GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



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Glandular mody tissue, 43. 

 Glareose: growing in gravelly places. 



Olaucescent : verging upon or slightly 



Glaucous : covered with a whitish bloom, 

 which rubs off, as the surface of a 

 cabbage-leaf or a plum, or so 

 whitened as to appear to have a 

 bloom, .56. 



Globose : spherical or nearly so. 



Globular : nearly globose or spheri- 

 cal. 



Glochideous, or glochidiate : barbed ; 

 hooked back 'at the point, like the 

 barb of a fi,sh-liook, or with two or 

 more such barbs at the point. 



Glomerate : clustered into a 



Gldmerule : a capitate cyme, i. e. a cyme 

 condensed into a head, 219. 



Glossolo(jt/ : the department of Botany 

 which explains the technical terms 

 of the science, 15. 



Glumaceous: bearing, or resembling 

 glumes. 



Glume : one of the husks or chaff of 

 Grasses, &c., 497. 



Glumelle : an inner glume or palea. 



Gluten, 197. 



Glutine, 198. 



Ginophore : a stalk elevating both sta- 

 mens and pistil, 267. 



Gooseberry, 421. 



Gossi/pine : cottony. 



Gourd (a pepo), 423. 



Grafting, 100. 



Grain, 314. 



Gramincffi, 497. 



GranadiUa, 422. 



Granular : composed of grains or gran- 

 ules. 



Granulate: composed of little kernels 

 or coarse grains. 



Granules : any minute particles. 



Grape, 408. 



Green lai/er of the bark, 121. 



Grossulaccse, 420. 



Grumous, or grnmose: consisting of 

 clustered grains. 



Guaiacum, 405. 



Guava, 418. 



Gum Animi, 400. Gum Arabic, 414. 

 Gum Elemi, 407. Gum Traga- 

 canth and Senegal, 414. 



Gutta-percha, 57. 



Guttate ; sprinkled with colored dots or 

 small spots. 



Guttiferas, 400. 



Gymnocurpous : naked-fruited. 



Gymnospcrmia, 315. 



Gymnospe'rmous : naked-seeded, 296. 



Gymnospcrms, or Gvmnospcrmous 

 Plants, 297,371, 479. 



Gyncecium : the pistils of a flower, 223. 



Gynandria, 513 



Gynundrous : stamens borne on the pis- 

 til, especially on the stvle; 253, 

 281, fig, 468. 



Gynobase : the base of a style, or sum- 

 mit of a receptacle, on or around 

 which two or more carpels are in- 

 serted, as in Rue, Sage, Geranium, 

 &c., 267. 



Gynophore: the stalk of a pistil, 267. 



Gyrate or gyrose : bent round, or bent 

 back and forth. 



Habit (Habitus) : the general aspect of 



a plant. 

 Habitat : the habitation, or situation in 



which a plant is naturally found. 

 Hackberry, 474. 

 IIa.'matine, 414. 

 Iliemodoraceoe, 492. 

 Hairs, 52. 

 Hairy: clothed or beset with hairs, 



which are separately distinguinh- 



able. 

 Halberd-shaped, or Halberd-headed: see 



Hastate. 

 Ilaloragese, 420. 

 Halved ; see Dimidiate ; appearing as if 



one half ^\'as absent. 

 HamamclaccK, 425. 

 Hamate, orhamose: hooked. 

 Hdmulose: diminutive of hamate. 

 Hastate: halberd-headcd ; shaped like 



a halberd, viz. with a sjircading 



lobe at the base on each side ; 157, 



fig. 250. 

 Hazel-nut, 476. 

 Head: see Capitulum ; 213, fig. 



320, &c. 

 Hexided: same as capitate. 

 Heart-shaped : see Cordate. 

 Heart-wood, 35, 124, 126. 

 He'betate : blunted, having a soft obtuse 



point. 

 Helicoid : coiled into a helix or snail- 

 shell, or tending to be rolled up ; 



as in Fig. 332. 

 Helmet: see Galea, 278. 

 Helobious : living in marshes. 

 Heiwlous : grayish-yellow mixed with 



some red. 

 Hemi- in Greek derivatives : halved or 



half; as 

 Hemi-andtropoiis : half-anatropous. 

 He'micarp : a half-fruit of UmbellifersB ; 



same as mericarp. 

 Heinilropal, or hemitropous : nearly the 



same as amphitropous. 

 Hemp, 475. 

 Hepaticse, 503. 

 Hepta ; the Greek numeral seven, used 



in the following compounds. 



