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VOCABULARY. 



Floral envelops, 70. 



Florets, 77. 



Foliaceous, leaf-like- 



Foliation, the man.ier in which the 



young leaves are arranged in the 



leaf bud. 53. 

 Follicle, or foliculus, 97. 

 Food of plants, 130, 

 Foramen, 92. 

 Fovilla, 85. 

 Fringed, (see fimbriate.) 

 Fruit, 93. 

 Fruiting, 125. 

 Fugaceous, falling off, or perishing 



very quickly. 

 Functions of roots and leaves, 106. 

 Funiculus, 91. 

 Funnel-shapt'd, any organ in which 



the tube is ob-conical so that it re- 

 sembles a funnel. 

 Furcate, fjrked, having long terminal 



lobes. 

 Furrowed, marked by longitudinal 



channels. 

 Fusiform, 47. 



Galea, when the upper lip of a bilabi- 

 ate corolla is arched. 

 Gamosepalous, 71. 

 Gamopetalous, 71, 

 Gelatinous, resembhng jelly. 

 Gemmule, 84. 

 Geniculate, bent abruptly. 

 Germ, 86. 

 Germination, 127. 

 Gibbous, very convex, or tumid. 

 Glabrous, smooth, without hairs. 

 Glandular, bearing glands. 

 Glandular hairs, 34. 

 Glans, 99. 

 Glaucous, covered with a fine bloom 



of the color of a cabbage leaf. 

 Globose, nearly a sphere. 

 Glomernle, 78. 



GlumacecB, a sub class of Endogens, 

 whose floral envelops are gluma- 

 ceous. 

 Glumaceous, chaffy. 

 Glume, 76. 



Glutinous, viscid, covered with a vis- 

 cid exudation. _ 

 Granular, divided into little knobs or 



knotfs. 

 Grumous, in the form of little cluster- 

 ed grains. 

 Gynobase, 91. 

 Gynophore, 91. 



H. 



Halhert-shaped, (see hastate.) 

 Hairs, 34. 

 Hairy, (see pilose.) 



Hastate, abruptly enlarged at the base 

 into two acute diverging lobes. 



Heat, 150. 



Heart-shaped, (see cordate.) 



Heart-wood, 41. 



Herbaceous, soft, green and cellular- 



Hespendium, 99. 



Heterogamous, 77. 



Hilum, 91-102. 



Hirsute, covered with rough hairs. 



Hispid, similar to hirsute. 



Hoary, covered with short dense 

 hairs, giving an appearance of 

 whiteness to the surface. 



Homogamous, 77. 



Hooded, (see cucullate.) 



Hypocrateriform, a calyx or corolla of 

 which the tube is long and slen- 

 der, and the hmb flat. 



Hypogynous, 81. 



I. 



Imbricate, when the organs overlap 



each other, like the tiles of a roof. 



Included, stamens shorter than the 



corolla, 81. 

 Incumbent, when cotyledons are fold- 

 ed with their back to the radicle- 

 Incurved, bent inwards. 

 Indehiscent, not opening, 95. 

 Inflated, swollen. 

 luflexed, same as incurved. 

 Inflorescence, 76. 



" Determinate, 77. 



" _ Indeterminate, 78. 

 Infundibuliform, 72. 

 Innate, adhering to the apex of a 



thing, 83. 

 Integuments of the seed, 101. 

 In'ercellular passages, 32. 

 Internode, the space between two 



nodes. 

 Intexine, 85. 

 Inline, 85. 

 Introrse, 30, turned inwards, towards 



the axis to which it appertains. 

 Involucel, a partial involucre, the or- 

 gan that surrounds the partial 

 umbel. 

 Involucre, 76. 

 Involute, 54. 



Irregular, where the symmetry is de- 

 stroyed by inequaUty of parts. 

 Irritability, 140. 



J. 



Jointed, having joints, articulated. 



K. 



Keel, 74. 



Keeled, formed in the manner of the 



keel of a boat, with a sharp pro- 



ecting ridge. 



