produced torus bearing the 



ovary on its summit. 

 gyn o ste'gi um, a sheath around pistils. 

 gyn ste'mi um, the column in Orchids con- 

 sisting of s/i/lf and stigma with stamens 



combined. 

 gy'rate, curved inward; vircinate. 



