GLOSSARY OP BOTANICAL TERMS. 
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Glareosis locis, gravelly places, where plants delight in gravel. 
Glaueophyllus, a blueisli, or azure-coloured leal. 
Globoso radi v, a round root. 
Globnlaris scab ities, a species of glandular roughness, scarcely visible to 
the naked eye, the small grains of which are exactly globular. 
Gloehoides, the small points of the pubes ot plants. Li mucus applies this 
term only to the liatrii Iriglochoids, with three hooked points. 
Glomerata *pitat, (lowers crowded together in a globular form. 
Gluma, a husk, or cliafl', species of calyx peculiar to corn and grasses. 
Glutinositas, like glue or paste. 
Gramina, grasses, one of the seven families of the vegetable kingdom. 
Grauulata radix, roots consisting of many little knobs, like seeds or grain, 
attached to one another bv small strings as in saxifraga grauulata. 
Gymnospermia, naked seeded, the first order of the class didynamia. 
Gynandria, when the male and female parts are joined together, the twen- 
tieth class in the Linmean system. 
Habitnalis character, the character nr description of a plant, taken from its 
habit, which consists in the placentio, radifieatio, ramificatio, foliatio, sti- 
pulation pubesccntia, infiorescentia. 
Habitus, the external appearance ; Limueus defines it, the conformity or 
affinity that the congeners of vegetables have to one another, in placen- 
tation, radification, tic. 
liamosa seta, iiooked bristles. 
Hastatnm folium, leaves resembling the head of a spear or halberd. 
Hemisphericus calyx, half round, or half a sphere. 
Heptandria, seven miles, the seventh class of the sexual system. 
Herba, an herb; according to Limueus, it is the part of the. vegetable 
which arises from the root; it is terminated by the fructification, and 
comprehends the stem, leaf, props, and hibeinaculu. 
Herbaceaa ylanttc, are perennial plants, which annually perish down to the 
root. 
Herbaceous caulis, stalks that die annually. 
Hermaphrodites Jlos, flowers that contain both sexes, as autheraand stigma. 
llesperidm, an order of plants iu the fragnieuta methodi uatiualis of 
Linnaeus. 
Hexagonus caulis, a stalk with six angles. 
Hexandria, the sixth class in the sexual system, which produce herma- 
phrodite flowers, with six stamina of equal length. 
Hexagynia; an order of plants that produce six styles. 
llexapetala corolla, flowers consisting of six petals. 
Hexnphyllis calyx, a flower cup consisting of six leaves. 
Hians corolla, a monopetalons flower that is gaping. 
1 lirsii tus, rough, hairy, 
Hispidns caulis, a stalk covered with strong fragile bristles. 
Holeracea, pot herbs, an order of plants in the fragmenta methodi naturalis 
of Linnmns. 
Horizoutalis Jlos, flowers growing witli their disk parallel to the horizon. 
Hibernaculum winter-lodge, tlic part of a plant that incloses and secures 
the embryo from external injuries. 
Hybiida, a" bastard, a monstrous production of two plants of different spe- 
cies, like ttic mules in the animal creation. 
Hypocrateriformis corolla, a monopetalous flower shaped like a cup or alver. 
Icosandria, the twelfth class in the second system, 
Imberbis corolla, a flower without a beard. 
Imbricatus, tiled, when the scales of a stalk, or flower cup, lie over one 
another in the manner of tiles upon a house. 
ImmutatsE, unaltered. 
Impar, odd, applied to a pinnated leaf terminating in an odd lobe. 
Inequalis corolla, an unequal flower. 
lnanis caulis, hollow or empty stalks. 
I ncunuin, fell am, leaves covered with whitish down 
