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Gladiate, sword-shaped, as the leaves of Iris. 



Glands, small cellular organs which secrete oily or aromatic or other products ; they 



are sometimes sunk in the leaves or rind, as in the Orange, Prickly Ash, &c. ; 



sometimes on the surface as small projections ; sometimes raised on hairs or 



bristles (glandular hairs, $c.), as in the Sweetbrier and Sundew. The name is 



also given to any small swellings, &c., whether they secrete anything or not; so 



that the word is loosely used. 



Glandular, Glandulvse, furnished with glands, or gland-like. 

 Glans (Gland), the acorn or mast of Oak and similar fruits. 

 Glareose, growing in gravel. 

 Glaucesctnt, slightly glaucous, or bluish-gray. 

 Glaucous, covered with a bloom, viz. with a fine white powder of wax that rubs off, 



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



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

 Glochidiate, or Glochideous, (bristles) barbed; tipped with barbs, or with a double 



hooked point. 



Glomerate, closely aggregated into a dense cluster. 

 Glomerule, a dense head-like cluster, 77. 



Glossology, the department of botany in which technical terms are explained. 

 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 

 Glumelles, the inner husks of Grasses. 

 Gonophwe, a stipe below stamens, 113. 

 Gossypine, cottony, flocculent. 

 Gracilis, Latin for slender. 

 Grain, see Caryopsis, 121. 

 Gramineous, grass-like. 



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

 Graveolent, heavy-scented. 

 Griseous, gray or bluish-gray. 

 Growth, 129. 



Grumous, or Grumose, formed of coarse clustered grains. 

 Guttate, spotted, as if by drops of something colored. 

 Gymnos, Greek for naked, as 



Gymnocarpous, naked-fruited. Gymnospermous, naked-seeded, iOS 

 Gymnospermous yyncecium, 109. 

 GymnospermcB, or Gymnospermous Plants, 183. 

 Gynandrous, with stamens borne on, i. e. united with, the pistil, 99. 

 Gynoecium, a name for the pistils of a flower taken altogether, 105. 

 Gynobase, a depressed receptacle or support of the pistil or carpels, 114. 

 Gynophore, a stalk raising a pistil above the stamens, 113. 

 Gynostegium, a sheath around pistils, of whatever nature. 

 Gynostemium, name of the column in Orchids, &c., consisting of style and stigma 



with stamens combined. 

 Gyrate, coiled or moving circularly. 

 Gyrose, strongly bent to and fro. 



Habit, the genera! aspect of a plant, or its mode of growth. 

 Habitat, the situation or country in which a plant grows in a wild state 

 Hairs, hair-like gn>wths on the surface of plants. 

 Hairy, beset with hairs, especially longish ones. 

 Halberd-shaped, see hastate, 53. 



Hahed, 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. 



Haplo-, in Greek compounds, single; as Haplottemonous, having only one series ol 

 stamens. 



