Glossary. 



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Gibbous 



Glabrate. 



Glabrous. 



FugLicious. Falling away very early. 

 Funicle or Funiculus. The stalk of an avule 



or seed. 

 Fuscous. Grayish brown. 

 Fusiform. Spindle-shaped. 

 Gamopetalous. Having petals more or less 



united. 



Swollen or extended on one side. 

 Nearly or becoming glabrous. 

 Smooth — without hairs or rough- 

 ness of any kind. 

 Gland. Secreting cell or group of cells or a 



protuberance resembling same. 

 Glandular. Supplied with glands. 

 Glaucescent. Becoming or nearly glaucous. 

 Glaucous. Furnished with a bluish or 



"whitish bloom, as seen on the cabbage leaf. 

 Globose. Spherical or nearly so. 

 Gymnosperm. (adj. Gymnospermous ) A 

 plant having naked ovules or seeds not 



inclosed in an ovary. 

 Gynoecium. The pistil or pistils collectively. 

 Gynophore. The stipe or stalk of a pistil. 

 Habit. The form or general appearance of a 



plant. 

 Habitat. The area over "which a species is 



found. 

 Hastate. Shaped like an arrow-head but with 



lobes directed outward. 

 Head. A dense cluster of sessile or nearly 



sessile flowers. 

 Heart-wood. The mature and usuallj' darker 



colored central portion of an exogenous 



trunk. 

 Hilum. The scar or place of attachment of 



an ovule, or seed. 

 Hirsute. Covered with rather coarse stiff 



hairs. 

 Hispid. 

 Hoarv. 

 Hybrid. 

 Hypogenous. 



ovary. 

 Imbricated. Overlapping like the shingles of 



a roof. 

 Imperfect. Applied to flowers indicates that 



either pistils or stamens are lacking. 

 Incised. Cut into rather deeply. 

 Included. Said of stamens which do not pro- 

 ject beyond the perianth. 

 Incomplete. Applied to flowers in which one 



or more of the four sets of floral organs are 



wanting. 

 Incumbent. Lying upon, as the radical 



against the back of a cotyledon. 

 Indehiscent. Not opening at maturity. 

 Induplicate. With edges folded inward. 

 Inequilateral. I nequal-sided. 

 Inferior. Said of an ovary when it is adnate 



to the calyx-tube. 

 Inflorescence. The arrangement of a flower- 

 cluster. 

 Innate. Said of an anther when it is seated, 



as it were, on the end of a filament. 

 Internode. The portion of a stem between the 



points from which the leaves grow. 

 Interpetiolar. Between the petioles. 

 Introrse. Facing inward. 



Covered with bristly stiff hairs. 

 Covered with fine grayish pubescence. 

 A cross between two species. 



C4rowing from beneath the 



In\olucrate. Furnished with an involucre. 

 Involucre. A whorl of bracts subtending a 



flower. 

 Involute. The sides rolled inward. 

 Irregular. Said of flowers in which similar 



parts differ in size or form. 

 I-veel. A central ridge; also the united an- 

 terior petals of a papilionaceous flower. 

 Ivey. A drj- winged indehiscent fruit; a 



samara. 

 Laciniate. Cut into long irregular teeth. 

 Lamella. A thin flat scale or plate. 

 Lamellate. Composed of lamellte. 

 Laminate. Consisting of plates. 

 Lanceolate. Lance-shaped, wide below and 



tapering to apex, but narrower than ovate. 

 Leaflet. One of the small blades of a com- 

 pound leaf. 

 Legume. A simple dry fruit, composed of a 



single carpel and dehiscent usually along 



both sutures; a pod, as of the Pea. 

 Leguminous. Producing legumes. 

 Lenticel. Small lens-shaped corky growths 



seen in J'oung barks, 

 fjcnticular. Lens-shaped. 

 Lepidote. Bearing small scurfy scales. 

 Ligulate. Strap-shaped, or provided with 



ligules. descriptive of corollas, etc. 

 Limb. The expanded part of a petal or 



sepal. 

 Linear. Descriptive of a narrow leaf with 



margins approximately parallel, as a blade 



of grass. 

 Lobe. A prominent division of an organ. 

 Lobed. Divided with rather deep sinuses. 

 Loeulicidal. Said of capsules which open 



into the cell along the dorsal suture. 

 Loment. A pod constricted between the seeds. 

 Lyrate. Lyre-shaped ; said of pinnatifid 



leaves where the terminal segment is 



largest. 

 Marcescent. Withering but still persisting. 

 Medulla. The central pith-column of e.xogen- 



ous stems. 

 MeduUarj'-rays. Lines of specialized cells of 



woods radiating from the pith-coliunn to 



the bark. 

 Micropj'le. The orifice of an ovule or the 



corresponding point of a seed. 

 Midrib. The main central rib of a leaf; the 



mid-vein. 

 Monadelphous. Stamens with filaments 



united. 

 Moniliform. Resembling a string of beads. 

 Monoeotyledonous. With a single cotyledon. 

 Monoecious. With stamens and pistils on the 



same plant but in different flowers. 

 Monopetalous. With petals united. 

 Mucro. A small abrupt tip. 

 Mucronate. Furnished with a mucro. 

 Muricate. Rough with short rigid points. 

 Naturalized. Said of introduced plants which 



are reproducing by self-sown seeds. 

 Nectar. A sweet secretion in flowers, which 



becomes honey after being gathered by bees. 

 Nectariferous. Bearing nectar. 

 Nectary. An organ secreting nectar. 

 Iserve. A simple or unbranched vein. 



