GLOSSASY. 
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Habit ; the general appearance of a plant. 
Haft ; a winged leafstalk ; the linear part of a spathulate leaf 
or petal. 
Hastate ; enlarged at the base into two lobes directed nearly hori- 
zontally. 
Head ; a close terminal collection of flowers surrounded by an 
involucre. 
Helmet ; the hooded upper part of a flower. 
Helmet-shaped ; ai'ched and concave like a helmet. 
Herbaceous; the parts of plants which are not woody; also 
organs, or parts of them, of a green colom*. 
Hermaphrodite ; having both sexes in one flower. 
HUum or hile ; the mark on a seed which indicates its place of 
attachment. 
Hispid ; covered with stifl?" hairs. 
Hoary ; with greyish-white dowTi. 
Hooded ; formed into a hood at the end. 
Hybrid a mule. 
Hypogynous; springing fix)m below the base of the ovaiy and 
not attached to the calyx. 
Imbricate ; an-anged over each other like the tiles of a roof. 
Incise ; deeply cut. 
Included; not extending beyond the organs surrounding it. 
Incumbent ; when the radicle is applied to the hack, not edges, 
of the cotyledons. 
Incurved ; curved inwards. 
Indefinite ; many but uncertain in number. 
Indehiscent ; not bm-sting. 
Indeterminate ; inflorescence having always a terminal leaf-bud. 
Induplicate; when the edges of organs arranged in a yalvate 
manner are folded inwaixls. 
Indusium ; a thin membrane often covering the clusters of cap- 
sules of Fems. 
Inferior ; an inferior calyx or corolla is wholly free from the 
ovary ; the reverse of superior. 
Iivflexed ; curved inwards. 
Inflorescence ; arrangement of the flowers. 
Inserted ; growing upon. 
Intemode; the space between two nodes ; a joint. ■ 
Interruptedly pinnate ; when pairs of small alternate with large 
pinnae. 
Introrse ; anthers having the slit by which the pollen escapes 
directed towards the ovary. 
Inverse ; inverted. An embryo is so called when its radicle is 
directed towards a point at the opposite end of the seed 
from the hile. 
Involucels ; the involucres of secondary umbels. 
