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GLANDULOSE, GLANDULIFEROUS. 

 Bearing glands. 



GLANDULOSO-SERRATE. Having ser- 

 ratures tipped by glands. 



GLANDULAR. Covered with hairs hear- 

 ing glands upon their tips ; as the fruit of 

 roses, the pods of Aclenocarpus, &c. 



GLANS. An inferior fruit, one-celled by 

 abortion, uot dehiscing, containing one or 

 two seeds, and seated in a cupule ; as in the 

 acorn. 



GLAPHYRIA. A genus of myrtaceous 

 shrubs, natives of the Malayan islands, &c. 

 The limb of the calyx is flve-lobed ; petals 

 five : fruit succulent, with five many-seeded 

 compartments. G. nitida is called by the 

 Malays the Tree of Long Life, probably be- 

 cause it is enabled to grow at greater ele- 

 vations than other forest trees. The leaves 

 are used as a substitute for tea. [M. T. M.] 



GLAREOSE. Growing in gravelly places. 



GLASSWORT. Salicornia. — , PRICKLY. 

 Salsola Kali. — , "WHITE. Suceda mari- 

 tima. 



GLAUCE8CEXT. Dull green, passing 

 into greyish-blue. 



GLAUCIUM. A genus of herbaceous 

 plants belonging to the Papaveraceee, well 

 marked by their very long pod-like two- 

 valvedand two-celled capsule. The Yellow 

 Horn Poppy, G. luteum, is a common plant 

 on the sandy sea-shore of Europe and some 

 parts of North America, where it may be 

 detected even in winter by its large, rough, 

 deeply-cut leaves of adecided glaucous hue. 

 In summer it attains the height of about 

 two feet, and is made conspicuous not only 

 by the white hue of its foliage, but by its 

 large flowers of four delicate pale-yellow 

 petals, which last only for a day, and are 

 succeeded by very long curved pods, which 

 are rough with tubercles. G. phceniceum, 

 a smaller species, with scarlet flowers, and 

 a black spot at the base of each petal, is 

 said to have been found in England, but is 

 not considered a native. Several other 

 species, with yellow or scarlet flowers, are 

 cultivated, and are considered ornamental 

 plants ; they are either annual or biennial, 

 and abound in a copper-coloured acrid 

 juice, which is said to be poisonous and 

 to occasion madness. German, Gehiirnte 

 scholkraut. [C. A. J.] 



GLAUCOUS. Covered with a fine bloom, 

 like the plum or the cabbage-leaf. 



GLAUX. A pretty little herbaceous per- 

 ennial, belonging to the Primula cea. The 

 flower is destitute of a corolla, but the bell- 

 shaped calyx is coloured and flve-lobed; 

 the capsule is globose, five-valved, and 

 contains about five seeds. G. maritima, 

 the only species, grows abundantly on most 

 parts of the sea-coast, just above high- 

 watermark, and in saltmarshes. Theroots, 

 which creep extensively, are composed of 

 long zigzag fibres, and send up numerous 

 matted stems,four to five inches high, and 

 densely clothed with oblong fleshy smooth 



entire leaves, which are pale underneath 

 and salt to the taste. The flesh-coloured 

 flowers are solitary, nearly sessile, and ax- 

 illary. The glaucous hue of the leaves 

 sufficiently accounts for the systematic 

 name ; but whence it derived one of its 

 English names, Sea Milkwort, is not so 

 plain. Another name, which is appropri- 

 ate enough, is Black Saltwort. French, 

 Glauce ; German, Milchkraut. [C. A. J,] 



GLAYEUL. (Fr.) Gladiolus communis. 

 — PUAXT. Iris foetidissima. 



GLEBA, GLEBCLA. The peridium or 

 the fleshy part of certain f ungals. 



GLEBUL^F, (adj. GLEBULOSE). Little 

 roundish elevations of the thallus of li- 

 chens ; also the spores of certain fungals. 



GLECHOMA. The Linna;an generic 

 name of Nepeta Glechoma and other allied 

 species of Nepeta. G. hedvracea, Ground 

 Ivy, is a well-known trailing herbaceous 

 plant, with kidney-shaped crenate leaves 

 and violet-purple flowers ; formerly much 

 esteemed for its supposed medicinal vir- 

 tues. Its leaves are slightly bitter and 

 aromatic, on which account it was used to 

 give a flavour to ale ; hence its old names 

 Ale-hoof and Tun-hoof. The juice was 

 recommended to be dropped into the ears 

 to cure singing in that organ ; mixed with 

 wine, and dropped into the eyes, it was 

 supposed to cure inflammation ; taken as 

 snuff, it was a specific for a head-ache ; and 

 an extract or decoction, mixed with honey 

 or sugar-candy, was a favourite remedy in 

 complaints of the chest. Village herbalists 

 still hold it in repute, and use it, when 

 dried, as a substitute for tea. Gerarde enu- 

 merates among its other virtues, that, 

 ' boiled in mutton-broth, it helpeth weake 

 and aking backs;' a prescription which 

 many modern physicians would no doubt 

 endorse, if administered with the same 

 accompaniment. French, Terrete ; German, 

 Gundelreben. [C.A.J.] 



GLECHON. A genus of plants of the 

 labiate order, distinguished by the tube 

 of the corolla being as long as the calyx; 

 the two lower stamens only present and fer- 

 tile ; and the style bifid at the apex, the up- 

 per lobe very short, the lower long and com- 

 pressed. The species are Brazilian shrubs 

 of humble growth, having the leaves 

 usually small, the flowers in groups vary- 

 ing from two to six, and red, blue, or yel- 

 lowish in colour. [G. D.] 



GLEDITSCHIA. A small genus of thorny 

 leguminous trees, inhabiting various parts 

 of North America and China. They have 

 once or twice pinnated leaves, and small 

 dense spikes of inconspicuous greenish 

 flowers, some of which are perfect, while 

 others are of one sex only. The pod is flat, 

 and contains either one or several flat 

 seeds, surrounded by a sweet pulpy sub- 

 stance, and separated from each other by 

 transverse divisions. The three-thorned 

 Acacia, or Honey-locust tree, G. triacanthos, 

 is a native of the United States, and is 

 commonly cultivated, both there and in 



