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Signifies jointed, fynonymous with articulatus ; 

 but in Linnaeus it implies the joints forming a 

 very obtufe angle, as when the knee is a little 

 bent ; Jiexuofus in a fmall degree. 



GENICULUM Igjnu, the knee] the little 

 knots or joints of a Cuhnns. 



GERMEN, a fprout or bud ; the hafis of 

 the Pijiillum ; the rudiment cf the fruit yet in 



embryo. 



GIBBUM Folium \igihha, a hump on the 

 back] quod utra-mque fuperfuiem facit convexam, me-, 

 diante copiofiore pulpa ; when by means of the in- 

 termediate pulp both furfaces are rendered con- 

 vex. 



Gibbtim. Perianthiutn, regards the bafe of the 

 Peria)ithiu?n, as in the clafs Diadelphia & Tetra- 

 djnamia of Linnseus. 



GLABER, CaiiUs, Folium ; fmooth, having 

 an even furface, quod fuperficie lavi eji, ahfque 

 omni ijiaqualitate : oppofed to Scaber^ and ex? 

 emplified in the Dfiphne latireola, Arbuius uneda, 



GLADIATA ftljqua [a gladius, a fword or 

 knife] fhaped like a fword, as in the Cleo7ne arabica. 



GLANDULiE, a fpecies of fecretory, or 

 L excretory 



