GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 



Germen superior, above the flower, fig. 7, pi- 1 1 • 



Gibbous, protubcrent 



Glabrous, smooth, naked, bald. 



Glandular, furnished with glands, or small soft bodies secreting fluid. 



Glaucuous, invested with a pale greenish-blue mealiness. 



Globose, round or spherical. 



Glomerate, gathered into a head, pi 34, figs 3, 4. 



Glottis, the throat of a corolla, pi. 9, fig, \t. 



Glumaceous ))lants, those whose flowers are like those of grasses. 



Glumes, the floral envelopes of a grass, pi. 2, fig. 5, pi. 6, fig. 4, 5, 6, 7- 



Gnawed, irregularly notched at the margin. 



Granulated, when a root consists of small bulbs or scales, pi 25, fig. 5. 



Granular, invested as if with grains, 



Gyimndrous, stamens and pistil combined, pages 25, 27, pi. 19, fig. 2. 



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Habit, general appearance of a plant. 



Habitat, the locality of a plant 



Hastate, like the head of mi halbcrt, pi. 28, fig. 17- 



Helmet, the galea or upper lip of a ringent corolla, pi. 9, fig. I. 



Herbaceous, soft, not woody, perishing annually. 



Hermaphrodite flower, when containing both stamens and pistil. 



Hexagonal, six-sided. 



Hcxandrous, having six. equal stamens, pi. 17, fig. 6. 



Hcxangular, six-angled. 



Hexapctalous. ha\-iug six petals. 



Hirsute, invested with soft hairs. 



Hispid, rough witli stiff hairs, 



Hoary, invested with close do«aiy hairs. 



Husks, the glume or envelopes of the flowers of grasses, page 10, pi. 2, 



fig. 5 ; pi 6, figs. 4, 5, 6, 7- 

 Hybrid, partaking of the nature of two species. 

 Hypocrateriform, salver-shaped, pi. 8, fig. 3. 



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Imbricate, laid one over another, pi. 31, fig. 12. 



Immersed, under water. 



Imperfect flower, when either the stamens or pistils are wanting. 



Incised, cut. 



Incomplete flmver, when the corolla is wanting, pi. 16, fig. 2. 



Incrassated, becoming thicker towards the end. 



Incurved, bending inwards. 



Indehiscent, not bursting ; opposed to dehiscent. 



Indigenous, native of a country. 



Inferior flower, when the calyx and corolla are beneath the germen, 



pi 11, fig. 7. 

 Inflected, bent inwards. 



Inflorescence, mode of flowering, or the arrangemcat of flowers, page 72. 

 Infundibuliform, funnel-shaped, ])1. 8, fig. 2. 

 Internodcs, the s]Dace between the joints of a plant. 

 Interruptedly pinnate, havmg smaller leaflets between the larger, pi. 30, " 



fig. 8. 

 Inverse, inverted. 



Inversely-cordate, inversely heart-shaped, pi. 18, fig. 5 ; pi 30, fig. 2. 

 Involucre, or hivohicrum, the bractea; which accompany the flowers of 



umbelliferous plants, pi. 2, fig. 2 a ; and the calycine leaflets 



which surround the florets of comjiound flowers, pi. 19, fig 1, a. 

 Involuccls, the jiartial involucre of umbelliferous plants, pi. 2, fig. 2 b. 

 Involute, rolled inwards at the margin. 



