GLOSSARY. 



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Farinaceous. Containing s t a r ch ; 

 starch-like. 



Fascicle. A close bundle or cluster. 



Fasciculate. In close bundles (fas- 

 cicles). 



Favose. Resembling a honeycomb; 

 alveolate. 



Fertile. Capable of producing pollen 

 or fruit. 



Fibrillose. With fine fibers. 



Fibrous. Compose of or resembling 

 fibers. 



Fimbriate. Fringed. 



Fimbrillate. With a minute fringe. 



Flexuous. Zigzag; bending alter- 

 nately in opposite directions. 



Floccose. With fleecy tufts of soft 

 woolly hairs. 



Foliaceous. Leaf-like. 



Follicle. A fruit consisting of a single 

 carpel dehiscing along the ventral 

 suture. 



Fornix, (plural — fornices). A swel- 

 ling in the throat of the corolla. 



Foveolate. With small pits or de- 

 pressions. 



Fugacious. Fading or falling very 

 early. 



Fuscous. Grayish-brown. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped. 



Galea. A helmet-shaped or beak-like 

 upper lip of a corolla. 



Galeate. Helmet-shaped; having a 

 galea. 



Gamophyllous. Composed of coales- 

 cent leaves or leaf-like organs. 



Geniculate. Bent abruptly, like a 

 knee. 



Gibbous. With a protuberance or 

 swelling on one side. 



Glabrate. Nearly glabrous or be- 

 coming glabrous. 



Gland. A secreting organ or a pro- 

 tuberance resembling one. 



Glanduliferous. Bearing small glands. 



Glauccscent. Somewhat glaucous. 



Glaucous. r Covered with a whitish 

 bloom. 



Glochidiate. Barbed at the tip. 



Glomerate. In small compact clus- 

 ters. 



Glumaceous. Glume-like. 



Glume. A chaff-like bract, especially 

 the two empty bracts at the base of 

 a grass spikelet. 



Glutinous. Sticky, glue-like. 



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Grain. A one-celled one-seeded in- 

 dehiscent seed-like fruit in which 

 the wall of the fruit adheres to the 

 seed, a caryopsis. 



Granulate. Appearing as if covered 

 with minute granules. 



Gynobase. An enlargement or pro- 

 longation of the receptacle bearing 

 the ovary or in the fruit the nutlets 

 (Boraginaceae) . 



Hastate. Halberd-shaped. 



Haustoria. Root-like organs which 

 parasitic plants send into the cells 

 of their hosts to absorb food. 



Hermaphrodite. Having both sexes; 

 in flowering plants, with both sta- 

 mens and pistils. 



Hilum. The attachment scar on the 

 seed. 



Hirsute. Pubescent with rather 

 coarse stiff hairs. 



Hispid. Covered with rigid hairs or 

 bristles. 



Hyaline. Transparent or translu- 

 cent. 



Hypanthium. An enlargement or 

 special development of the recep- 

 tacle and calyx-tube as in the 

 Rosaceae. 



Hypocotyl. The stem-like part of the 

 embryo (caulicle). 



Hypogynous. Attached to the re- 

 ceptacle below and entirely free 

 from the ovary. 



Imbricated. Overlapping and break- 

 ing joints like shingles. 



Immersed. Growing wholly under 

 water. 



Incised. Cut sharply and irregularly 

 more or less deeply. 



Indehiscent. Not opening when ripe. 



Indurated. Hardened. 



Indusium. The protective membra- 

 nous covering formed over the 

 fruit-dot in many ferns. 



Involucel. A secondary involucre 

 enveloping an umbellet (Umbel- 

 liferae) . 



Involucrate. Having an involucre. 



Involucre. A circle or cluster of 

 bracts surrounding a flower or 

 group of flowers. 



Involute. Rolled inward. 



Keel. A projecting midrib on the 



