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BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Galericulate (galericidatus) ; furnished 
with a tuft or plume. 
Geniculate (genicidatus) ; knee-jointed, 
bent abruptly like a knee ; the stems of many- 
grasses are knee-jointed. 
Gibbous (gibbosus) ; tumid or swollen, 
projecting, very convex, as in the leaves of 
many succulent plants ; this term is properly 
restricted to solid convexities. 
Globose (globosus, sphcericus) ; having 
nearly the figure of a true globe or sphere, as 
in many seeds ; globulose has the same signi- 
fication. 
Gongyloides ; knob-like, having an irregu- 
lar roundish figure. 
Grumous (grumosus) ; having the form of 
little clustered grains. 
Hamose (hamosus) ; bent in the form of a 
hook ; same as hooked. 
Hebetate (hebetatus) ; blunt, having a soft 
obtuse termination. 
Hians; gaping, opening with a widely 
spreading orifice. 
Hooded (cucidlatus) ; when the apex or 
sides of a plane body are curved inwards, so 
as to resemble a hood ; the leaves of Pelar- 
gonium cucullatum are of this form. 
Incised (incisus) ; cut, divided by regular 
incisions. 
Inflated (inflatus) ; bladdery, thin mem- 
branous, and swelling equally, as if puffed 
out with air. 
Irregular (irregularis) ; this term is ap- 
plied when the regularity of the parts is 
broken up by inequalities : the pansy is an 
irregular flower, because all the parts are not 
alike in form. 
Lacerated (lacerus) ; torn, irregularly 
divided by deep incisions. 
Lachrymoeform (lachrymceformis) ; tear- 
shaped ; this differs from pear-shaped, in not 
having its sides contracted ; the seed of the 
apple is an example. 
Laciniate (laciniatus) ; slashed, divided 
by deep taper-pointed incisions : when these 
incisions are divided by others at right angles, 
the plant is called squarroso-laciniatus . 
Lamellar (lamellatus) ; plated, having 
two little plates at the apex, as the style of 
some plants. 
Lenticular (lenticularis) ; lens-shaped, re- 
sembling a double convex lens, as in the seeds 
of Amaranihus. 
Linguiform (linguiformis) ; tongue-shaped, 
long, fleshy, plano-convex, and obtuse, as in 
the leaves of many aloes. 
Lobate [lobatus) ; lobed, partly divided by 
a determinate number of segments ; thus 
bilobate is two-lobed, tribolate three-lobed, 
and so on. 
Loculose (loculosus, septatus, phragmiger) ; 
partitioned, divided by internal partitions into 
cells, as the pith of the plant which produces 
the rice-paper of the Chinese. This term is 
never applied to fruits. 
Longicornu ; long-spurred, or long-horned. 
Mamm&form (mammceformis) ; teat-like, 
nipple-formed. 
Meniscoid (meniscoideus) ; like patelli- 
form, but thinner in substance. 
Modioli form (modioliformis); nave-shaped, 
hollow, round, depressed, with a narrow orifice. 
Molendinaceus ; mill- sail-shaped, that is, 
having many longitudinal wings projecting 
from a convex surface, as in the seeds of some 
Umbelliferous plants. 
Moniliform (moniliformis) ; necklace- 
shaped, that is, terete or cylindrical, and con- 
tracted at regular intervals, so as to resemble 
a string of beads ; some seed-pods and some 
stems are of this form. 
Mucronate (mucronatus) ; terminated 
abruptly by a rigid short point, as in the leaf 
of Statice mucronata. 
Multicuspis ; many-pointed, having nume- 
rous rigid points. 
JKuscariform (^muscariformis) ; brush- 
shaped., formed like a brush or broom, that is, 
furnished with long hairs towards one end of 
a slender body. 
Muscifera; resembling a fly; the fly or- 
chis is an example. 
Mutic (muticus) ; pointless ; applied in 
contrast with some other terms signifying 
pointed ; a term of contrast. 
Napiform (napiformis) ; turnip-shaped, 
having the figure of a depressed sphere. 
Nasutus; having a fancied resemblance to 
the figure of a nose. 
Navicular (navicularis) ; boat-shaped, that 
is, of the figure of a boat ; concave, tapering 
to each end, with a keel externally ; the 
glumes of the canary grass are of this form, 
which is hardly different from keeled. 
Nodose (nodosus) ; nearly the same as mo- 
niliform, having many nodi or knots. 
Normal (normalis); applied when the or- 
dinary structure is not deviated from. 
Obbate (obbatus) ; shaped like a bottle or 
flagon. 
Obconical (obconicus) ; inversely cone- 
shaped. 
Obcordate (obcordatus) ; inversely heart- 
shaped. 
Obovate (obovatus); inversely egg-shaped. 
Obtuse (obtusus) ; blunt, terminated by a 
rounded end. 
Ovoidal (ovoideus) ; having an ovate or 
egg-shaped figure ; applied to a solid. 
Parted (partitus) ; divided into a deter- 
minate number of lobes, which extend nearly 
to the base of the segment to which they be- 
long : bipartitus is two-parted, tripartitus 
three-parted, and so on. 
