GLOSSARY. 
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Forked ; like a fork of two prongs. 
Frond ; the leaflike part of Ferns. 
Fruit ; the seed-vessel with its ripe contents and any external 
appendages. 
Fruit-hearing ; the state of the inflorescence when the fruit 
is ripe or nearly so, contradistinguished from flower- 
hearing. 
Fruticose ; shrubby. 
Fugacious ; soon falling ofl". 
Funnel -shaped ; tubular below, but gradually enlarging 
upwards. 
Furcate ; forked. 
Fusiform ; spindle-shaped ] thick, tapering to each end. 
GamosejMlous ; gamopetalous ; when the sepals or petals are 
joined by their edges so as apparently to form one. 
Germen ; the ovary. 
Gibbous'; swollen on one side. 
Glabrous ; without hairs or other clothing. 
Gland; a wartlike cellular secreting organ usually raised 
above the surface. 
Glandular ; having glands. 
Glandular-hairy ; having hairs tipped with glands. 
Glandular-serrate ; having short teeth tipped with glands. 
Glaucous ; green with a whitish-blue lustre. 
Globose ; round like a globe. 
Glumes ; the scales enclosing the spikelet of flowers in 
Grasses ; the imbricate bracts enclosing the flowers of 
Sedges. 
Glumifermis ; having flowers covered by glumes. 
Granular ; covered with minute projecting points. 
Habit ; the general appearance of a plant. 
Haft ; a winged leaf -stalk ; the linear part of a spathulate 
leaf or petal. 
Hastate ; enlarged at the base into two lobes directed nearly 
horizontally. 
Head ; a close terminal collection of flowers surrounded by an 
involucre. 
Helmet ; the hooded upper part of a flower. 
Helmet-shaped ; arched and concave like a helmet. 
Herbaceous ; the parts of plants which are not woody ; also 
organs, or parts of them, of a gi-een colour. 
Hermaphrodite ; having both sexes in one flower. 
Hilum or hile ; the mark on a seed which indicates its place 
of attachment. 
