HERMAPHRODITE, having both stamen and pistii in the samn 
flower: jilate 1, fig. 1. 
IJEXAGVNIA, having 6 styles. 
HEXANDRIA, the sixth class of plants, containing snch hermaphrodite 
ones as have 6 stamina all of the same length : vhite 1, fig. 6. 
HIRSUTE, rough with hairs. 
HISPID, beset with rather stiff bristles. 
HOARY^, clothed with a white pubescence. 
IIUMESCENT, gradually and slowly imbibing moisture. 
HYAUliVE, transparent, like glass. 
HYMENOPTERA, the fifth order of insce'ts, comprising such as have 
wings, all of them membranous, and are armed with a sting : 
ImeBi), fig. 10. 
ICOSANDRIA, the twelfth class of plants, including those hermaphro- 
dite ones which have twenty or more, stamina, fixed to the calyx or 
petals and not to the receptacle : 1, fig. 12. 
IMBRICATE, placed over each other at the edges, like the tiles of a 
house. 
INCISORS, the front or cutting teeth o{ animals. 
INCONSPICUOUS, in mineralogy applied to substances which are 
devoid of lustre or metallic splendor. 
INCURVED, bent or curved inwards. 
INDURATING, in mineralogy, becoming harder by the adlion of fire, 
as clays. 
INFLAMMABLI‘1, emitting flames when burnt. 
INFLECTED, bent inwards. 
INFLORESCENCE, the peculiar mode of flowering. 
INERACILD, abruplly bent inwards, as if broken. 
INIUSORIA, the fifth order of worms, comprehending those minute 
animalcules, destitute of feelers, generally not visible to the naked 
eye, and which are mostly found in various infusions. 
INQLTNANT, soiling the fingers when rubbed between them. Leav- 
ing coloured marks when rubbed against other substances. 
INTERNODF., the space between one knot or joint and another. 
INIERRUPTEDLY-PINNATE, having smaller leafets or segments 
between each pair of larger ones : jolaie 5, fig. 9. 
INI ERSCAPULAR, placed between the shoulders, or joints of insertion 
ol the wings: Birds, fig. 1; t. 
INTESIINA5 the first class of worms, consisting of simple naked ani- 
mals, without limbs. 
INIORSION, the turning or twisting in any particular diredlion. 
I'^t attradlcd by the magnet 
INI LAIESCENT, swelling or frothing w'hen exposed to the adtion of 
fire. 
^ small or partial involucre : jj/aie 7, fig. 5 ; c. 
INVOLUCRE, a species of calyx placed beneath and remote from tha 
“IS in umbelliferous plants : plate 7, fig- 5 ; b. 
INVOLUIE, rolled inwards on both sides towards the upper surface ! 
plate 8, fig, 15, 
