GLOSSARY. XXVli 



Flexuose, bent backwards and forwards, or waved. 

 Foliose, Foliaceous, leaf-like, or leaf-bearing. 



Frondose, Frondiform, like a frond, or a broad, flat, somewhat leaf-like expansion. 

 Fugacious, easily falling or broken off. 

 Fuscous, dull brown. 



Fusiform, spindle-shaped, i.e., narrowly oval with narrow, tapering ends (leaf-cell, 

 Tab. VII., B. 2c). 



Gemma, a small bud-like body, capable of reproducing the plant (Tab. IV., 5). 



Gemmiferous, Gemmiparous, bearing gemmte (leaf, Tab. IV., 4). 



Gemmiform, bud-like (plant, Tab. V. , 3). 



Geniculate, suddenly bent (seta, Tab. XXIV., H.). 



Gibbous, swollen on one side (capsule, Tab. IV. ,11). 



Glabrous, smooth, not hairy nor papillose. 



Glaucous, bluish-grey. 



Globose, round like a ball. 



Granulose, rough as with grains of sand. 



Gregarious plants, growing near together or clustered, but not in close tufts or mats. 



Guard-cells, the two kidney-shaped cells enclosing a stoma (Tab. V. 1 ). 



Gymnostomous, bare, without a peristome (mouth of capsule, Tab. IV., 9, 10). 



Hamate, hooked (leaf, Tab. LVIII., I.). 



Hispid, rough with short, stiff hairs. 



Homomallous leaves, all pointing in the same direction. 



Hyaline, colourless and transparent, like water (leaf-point, Tab. XXIII., D. la). 



Hygroscopic, readily absorbing water and thereby altered in form or direction. 



Imbricated, closely overlapping, like the tiles of a roof (leaves, Tab. I., 7). 

 Immersed, covered up ; of the capsule, when overtopped by the perichaetial bracts 



(Tab. II., 6). Cf. emergent, exserted. 

 Incrassate, of the cell-walls, thickened ; of the cells, having thickened walls (Tab. 



III., 2, 7, 10; the marginal cells). 

 Incumbent, folded inwards and lying upon. 

 Innovation, a branch or fresh shoot from a stem. 

 Insertion, the line of juncture of a leaf with the stem. 

 Involute, rolled inwards (leaf-margin, Tab. II., 13 ; Tab. XXXI., A. la). 



Julaceous, smoothly cylindrical, like a worm. 



Lacerate, Laciniate, jagged or torn (calyptra, Tab. IV., 3). 



Lamella, thin sheets or plates of tissue (Tab. III., 22, 16 ; Tab. III., 18, in section). 



Lamina, the blade, or expanded part of the leaf, as distinct from the nerve. 



Lanceolate, shaped like a lance-point (leaf, Tab. VIII., B. 2). 



Lenticular, like a double convex lens. 



Ligulate, strap-shaped (proportionally longer and narrower than Ungulate), (leaf, 



Tab. XIV., A. 1). 

 Limb, the upper part of the leaf as distinct from the leaf-base. 

 Linear, very narrow, with nearly parallel margins (leaf, Tab. XIX., C. 1 ; cells, 



Tab. XV., E. ic). 

 Lingulate, tongue-shaped (proportionally shorter and wider than ligulate), (leaf, Tab. 



XIV., C. 1). 

 Lumen, the cavity or space within a cell. 



