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Farinaceous. Starch} - . 



Fascicle. A cluster. 



Fasciculate. Clustered. 



Fertile. Seed-bearing. 



Fibrous. Stringy. 



Fimbriate. Fringed. 



Floccose. Having fleecy tufts of wool. 



Fornix. A swelling in the throat of a gatnopetalous corolla. 



Galea. The upper lip of a corolla especially when helmet-like or beak-like. 



Geniculate. Bent abruptly like an elbow or a knee. 



Gibbous. Protuberant: swollen on one side. 



Glabrous. Not hairy. 



Gland. A secreting organ. 



Glaucescent. Somewhat glaucous. 



Glaucous. With a whitish bloom that is easily rubbed off, as a cabbage leaf. 



Glumaceous. Glume-like. 



Glume. See page 14. 



Gynobase. An elongated receptacle: seepage 145. 



Hastate. Halberd-shaped. 

 Hilum. The attachment scar on the seed. 

 Hirsute. Hairy with a few long hairs. 

 Hispid. With a few short stiff hairs. 

 Hypogynous. Attached to the receptacle. 



Imbricated. Breaking joints like shingles. 



Indurated. Hardened. 



Indusiuiu. In ferns, the flap-like or shield-like covering of a sorus. 



Lacerate. Torn; irregularly and deeply cleft. 

 Laciniate. Cut into slender lobes or teeth. 

 Lenticular. Shaped like a biconvex lens. 

 Ligulate. Strap-shaped. 

 Ligule. See page 14. 



Loculicidal. Said of a capsule which dehisces by splitting into the cells or 



cavities. 

 Lodicule. See page 15. 



Monoecious. With stamens and pistils in separate flowers on the same plant. 

 Mucronate. Terminating abruptly in a short tip. 

 Mucronulaie. Slightly mucronate. 



Nectary. A honey-secreting organ. 



Neutral. Said of a flower that does not bear seed. 



Ob-. In combination, signifies the reverse of the meaning of the primary 

 word. 



( fchroleucous. Yellowish- white. 



Or/hot ropous. Said of a straight ovule or seed that is attached by its Ikisc 



