GLOSSARY 



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Ellipsoid Nearly elliptic 



Elongated Long drawn-out 



Entire Without teeth, lobes or di- 

 visions of any sort 



Equitant Astride, as in the leaves 

 of an Iris 



Even-pinnate With all the leaflets 

 paired 



Exserted Projecting beyond the 

 surrounding parts 



Face The broader surface of 

 spikelets, fruits, etc. 



Fascicle A cluster, usually dense 



Fascicled Borne in clusters 



Felted With a dense felt-like coat- 

 ing of hairs 



Fertile Bearing fruit ; bearing pol- 

 len 



Fibrous Consisting of fibres; 

 woven in texture 



Filament The stalk bearing the 

 anther 



Fleshy Thick and watery 



Flower An axis bearing stamens 

 or pistils or both, and usually also 

 sepals and petals 



Foliate With leaflets 



Follicle A dry fruit of one carpel, 

 splitting on one side only 



Fruit A developing or ripened 

 ovary ; often also the axis contain- 

 ing the real fruits 



Galea The hood-like upper lip of 

 a corolla 



Genus A group of related species, 

 as the pine genus, the buttercup 

 genus 



Glabrous Without hairs 



Gland A surface or structure 

 which produces nectar, resin, oil, 



etc.; often a small appendage or 

 projection 



Glandular Bearing glands, or 

 gland-like 



Glaucous Covered with a bloom, 

 a bluish or whitish wax coating 



Globoid Nearly ball-like 



Globose Ball-like 



Glume One of the two small 

 scales found at the base of the 

 grass spikelet 



Hastate Arrow-shaped but with 

 the basal lobes diverging 



Head A dense cluster of sessile 

 flowers, such as that of the aster 

 and sunflower 



Herb A non-woody plant which 

 dies annually, at least down to the 

 ground 



Herbaceous Herb-like, soft 



Humus A rich vegetable mold 



Hyaline Clear 



Imbricated Overlapping like the 

 shingles of a roof 



Imperfect Referring to a flower 

 which lacks either stamens or pis- 

 til 



Included Not projecting beyond 

 the other parts 



Indehiscent Applied to fruits that 

 do not split to let out the seeds 



Inferior Applied to an organ situ- 

 ated below another one, especially 

 to the ovary when below the other 

 parts 



Inflated Swollen 



Inflexed Bent in 



Interrupted Used of a flower clus- 

 ter with large spaces between the 

 parts 



Intruded Grown inwards 



