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GLOSSARY 



Hilum, the scar left at point of 

 attachment of the seed to 

 its funicle when the seed falls 

 off. 



Hirsute, pubescent with rather 

 coarse or stiff hairs. 



Hispid, beset with rigid or 

 bristly hairs or with bristles. 



Homogamous, bearing but one 

 kind of flowers ; also when 

 both the sexes in a flower 

 mature at the same time. 



Hyaline, transparent or trans- 

 lucent. 



Hybrid, a cross breed of two 

 species. 



Hypocrateriform (corolla), 

 salver-shaped regular gamo- 

 petalous corolla with a long 

 tube and spreading limbs. 



Hypogynous, inserted on the 

 thalamus beneath the ovary 

 and free from it; having the 

 sepals, petals, and stamens 

 so inserted. 



Imbricate, overlapping, either 

 vertically or spirally, where 

 the lower piece covers the 

 base of the next higher; or 

 laterally, as in the aestivation 

 of a calyx or corolla, where 

 at least one piece must be 

 wholly external and one in- 

 ternal. 



Impari-pinnate (leaf), pinnate 

 with a terminal leaflet. 



Incised, cut sharply and irregu- 

 larly more or less deeply. 



Included, not protruded from 

 the surrounding envelope. 



Indefinite (stamens, &c.), very 

 numerous. 



Indehiscent, ■ not opening by 

 valves, &c. ; remaining per- 

 sistently closed. 



Inferior, lower or below ; outer 

 or anterior. Inferior ovary, 

 one that is adnate to the 

 calyx. 



Inflated, bladdery. 



Inflorescence, the flowering axis 

 or branch of a plant, and 

 especially the mode of its 

 arrangement. 



Innate or basifixed, filament 

 attached to the base of the 

 anther, so that the filament 

 and the connective are in the 

 same straight line. 



Inserted, attached to or grow- 

 ing out of. 



Inter-, in composition, between. 



Internode, the portion of a stem 

 between two nodes. 



Interpetiolar, between the leaves 

 of a pair, as the stipules of 

 many Rubiacea. 



Intraraarginal, within and near 

 the margin. 



Intrapetiolar, inside, or in the 

 axil of the petiole or leaf, 

 as intrapetiolar stipule ; also 

 axillary. 



Introrse, turned inward or to- 

 ward the axis (as introrse 

 anthers). 



Involucel, a secondary involucre, 

 as that of an umbellet in 

 UmhellifercB. 



Involucellate, having an in- 

 volucel. 



Involucral, belonging to an in- 

 volucre. 



Involucrate, having an invol- 

 ucre. 



Involucre, a circle or collection 

 of bracts surrounding a 

 flower-cluster or head, or a 

 single flower. 



Involute, rolled inward longi- 

 tudinally from the margin. 



