XVI 



GLOSSARY 



Genus (plural, Genera), a family, or num- 

 ber of plants which agree with one 

 another in the structure of the (lower 

 ami fruil. 



Germ, the name formerly given to the 

 ovary. 



Gcrmi?iation, the sprouting of a seed. 



Gibbous, hunched, or swelled out, on one 

 or both sides. 



Glabrous, smooth; without pubescence or 

 roughness. 



Gland, a small roundish appendage, 

 which often secretes a moisture. 



Glandular, furnished with elands. 



GlundulurJiispid,or Glandular- pubescent, 

 hairy or pubescent, and the hairs lip- 

 ped with siiands. 



Gland uliferous, bearing or producing 

 gland*. 



Glaucous* silvery ; pale bluish- or green 

 ish-white; covere.l with a greenish- 

 white mealiness. 



Globose, spherical ; round on all sides. 



Glomerate, densely clustered in small 

 heaps, or Irregular heads. 



Glometules, small dense roundish clus- 

 ters. 



Glumaccous, chaff-like ; resembling chaff, 

 or glumes. 



Glume, chatr, or husk; applied more 

 particularly to the outer or lower flo- 

 ral covering of the grasses, 



Glumose, having glumes. 



Glutinous, viscid ; covered with an adhe- 

 sive lluid. 



Gramineous, grass like ; resembling 

 grasses. 



Grahiferous, bearing a grain, or grains. 



Granular, formed Of grains. 



Gymnospennous, having the seeds appar- 

 ently naked. 



hoary, covered with a white pubescence. 



Homo^amous heads, heads of Syngene- 

 sious flowers in which all the Florets 

 are of one and the Same sexual char- 

 acter. 



Homtphyllous, having the leaves all of a 

 similar figure. 



flooded, see Cucullafc. 



Hum, a process, 01 elongation, resem- 

 bling a horn. See Spur. 



Homy, of a texture or consistence like 

 horn. Sec Cur), eons. 



Hybrid, a mule ; a inonsrel partaking of 

 the nature, and produced by the mix- 

 ture, of two different species, or vari- 

 eties. 



Hypogaun, situated; growing, or remain- 

 ing under ground. 



Uypoxyncus, Inserted under the base of 

 the ovary, and r re e, or not adhering 

 to the calyx or pistil. 



Icosandrous, having a l>out 20 stamens 

 (more or less) which are perigynous, 

 — i. e. growing t», or inserted\>n, the 

 calyx. 



Imbricate, or Imbricated, lying closely 

 over each other, like shingles on a 

 roof, or scales Ofl a fish. 



Imper/ut flower, wanting cither stamen 

 or pistil. 



Indeed, cut, or gashed ; separated by in- 

 cisions. 



Inclinate, or I.u-lincif J bent towards each 

 other, or toward* something different. 



Included, wholly contained ina'cavity ;— 

 the opposite o(e X sertcd. 



Incomplete flower, Hunting either calyx 

 or corolla. 



Incrassate, thickened upwards, or tow- 

 ards the summit. 



Incumbtnt, lying up<>n,acainst, or across. 



G'/nandrous, having the stamens growing Incumbent anther, attached at or near its 



on, or cohering with, the pistil. 



Habit of plants, their general external 

 appearance and mode of growth, by 

 which they are recognized at sight. 



Habitat, or Habitatio, the native place of| 

 growth of plants. 



Halved, onesided, as if one half had been 

 cut off. 



Hastate, shaped like a halbert : lanceo- 

 late, with a divaricate lube on each 

 side, at base. 



Head, a dense sessile cluster, or round- 

 ish collection of flowers. 



Heptandrous, having seven stamens. 



Herbaceous, not woody ; of a tender con- 

 sistence, and destructible by frost. 



Herbarium, a collection of dried speci- 

 mens of plants. 



Heterogamous heads, heads of Syngenc- 

 sious flowers containing Florets of a 

 different sexual character. 



Heterophyllous, having leaves of different 

 forms. 



Hexandrous, having six stamens of equal 

 length. 



Hilum, the scar or mark on a seed, at the 

 point of attachment to the funiculus, 

 or placenta. 



Hirsute, rough-haired ; clothed with stiff- 

 ish hairs. 



Hispid, bristly ; beset with rigid spread- 

 ing bristle-like hairs. 



middle and lying horizontally across 

 the summit of th L . filament. 



Incnrnntnt cotyledoi^ having the radicle 

 bent over and applied to the back of 

 one of tfie cotyledons;— as in many 

 Tetrady namous nr Cruciferous plants 



Incurred, bent or curved inwards. 



Indefinite, o( do certain, constant, or de- 

 terminate number. 



Indehiscent, not opening naturally. 



Indigenous, native; growing oiiginally 

 in a country. 



Indurated, hardenci| ; become hard. 



Indusium (plural, In f i U8 j a ), the membrane 

 or veil which Covers the young So* 

 rus (or cluster of fruit) on the leaves 

 of Ferns. 



Inferior calyx, having the ovary above 

 and free in the bosom of the calyx. 



Inferior ovary, situated below the calyx ; 

 t.e.adnate to the tube of the calyx, and 

 consequently Ujarin^the segments at 

 its summit. 



Inflated, distended or swelled like a 

 blown bladder. 



Inflected, or Inflextd, bent suddenly in- 

 wards. 



Inflorescence, the disposition or arrange- 

 ment of dowers and their footstalks 

 on a plant ; as Umbel, Panicle, Ra- 

 ceme, &c. 



