218 Gi-ossAKr* 



Gynophore: a stalk raising ?t pistil above the stamens, a# in the Cleome Family, 



p. 276. 

 Gyrate ;i codled iffi a'Circte'; same as cirfinafe, 

 Gyrose: strongly bent to and fro. 



Habit ! the general aspect of ?i plant, or its mode of growth. 



Habitat : the situation in which a plant grows in a wild state. 



Hairs: hair-like projections or appendages pfthe surfiice of plants. 



Hairy : beset with, ha,i|-s, especially Ipngish ones. 



Halberd-shaped, or Halberd-headed: see hastate. 



Halved: when appearing as if one half of the body were cut away. 



Hamate or Hamo^: hooked ; ;the end of a, slender body bent rounds 



Hdmulose : bearing a small hook ; a diminutive of the last. 



Hastate ov Hostile : shaped like a halberd; furnished with a spreading lobe on 



each side at the base ; p. 59, fig. 97. 

 Heart-shaped 1 atihfs shape «f a heart as commonly painted ; p. 58, fig. 90. 

 Heart-wood : the older or matured wood of exogenous trees ; p. 153. 

 Helicoid : coiled like a helix or snail-shelL 



Helmet: the upper sepal of Monkshood in this shape, fig. 185, &e<, 

 Hemi- (in compounds from the Greek) : hftlf j e. g. Hemispherical, &c. 

 Hemicarp: half-fruit, or one carpel of an Umbelliferous plant. 

 Hemilropous or Hem.tt,roptd (ovule or «eed) : nearly same as amphitropaus, p. 123. . 

 Hepta- (in words of, Greek origin) : seven; as, 

 Heptdgynous : with seven pistils or styles. 



Heptdmerous : its parts in sevens. Heptdndrms : having seven stamens. 

 Herb, p. 20. 



Herbaceous: of the texture of. common herbage ; not woody ; p. 36. 

 Herbarium: the botanist's arranged coUecition of dried plants; p. 201. 

 Hermaphrodite (flower) : having both stamens and pistils in the same blossom ; 



same as perfect ; p. 89. ,- ' 

 Heterocdrpous : bearing fruit of two sorts or shapes, as in Amphicarpeea. 

 Het!erdi}amous : bearing two or more sorts of flowers as to their stamens And 



pistils ; as in Aster, Daisy, and Coreopsis. 

 Heteromdtphous } of two or more Shapes. 



Heterdtropous, or Heterdtrapal (ovule) : the same as an^hitropous ; p. 123, 

 Hexa- (in Greek compounds) : six; as 



Eexdgonal: six-angled. Hexdgynous: with six pistils or styles. 

 Hexdmerous : its parts in sixes. Hexdndrous : with six stamens. 

 Hexdpterous : six-winged. 

 Hilar: belonging to the hilura. 



Hilum : the scar of the seed ; its place of attachment ; p. 122, 135, 

 Hippocrgpiform : horseshoe-shaped. 

 Hirsute : hairy with stiflSsh or beard-like hairt. 



Hispid: bristly; beset with stiffs hairs. Hisp(dulous is a diminutive of it. 

 Hoary : gra^sh-white ; see canescent, &c. 



Homdgamous : a head or cluster with flowers all of one kind, as in Eupatorium, 

 Homogeneous: Uniform in nature; all of one kind. 

 Homomdllous (leaves, &c.)': originating all round a stem, but all bent or cttrved 



round to one side. 



