Glossary of Botanical Terms. 



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Enodis; without joints or knots. 



Ensiform; sword-shape, two-edged, like 

 the leaves of the common Iris. 



Entire ; even or whole at the edge. 



Eroded, with an appearance of knaw- 

 ing at the edge. 



Exserted : projecting out of the bowl or 

 sheath ; beautifully shown in the Wild 

 Columbine and Fuchsia Coccinea. 



Falcate ; linear and crooked. 



Farina ; used sometimes to denote meal 

 or corn, and at other times pollen. 



Fascicle ; a bundle. 



Fastigate ; flat topped. 



Favose ; honeycomb-like. 



Fertile ; producing fruit. 



Filament ; a slender, thread-like part. 



Fimbriate ; simulating a fringe 



Fistulous ; hollow, or tubular, like an 

 onion leaf. 



Flabelliform ; spreading, like a fan. 



Flagelliform ; like a whip lash. 



Flexuous ; serpentine or zigzag. 



Floscular ; a floret in a compound flow- 

 er, which is tubular, and not ligulate, 

 as in the thistle. 



Follicle ; a seed vessel, which opens 

 lengthwise, or on one side only. 



Fragilis ; breaking easily. 



Frondose ; leaf-like. 



Frutescent ; becoming shrubby. 



Fugaceous ; easily flying oflf. 



Fulcra ; props or supports. 



Furfuraceous ; resembling bran, the clo- 

 thing of some leaves. 



Galea; ahemlet. 



Gemmaceous ; belonging to a bird. 



Geniculate ; bent like a knee. 



Germination; sprouting of the seed. 



Gibbous; swelled out, commonly on 

 one side. 



Glabrous ; smooth, without hair or pu- 

 Iescence. 



Gland; a little appendage, generally 

 roundish, for the secretion of various 

 substances. 



Glandular pubescence; hair-tipped, with 

 little heads or glands, as in the sun- 

 dew. 



Glaucous ; palish green, easily rubbed 

 off. 



Glome ; a roundish head of flowers. 



Glomerate; many little branches termina- 

 ted by heads. 



Glume; the scales, valves, or chaff which 

 make the calyx and corolla of grasses. 



Glutinous; adhesive; covered with a 

 sticky fluid. 



Graminaceous; grass-like. 



Grandiflorus; with large flowers. 



Granular; covered or composed of little 

 grains. 



Gravcolens ; having a strong odor. 



Gregarious; so called from growing to- 

 gether, in large groups. 



Grooved ; marked with deep lines. 



Grumose ; thick, crowded. 



Habit ; plants appear capable of contract- 

 ing habits. The Mimosa, or Sensitive 

 Plant, if conveyed in a carriage, closes 

 its leaves as soon as the carriage is in 

 motion, but soon after it becomes accus- 

 tomed to it, the contraction ceases, and 

 the leaves expand : but if the carriage 

 stops for any length of time, and after- 

 wards recommences its motion, the 

 plant again unfolds its leaves ; and it is 

 time only that can reconcile it to its new 

 situation. 



Habitation ; this term relates to the geo- 

 graphical distribution or native places 

 of plants on the globe. 



Head ; a dense round collection of flow- 

 ers, nearly sessile, as the clover. 



Helmet; the concave upper lip of a la- 

 biate flower. 



Herb ; a plant without a woody stem. 



Herbarium ; a collection of dried plants. 



Hirsute ; rough with hairs. 



Hisped ; more bristly than hirsute. 



Hoary ; whitish colored, having a scaly 

 mealiness. 



Humilis ; low and humble 



Husk ; a larger kind of glume, as that of 

 corn. 



Hybernalis ; growing in winter. 



Hybrid ; a mongrel or intermediate spe- 

 cies between two others from which it 

 is descended, produced by different pol- 

 len. 

 Hypocrateriform ; salver-shaped, with a 

 tube abruptly expanded into a flat bor- 

 der. 



Hypogynous; under the style. 



