G:X,OSSARY< 219 



JSomomdrpIious : all of one shape. • - ■ 



Somdlropoits or Homdlropal (embryo) ; curved with the seed ; curved one '.vay- 



Hood: s^rae as helmet OT galea. Hooded: hood-shaped; see cueuUate. 



Hooked: same as hamate. 



Horn: a spur or some similar appendage. Homy: of the texture of Jiotn. > 



Hortus Siccus: an herhapumi, or. collection. pf dried plants; p, 201, 



Humifuse : spread over the surface of the ground. 



Hyaline : transparent, or partly so. 



Hybrid: a cross-breed between two allied species. 



Hypocratgriform : salver-shaped ; p., 101, fig. 202, 208. 



Hi/poycean: produced under ground. 



Hypdgynous: inserted under the pistil; p. 103, fig. 212. 



Icosdridrous : having 12 or more stamens inserted on the calyx. 



Imbricate, Imbricated, Imbricaiive : overlapping one another, like tiles or shingles 

 on a roof, as the scales of the involucre of Zinnia, &c., or the bad-scales of 

 Horsechesnut (fig. 48) and Hickory (fig. 49). In aestivation, where some 

 leaves of the calyx or corolla are overlapped on both sides by others ; p. 109. 



Jmmarginate : destitute of a rim or border. 



Immersed: growing wholly under water., , . i 



Impari-pinnate : pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex ; p. 65, fig. 126!. 



Imperfect flowers : wanting either stamens or pistils ; p. 89. 



IncequHateral : unequal-sided, as the leaf 0|f a Begonia. 



Incartous : hoary with white pubescence. 



Incised: cut rather deeply and irregularly^; p. 62, 



Included: enclosed ; when the part in question does not project beyond another. 



Incomplete Flower i wanting calyx or corolla ; p. 90, 



Incrassaied: thickened, . , 



Incumbent: leaning or resting upon : the cotyledons are incumbent when the 

 back of one of them lies against the radicle ; the anthers are incumbent 

 when turned or looking inwards, p. 11^3. 



Incarved: gradually curving inwards. 



Indefinite: not miiform in number, or too numerous to mention (over 12). 



Indefinite or Indeterminate Inflorescence: p. 77. 



Indehiscent : not splitting open ; i. e. not dehiscent ; p. 127. 



Indigenous: native to the country.. 



Individuals: p. 173. 



Induplicate : with the edges turned inwards ; p. 109. 



Indusium. : the shield or covering of a fruit-dot of a Fern. (Manual, p 588 ) 



Inferior: growing below some other organ; p. 104, 121,, 



7;i/?a<«d; turgid and bladdery. , 



Inflexed: bent inwards. 



Inflorescence : the arrangement of flowers on the stem ; p. 76. 



Infra-axillary : situated beneath the axil. , 



InfundibuU/orm or Infundibular : funnel-shaped; p.. 102, fig. 199. 



Innate (anther) : attached by its base to the very apex of the filament; p. 113. 



Innovation : an incomplete young shoot, especially in Mosses. 



Inorganic Constituents, p. 160. 



