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INDEX AND DICTIONARY 
Glumes : the chaffy bracts or scales which make 
the coverings of the flowers of Grasses, 
Sedges, &c. 
Gourd-Fruit, 77. 
Grafting, 56. 
Grain, 78, 79. 
Granular : composed of small particles or grains. 
Growth, 89. 
Gymnospermous (naked-seeded), Gymnosper- 
mous Plants, 76, 97. 
Gynandrous : stamens borne on the pistil or 
style, as in the Orchis Family. 
Hairy : bearing or covered with hairs, especially 
rather long ones. 
Halberd-shaped, 48. 
Hastate : same as halberd-shaped, 48. 
Head, 61. 
Heart-shaped, 48. 
Heart- wood, 43. 
Helmet : a name given to the upper sepal of Ac- 
onite (Fig. 254), &c. 
Herbaceous, 37. 
Herbarium : the botanist’s collection of dried 
plants. 
Herbs, 26. 
Hilum : the scar of the seed, or point by which 
it is attached, 83. 
Hirsute : hairy with stiff or beard-like hairs. 
Hispid : bearing still stiffer and stouter hairs or 
bristles. 
Hoary : grayish-white, or covered with a fine 
and close whitish down. 
Hooded : shaped like a hood or cowl ; concave 
or arched. 
Horny : having about the texture of horn. 
Hybrid : a cross between two species. 
Imbricate or Imbricated : the parts overlapping ; 
some of them outside and others inside in 
the bud. 
Imperfect Flowers, 68. 
Incised : irregularly and rather deeply cut, 49. 
Included : enclosed ; not sticking out. 
Incomplete Flowers, 67. 
Incurved : curving inwards. 
Indefinite : too numerous to be readily counted, 
and not uniform in number. 
Indehiscent : not splitting open, 78. 
Indigenous : native to the country. 
‘Inferior : growing beneath some other organ ; as 
the calyx beneath the ovary, 75. 
Inflated : bladder-like, as if blown up. 
Indexed : bent inwards. 
Inflorescence, 58. 
Inoculating, 56. 
Inserted : borne on, or attached to, 71, 75. 
Insertion : the place or the mode of the attach- 
ment of any organ to that which bears it. 
Interruptedly pinnate, 52. 
Inversely heart-shaped, 49. 
“ lance-shaped, 47. 
“ ovate, 47. 
Involucel, 62. 
Involucre, 62. 
Involute : with the end or edges rolled inwards. 
Irregular Flowers, or Corolla, &c., 71, 72. 
Jagged, 49. 
Jointed : separating by a joint, or dividing across 
into two or more pieces. 
Keel : a projecting ridge on the under surface of 
a leaf, as of Day-Lily, &c. The two lower 
petals of a papilionaceous corolla united are 
also termed the Keel , or Keel Petals , 141. 
Keeled : furnished with a keel or projecting 
ridge on the lower side. 
Kernel of a seed, 83. 
Key, or Key-Fruit, 78, 79. 
Kidney-shaped, 48. 
Labiate : two-lipped, 72. 
Laciniate : slashed ; cut into narrow and irregu- 
lar lobes. 
Lance-linear, 47. 
Lance-oblong, 47. 
Lanceolate or Lance-shaped, 46. 
Lateral : belonging to, or borne on, the side. 
Leaflets : the pieces of a compound leaf, 51. 
Leaf-buds : buds which develop leaves. 
Leaf-scars, 26. 
Leaves, 6, 43. 
Legume : a pea-pod, 80. 
Limb of a corolla, &c., 72. 
Lips, 72. 
Linear, 46. Linear-lanceolate, 47. 
Lobed : having lobes, 49, 50. 
Lobes : any strong divisions of a leaf, &c., 49. 
Lower side of a flower : that which looks away 
from the stem, and towards the bract. » 
Lyre-shaped, a pinnatifid leaf with the end lobe 
largest and rounded, as in Radish (Fig. 57), 
28 . 
