GLOSSARY. 



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GlumaceoTis : glume-like, or bearing 



glumes. 

 Glumes : the scale-like bracts, &c. of 



grasses and sedges. 

 Granular: covered with grains. 

 Gymnospermous Plants: Flora, p. 431. 

 Gynandrous, 70. 



Habit: the general appearance of a plant. 

 Habitat : the native situation of a plant. 

 Hairs : hair-like appendages of the cuticle. 

 Hairy: furnished with hairs. 

 Hastate or Halberd-shaped : dilated at the 



base into two spreading lobes. 

 Heart-shaped : ovate, with a sinus at the 



base. 



Heptandrous : having seven stamens. 

 Herb, 26. 

 Herbaceous, 26 ; of the color and texture 



of a leaf. 



Herbarium : a collection of dried plants. 

 Hilum, 100. 



Hirsute : beset with coarse hairs. 

 Hispid : beset with rigid hairs. 

 Hoary: grayish- white. 

 Homogeneous : uniform in substance. 

 Hooded : rolled inward or arched. 

 Horn : an appendage like a horn. 

 Horny : of the texture of horn. 

 Hyaline : thin and nearly transparent. 

 Hybrid, 112. 

 Hypogynous, 70. 



Imbricated, 68. 



Imperfect (flowers), 66. 



Incised: cut into notches or lobes. 



Included : enclosed ; opposed to Exserted. 



Incumbent: Flora, p. 24. 



Incurved: bending inward. 



Indefinite : numerous; not readily counted. 



Indefinite Inflorescence, 48. 



Indehiscent: not opening. 



Indigenous : native to a country. 



Induplicate : folded inward. 



Indusium: Flora, p. 586. 



Inferior: below, 103. 



Inflated: puffed out, as if distended with 

 air. 



Inflexed: bent inward. 



Inflorescence, 47. 



Innate (anther), 72. 



Inserted on: used in the sense of growing 

 from a part. 



Insertion : the mode of attachment. 



Internodes, 14. 



Interrupted : not continuous ; not jointed. 



Interruptedly pinnate : with smaller leaf- 

 lets between the Larger ones. 



Intervals : Flora, p. IpY 



Introrse (anthers), 72.' 



Introduced : brought from another coun- 

 try. 



Inverted : turned upside down. 



Involucel, 58. 



Involucre, 58. 



Involute : with the margins rolled inward. 



Irregular (flowers), 66. 



Jointed : separating across into pieces ; 

 furnished with joints. 



Keel: a sharp longitudinal ridge on the 

 ^ back of an organ ; Flora, p. 86. 

 Keeled: see Carinate. 

 Kidney-shaped : heart-shaped, but the 

 width greater than the length. 



Labellum: the odd petal (lip) of the Or- 

 chis Family. 



Labiate: divided into an upper and lower 

 lobe or lip. 



Laciniate : divided into irregular lobes. 



Lamellate : formed of thin plates. 



Lamina: the blade of a leaf, &c. 



Lanceolate : lance-shaped. 



Lanuginous: woolly. 



Lateral: placed at, or pertaining to the 

 side. 



Leaf, 33. 



Leathery: see Coriaceous. 



Legume, 88. 



Lenticular: like a double-convex lens. 



Liber, 31. 



Ligulate: strap-shaped. 



Ligula: Flora, p. 545. 



Limb : the expanded part of a leaf, &c. 



Linear : long and narrow, with parallel 



margins. 



Lip : see Labellum and Labiate. 

 Lobe : one of the parts of a divided body. 

 Loculicidal, 89. 

 Lunate : crescent-shaped. 

 Lyrate : pinnatifid, with the upper lobes 



enlarged. 



Marginal : borne on, or pertaining to, the 

 edge or margin. 



Medullary Rays, 30. 



Medullary Sheath, 29. 



Membranous : of the texture of mem- 

 brane. 



Mericarp : Flora, p. 157. 



Micropyle, 100. 



Midrib: the prolongation of the petiole 

 through the limb of a leaf. 



Monadelphous, 70. 



Monandrous : bearing one stamen. 



Moniliform : bearing short joints ; like a 

 string of beads. 



Monochlamydeous : bearing only one row 

 of floral envelopes. 



Monocotyledonous, 104. 



Monoecious, 67. 



Monopetalous : with the petals united 

 into one piece. 



Monosepalous : with the sepals united 

 into one piece. 



Mucronate: tipped with an abrupt slen- 

 der point. 



Muricate : beset with hard wart-like 

 pouits. 



Naturalized : introduced, but propagat- 

 ing freely by seed. 



