CALENDAR FOR JANUARY. 
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Hirsute. Covered with a coat of soft hairs. 
Hispid. Rough with stiff hairs. 
Hoary. Covered with a bubescens, resembling down. 
Hyaline. Transparent; semi-pellucid. 
Hybrid. Derived from, and partaking of the character of two 
distinct species. 
IIypocrateriform. Shaped like a dish or salver. 
Hypogynous. Under the seed-vessel. 
Hypophyllous. Under the leaves. 
Imbricate. Laid one over another, so that the upper one covers 
the joint of two beneath it, in the manner of tiles upon 
a house. 
Incised. Cut at the margin into small irregular teeth like in¬ 
cisions. 
Incurved. Applied to flowers whose petals fold inwards, or 
towards the centre. 
Indigenous. The natural inhabitants of a country. 
Inflated. Swollen, or blown out. 
Inflexed. Collapsed, or bent in. 
Inflorescence. The entire floral organs, or the disposition of 
the flowers. 
Infundibuliform. Shaped like a funnel. 
Internodes. The spaces occurring between the joints of such 
plants as have them at regular intervals. 
Involucres. The smaller bracts which occur on umbelliferous 
plants. 
Involucrum. Bractae which surround the flowers of Umbelli- 
ferae. 
CALENDAR OF KITCHEN GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR 
JANUARY. 
Vacant ground should receive the first attention, in order to 
prepare it for the crops which will require to be got in through 
the succeeding months of spring and early summer. Frosty 
