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Gamosepalous With more or less uuited or coalescent 
sepals. 
Geminate. ‘Twinned; in pairs. 
Geniculate. Bent like the knee. 
Gibbous Swelling out at one side. 
Glabrous. Smooth; without hairs or roughness. 
Glaucous. Bluish-hoary; covered with a fine whitish 
bloom. 
Glochidiate. Barbed like a fish-hook. 
Glomerule. A compact somewhat capitate cyme. 
Glume. The chaff-like bracts subtending the spikelets. 
-gonal. Relating to the angles. 
Gymnospermia. Plants having naked seed. 
Gynandria. Having the stamens adnate to or borne upon 
the pistil. 
Gynobase. A short thick prolongation of the axis upon 
which the pistil rests. 
Gynecium. The pistil or aggregate pistils of a flower. 
Gynophore. A stem bearing the ovary. 
Hastate. Triangular or arrow-shaped. 
Heptandria. Having seven stamens. 
Hermaphrodite. Both sexes in the same flower. 
Heterosporous. Bearing more than one kind of spores. 
Hexandria. Having six stamens. 
Hexagynia. Having six pistils. 
Hirsute. Having rather coarse or stiff hairs. 
Hispid. Beset with rigid or bristly hairs. 
Hyaline. Transparent or partially so. 
Hypogynous. At the base of, or below the pistil. 
Icosandria. Having more than twelve stamens inserted 
on the calyx. 
Imbricate. Overlapping 
Imparipinnate Pinnate, with an odd terminal leaflet. 
Incised. Irregularly, sharply und deeply cut. 
Incrassate. Thickened. 
Incumbent. Lying upon. 
