Glucose 
Gonidium 
which hydrolyses maltose ; Glu’cose, 
(1)a group of carbohydrates, crystal- 
lisable and soluble in water, occur- 
ring in fruits, as grape-sugar, etc., 
see DextrosE, LEVULOsE ; (2) also a 
commercial term for syrups made 
from starch or grain; Glu’coside, 
(eldos, like), for complex substances 
which give rise on decomposition 
to Glucose, such as Amygdalin, 
Coniferin, Salicin; ~ En’zyme, a 
ferment such as Synaptase or 
Emulsin. 
Glue, viscid secretion on surface of 
some plants ; Bud ~ = BLasTocoLLa. 
gluma’ceous (glwma, husk of corn, + 
aceous), resembling the glumes of 
grasses, as the perianth-segments 
of Juncus; Glume, Gilu'ma, the 
chaffy two-ranked members of the 
inflorescence of grasses and similar 
plants; barren ~,em’pty ~, glumes 
which subtend a spikelet, and do 
not include aflower; fer’tile ~ ,flor’al 
~, flower’ing ~ , the glume in grasses 
which includes a flower, the palea ; 
fruit/ing ~, the fertile glume at the 
time of maturity; ster‘ile~, a 
glume which subtends other glumes 
or has no flower; glu’mal, charac- 
terized by having a glume; Glum- 
ella, Glu’melle, (1) the palea of 
grasses ; (2) the lodicule of the same 
(Richard) ; glumeliea‘nus + of or be- 
longing to a glumella; Glumel’lule, 
Glumellu'la, (1) = palea; (2) = lodi- 
cule ; glu’mous, having glumes, as 
a flower which has a subtending 
lume, 
Glu'tamin (gluten, glue), an amide 
allied to asparagin found with 
it in the juice of beets, etc. ; 
Glu'ten, a tough protein substance 
occurring in grain after the removal 
of the starch; ~ Cells, of the endo- 
derm contain oil, but no starch; 
Glutin'‘ium, ‘‘the flesh of certain 
Fungals” (Lindley); glu’tinous, 
glutino'sus, covered with a sticky 
exudation. 
Gly’case (vAvkvs, sweet), an enzyme, 
the same as GLUCASE. 
Glycerrhiz’in, or Gly’cion, a saccharine 
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Glycodru’pose 
matter from the roots of Glycyrr- 
hiza glabra, Linn., liquorice. 
(yruKds, sweet, + 
Drupose), a lignocellulose, form- 
ing the hard concretions in the 
flesh of pears; Gly’cogen (yevydw, 
I bring forth), a carbohydrate 
present in quantity in epiplasm, 
capable of being converted into 
glucose; ~ Mass, protoplasm per- 
meated with glycogen, epiplasm ; 
Glycolig’nose (agnum, wood), a pre- 
sumed glucoside, from pinewood. 
Gnaurs, burrs or knotty excrescences 
on tree-trunks or roots, probably 
from clusters of adventitious buds. 
gnawed, = EROSUS. 
gnomon’ical, gnomon’icus (yvdpwr, the 
pin of a dial), an appendage when 
abruptly bent at an angle to its 
attachment. 
gob’let-shaped = CUP-SHAPED. 
Gonang‘ium (yévos, offspring, dyyeior, 
a vessel), a spherical Colony of 
Palmelia, ete., overgrown with 
thick - walled brown Lichen-hy- 
phae ; goneoclin’ic (kdlvn, a bed), 
applied to a hybrid which approxi- 
mates to one parent, and not inter- 
mediate. 
gongrosi’roid, resembling the genus 
Gongrosira, Kuetz.; applied to the 
resting-stage of Vaucheria. 
gongylo’des (yoyy’dos, round), knob- 
like ; Gong’ylus (1) for round corpus- 
cles on certain Algae, which become 
detached, and germinate as separate 
individuals; (2) globular bodies 
in the thallus of Lichens; (8) = 
Sprorsg, Sporrpium, SPErREMA. 
goniautoi’cous (yévos, offspring, avros, 
self, olxos, a house), the male in- 
florescence of a Moss, bud-like and 
axillary on a female branch; 
Gon'id, proposed abbreviation of 
GoNIDIUM; Gonidan’gium (eldos, 
like, dyyetov, a vessel), ina gameto- 
phyte, the organ which produces 
a sexual spore or gonidium; 
Gonid’iophore (gopéw, I carry), a 
sporophore which bearsa gonidium ; 
Gonid'ium (1) in Lichens, an algal 
cell of the thallus; (2) the same as 
