GLOSSARY. 



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Glabrous, bald, not hairy. 



'hilar, bearing glands, or hav- 

 ing a surface which exudes a sticky 

 or viscid liquid. 



Glav* . - i me what glaucous or be- 



coming so. 



Glaucous, whitened with a bloom. 



Globose, rounded, more or less spher- 

 ical. 



Glomerate, compacted into a close 

 cluster. 



Glomerule, a compacted or condensed 

 head-like cyme. 



Glumaceous, like the glume (bract) 

 of grasses, thin but firm. 



Glutinous, with a sticky exudation. 



Granulate, bearing granules or grain- 

 like bodies. 



Gynobase, an elevation or process of 

 the receptacle bearing the carpels 

 or nutlets. 



Gyno-dioecious, having flowers on one 

 plant pistillate, on another perfect. 



Gy no-monoecious, having perfect and 

 pistillate flowers on the same plant. 



Habit, mode of growth, general as- 

 pect or hue of a plant. 



Halophyte, a plant growing in salty 

 soils or alkaline soils, mostly suc- 

 culent plants with thick or small 

 leaves; the Pickleweed, Atriplex 

 and Kern Greasewood are typical 

 halophytes. 



Head, Baid of flowers in a globose 

 cluster, being sessile and collected 

 at the same point on the peduncle. 



Herb, a plant without woody stem or 

 parts, at least above ground. 



Herbaceous, like an herb in appear- 

 ance or habit, or in texture or 

 color, as herbaceous sepals, mean- 

 ing green or leaf-like. 



TI< rbage, the vegetative parts (stems 

 and leaves) produced in the season, 

 not including the flowers or fruit. 

 /. with stiff or rigid hairs. 



Hispidulous, minutely hispid. 



Hooded, said of an organ which is 

 curved or concave at the top like a 

 hood. 



Hyaline, transparent, translucent. 



Hydrophyte, a plant adapted to live 

 in water or very wet soil, chiefly 



characterized by a thin epidermis, 

 reduction or absence of roots and 

 reduction of the vascular system as 

 in the Pond Lilies, Pond Weeds and 

 Duck Weeds, or by succulence as in 

 Arrow Head, or by tall unbranched 

 stems with narrowly linear leaves, 

 or leafless as in the Bulrushes and 

 Sedges. 



Hypogynous, inserted on the recepta- 

 cle, with the parts of the flower un- 

 der or free from the pistil. 



Imbricate, overlapping like the shin- 

 gles on a roof so as to cover or 

 break joints. 



Immersed, growing wholly under wa- 

 ter. 



Incised, cleft or cut irregularly and 

 sharply. 



Included, not protruding beyond the 

 surrounding organ; included sta- 

 mens do not protrude beyond the 

 corolla. 



I n complete, said of a flower which has 

 not all of the four circles. 



Incumbent, said of cotyledons when 

 the back of one of them lies against 

 the caulicle. 



Indefinite, variable or uncertain in 

 number, numerous. 



Indehiscent, said of fruits or pods 

 which do not split open. 



Indigenous, native to the region. 



Indument, with a close pubescence or 

 coat of hairs. 



Induplicate, with the tips turned in. 



Indurated, hardened or becoming 

 tough. 



In equilateral, not equilateral, which 

 see. 



Inferior, growing or placed below; in- 

 fer' or ovary, one more or less at- 

 tached to or united with the calyx; 

 inferior stamens or lip of corolla, 

 i. e., with the stamens or lip on the 

 lower side of the flower. 



Inflated, distended or bladdery. 



Inflexed, bent or turned abruptly in- 

 ward. 



Inflorescence, a flower-cluster, or in 

 particular the mode of arrangement 

 of the flowers in a cluster. 



Innate, borne on the apex. 



