GLOSSARY 163 



Evergreen. Green all the year. 



Exserted. Prolonged beyond other organs. 



Fascicle. A thick cluster. 



Fertile. Seed or spore-bearing. 



Filament. The stalk supporting the anther. 



Flaccid. Weak. 



Foliaceous. Like leaves. 



Follicle. A one-celled fruit splitting down one side. 



Free. Not joined to other organs. 



Frond. The leaf-like part of a fern. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped. 



Gamopetalous. Petals united. 



Gibbous. Swollen on one side. 



Glabrate. • Almost hairless. 



Glabrous. Without hairs. 



Gland. An organ for secreting oil or nectar. 



Glaucous. Covered with a white bloom. 



Globose. Globular. 



Glume. Bracts on the spikelets of grasses or sedges. 



Habitat. Place of growth of a plant. 



Hastate. Spear-shaped. 



Head. A cluster of flowers sessile on a common receptacle. 



Herbaceous. Herb-like ; living only through the growing season. 



Hirsute. With coarse hairs. 



Hispid. Bristly. 



Hypogenous. Inserted below the ovary. 



Imbricated. Overlapping. 



Imperfect. With stamens or pistil lacking. 



Incised. Cut deeply into sharp lobes. 



Included. Not projecting beyond sm-rounding organs. 



Indehiscent. Not opening to discharge contents. 



Inferior. Inserted below another organ. 



Infiexed. Bent inwards. 



Inflorescence. The flowering part of a plant, or the method of 



arrangement of the flowers. 

 Integument. The outer coat. 

 Internode. The part of the stem between the points of insertion of 



the leaves. 

 Involucel. A secondary involucre. 

 Involucre. A whorl or whorls of bracts around a flower or flower 



cluster. 

 Involute. Rolled inwardly. 



