GLOSSARY. XI 



Ephemeral ; lasting but a clay. Fruit ; the seed with its enclosing pcri- 



; the outer skin of a fruit. carp. 



Epidermis; cuticle, outer skin. Frutescent; woody, or becoming woody. 



i us; growing on the apex of the Fugacious; falling away very early. 



ovary. Funiculus; foot-stalk of the ovary or 



Epipetalous ; growing on petals. seed. 



Epiphytes; plants growing on other Funnel-shaped; a corolla with a tube, 



plants. Air plants. and a gradually expanding limb. 



Episperm; Testa, outer coat of seed. Furcate; forked. 



Eauitant; opposite leaves infolding each Furrowed; marked with longitudinal 



other, so as to alternately overlap each channels. 



others edges. Fusiform ; spindle-shaped, like the Rad- 



nequally sinuate, as if gnawed. ish- 

 I ; blanched, 

 minions; seed without albumen. Galea ; a helmet, the upper lip of a lata- 

 i ide growers, increasing by ate corolla. 



external accretions. Gamopctalous ; having one petal. 



Exostonie; orifice of the inner coat of the Gamosepalous; having one sepal. 



nucleus. Geminate ; in pairs. 



Exotic; plants belonging to a foreign Genera, genus; ideal assemblages of near- 

 country, ly related species. 

 Exserted; projecting out beyond the ori- Geniculate; bent at a very obtuse angle. 



gee. Germ ; the growing point of a bud. 



Exstipulate ; destitute of stipules. Germination ; the swelling of a seed and 



: turned outwards. the evolution of its embryo. 



Gibbous ; swollen or enlarged at one side. 

 Falcate ; shaped like a scythe or sickle. Glabrous ; smooth. 



Farinaceous; mealy. Gland; a small collection of tissue prodn- 



Fascicle; a contracted cyme. «ng a secretion. 



Fasciculated; in bundles or fascicles. Glandular; furnished with glands. 



Fastigiate; flat-topped, applied to a clus- Glaucous; covered with a whitish, fine 

 Favose ; honcv-coinped. [ter. powder, or bloom that rubs off. 



Feather; the plumose crown of seeds. Globose; globular, round like a ball. 

 Feather-veined; with the veins like a Glomerate ; densely clustered. 



feather. Glomerule ; small heads forming a glume. 



Fertile; applied to pistillate flowers. Glume; the scales or bracts surrounding 



Fibre ; any thread-like part. the stamens and pistils in the grasses. 



Filament; that part of a stamen that sup- Gluten; a tenaceous principle found m 



ports the anther. some seeds. 



Filiform; thread-like. Granulate; in the form of grains. 



Fimbriate ; fringed. Gymnospermous ; naked-seeded plants. 



Fissure: a cleft, or split. Gymnospermia ; an order of Didynamia. 



Fistulous ; hollow like a reed. Gynaecium; the pistillate system of a 



Flabelliform ; fan-shaped. flower. 



Flaccid; lax, or limber. Gynandrous ; when stamens are seated 



Flagelliform; whip-like. on the pistil. 



Fleshy ; thick, and containing a firm Gynaphore ; a special stalk of the ovary. 



pulp. 

 Fiexuous ; bent or curved right and left Habitat; the situation where a plant n» 



alternately. turally grows. 



Floccose ; covered with loose cottony tufts. Hairs ; hair-like appendages to plants. 

 Floral : relating to a flower. Halbert-shaped, hastate. 



Florets; the separate small flowers of a Hastate; shaped like a halbert. 



cluster or head. Head; flowers collected in a rounded 



Floriferous; bearing flowers. form. 



Flower; the stamens and pistils, and Heart-shaped; cordate. 



their envelopes. Heart-wood; duramen, the inner layers 



Foliaceous ; leaf-like in texture. of a stem. 



Foliate ; with leaves. Helmet ; the upper lip of a labiate flower. 



Follicle; a one-valved pericarp, dehiscing Hemicarp; half a cremocarp. 



longitudinally. Heptandrous ; having seven stamens. 



Foramen ; the small aperture in the coats Heptagynous ; having seven styles. 



of a seed. Herb ; any plant not having a wooxjy 



Foveolate; pitted. stem. 



Fovilla ; the fine dust in the pollen grains. Herbaceous ; not woody. 

 Free; not adherent to any other organ. Herbarium; a collection of dried plants. 

 Frond ; stem and leaf confluent together, Hesperidium ; an orange, or similar fruit 



peculiar to cryptogamous plants. Heterogamous ; a compound flower, wtib. 



