Gibbous; swollen on one side. 



Glabrous ; without hairs or other clothing. 



Gland; a wartlike cellular secreting organ usually raised above 



the surface. 

 Glandular ; having glands. 



Glandular-hairy ; having hairs tipped with glands. 

 Glandular-serrate ; having short teeth tipped with glands. 

 Glaucous ; green with a whitish-blue lustre. 

 Globose ; round like a globe. 

 Glumes ; the scales enclosing the spikelet of flowers in Grasses ; 



the imbricate bracts enclosing the flowers of Sedges. 

 Glumiferous ; having flowers covered by glumes. 

 Granular; covered with minute projecting points. 



Habit; the general appearance of a plant. f 



Haft ; a winged leafctalk ; the linear part of a spathulate leaf 



or petal. 

 Hastate ; enlarged at the base into two lobes directed nearly 



horizontally. 

 Head; a close terminal collection of flowers surrounded by an 



involucre. 

 Helmet ; the hooded upper part of a flower. 

 Helmet-shaped; arched and concave like a helmet. 

 Herbaceous ; the parts of plants which are not woody ; also 



organs, or parts of them, of a green colour. 

 Hermaphrodite ; having both sexes in one flower. 

 Hilum or hile ; the mark on a seed which indicates its place of 



attachment. 

 Hispid ; covered with stiflF hairs. 

 Hoary ; with greyish-white down. 

 Hooded ; formed into a hood at the end. 

 Horizontal; spreading at right angles to their support, as leaves 



on a stem. 

 Hybrid; a mule. 

 Hypogynous ; springing from below the base of the ovary and 



not attached to the calyx. 



Imbricate ; arranged over each other like the tiles of a roof. 

 Imparipinnate ; pinnate with a single terminal leaflet. 

 Incise ; deeply cut. 



Included; not extending beyond the organs surrounding it. 

 Incumbent ; when the radicle is applied to the back, not edges, 



of the cotyledons. 

 Incurved ; curved inwards. 

 Indefinite ; many but uncertain in number. 

 Lidehiscent ; not bursting. 



