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Globose. Spherical in form. Globular. Nearly globose. 
Glutinous. Covered with a sticky gum. 
Hairy. Having rather long hairs, 23. 
Halberd-shaped, 21. 
Head. A compact, rounded cluster of flowers or fruit, 26. 
Heart-shaped. Ovate, with a notched base; cordate, 21. 
Heart-wood, 138, 35, : 
Herbaceous. Without woody substance in the stem; like an herb; 
soft and leaf-like. 
Hybrid. An intermediate form of plant between two nearly related 
species; formed by the action of the pollen of one upon the pistil of 
the other. 
Imbricated. Overlapping one another like the shingles on a roof, 
28. 
Ieised. Irregularly and deeply cut, as the edge of a leaf. 
Incurved. Gradually curving inward. 
Indefinite annual growth, 30. 
Indehiscent. Not splitting open. 
Infleced. Bent inward, 33. 
Involucre. A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, a cluster of 
flowers, or fruit, 27. 
involute. Rolled inward from the edges, 34. 
Irregular. Said of a flower which has its corolla of different sized, 
shaped, or colored pieces, 25. 
Kernel. The substance contained within the shell of a nut or the 
stone of a fruit. 
Key. A fruit furnished with a wing, or leaf-like expansion, 28. 
Kidney-shaped. Broadly heart-shaped, with the apex and basal 
notch somewhat rounded. 
Lacerated. With a margin irregularly notched or apparently torn. 
Laciniate. Cut into narrow lobes ; slashed. 
Lance-shaped. Lanceolate. Like a lance-head in shape, 21. 
Leaf, 17; arrangement of leaves, 18; bases of, 21; forms of, 20; 
kinds of, 19; margins of, 22; parts of, 19; points of, 22; veining, 19. 
Leaflet. A separate blade of a compound leaf, 20. 
Leafstalk. The stem of a leaf; petiole, 19. 
Legume. A pea-like pod, 28. 
Lensform. Lenticular. Thickest in the center, with the edges some 
what sharp; like a double-convex lens. 
Linear. Long and narrow, with the edges about parallel, 20. 
