Glandula 
Glucase 
shaped like a gland; Gland’ula, 
Gland’ule, a viscid gland in Orchids 
and Asclepiads, which holds the 
pollen-masses in their place ; the 
retinaculum ; glan’dular, possessing 
glands ; ~ Disk, = GLANDULA ; ~ 
Hair, an epidermal appendage, the 
end of which is usually enlarged, 
and contains a special secretion ; ~ 
Wood’y Tis’sue, coniferous pitted 
tissue; Glandula’tion, -tio, the 
arrangement of the glands on a 
plant; glandulif’erous, -rus, gland- 
bearing ; glan‘dulose, glandulo’sus, 
gland’ulous, glandular; glan’dulo- 
so-serra’'tus, having serrations tip- 
ped or bordered with glands ; Glans 
(Lat.), a fruit one-seeded by abor- 
tion, or a few-seeded dry inferior 
indehiscent pericarp seated within 
a cupular involucre, as the fruit of 
the oak, nut, etc. 
gla’real (glarea, gravel), term em- 
ployed by H. C. Watson for those 
plants which grow on dry exposed 
ground, chiefly gravel or sand; 
gla’reose, glareo’sus, frequenting 
gravel. 
glauces’cent, glauces'cens (yAavxds, 
bluish grey), becoming sea-green ; 
glauci’nus (Lat.), bluish sea-green ; 
glau’cous, -cus (1), sea-green ; (2) 
covered with a bloom asa plum or 
cabbage-leaf. 
Gle’ba (Lat., a clod), the chambered 
sporogenous tissue within a sporo- 
phore of Phalloideae; Gle’bula (1) 
a synonym of GriEeBa; (2) the 
sporangia of certain Fungi, as 
Nidularia ; (3) a rounded elevation 
on the thallus of Lichens. 
Gli/adin (yAla, glue), vegetable glue or 
gelatin forming part of gluten; 
Gli’an, the alcohol-soluble part of 
gluten. 
Gli’ding-growth = SLIDING GRowTH. 
glit’tering, lustre from a polished sur- 
face which is not uniform. 
glo’bate (globus, a sphere), globular ; 
Globes, Grew’s term for pollen- 
grains; Glo’bi spermat‘ici, spores 
of some Fungi (Lindley) ; Glo’boids 
(eldos, like), rounded masses of 
mineral matter in proteid grains ; 
glo’bose, globo'sus, nearly spherical; 
glob’ular, globula'ris, spheroidal 
in shape; Glob’ule, the spheri- 
cal antheridium in Characeae; 
Glob’ulet, used by Grew for (1) a 
glandular hair, (2) # pollen-grain ; 
Glob’ulin, (1) ‘‘round transparent 
granules in cellular tissue, consti- 
tuting fecula” (Henslow) ; (2) the 
chief ingredient in aleurone or 
protein granules, occurring amor- 
phous or as crystalloids; (3) in 
Lichens = Chlorophyll (Olivier) ; 
Glob’ulus (Lat. a little globe), (1) 
used by Necker for the fruit of 
Hepaticae ; (2) the deciduous shield 
in some Lichens ; soredia. 
Glo’chid, Glochid’ium (yAw xls, an an- 
gular end or barb), (1) a barbed 
hair or bristle ; (2) a similar struc- 
ture op the massulae of certain 
Cryptogams which act as organs 
of attachment to a macrospore ; 
glochid’eous, -eus, glochid’iate, glo- 
chidia'tus, pubescent with barbed 
bristles ; Glo’chis, a barb. 
Gloeoli’chenes (yAoids, sticky), For- 
sell’s name for homoeomerous 
Lichens, asCollemacei, Ascolichenes 
with gonidia belonging to the Chro- 
ococcaceae ; Gloe’ophyte (durov, 
a plant), Gobi’s name for THALLO- 
PHYTE ; Gloiocar’pus (xapzos, fruit), 
w tetraspore (Lindley). 
Glome (glomus, a ball), a rounded 
head of flowers; glom’erate, glom- 
era'tus, agglomerate, collected into 
heads ; Glom’erule, Glomerw’lus, (1) 
a cluster of capitula in a common 
involucre, as Lchinops ; (2) a SorE- 
DIUM; glomeruliferous (fero, I 
bear), bearing clusters of coral-like 
excrescences; glomer’ulose, having 
glomerules ; Glom’us + = GLoME- 
RULE. 
Glossol’ogy (yAdooa, a tongue, doyos, 
discourse), the explanation of tech- 
nical terms; Glos’sopode, Glosso- 
pod’ium (ois, modos, a foot), the 
sheathing base of the leaves in 
Isoétes ; adj. glossopod’ial. 
Glu’case (yAux’s, sweet), an enzyme 
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