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seems to perform some office of se¬ 
cretion or exhalation. 
Glan'dular. Having hairs tipped with 
little heads or glands. 
Glau'cous. Sea-green, mealy, and eas¬ 
ily rubbed off. 
Glome . A roundish head of flowers. 
Gloni'erate. Many branchlets termina¬ 
ted by little heads. 
Glume. T lie scales or chaff of grasses, 
composing the calyx and corolla ; the 
lowerones are called the calyx, all 
others the corolla ; each scale, chaff, 
or husk, is called a valve ; if there 
is but one, the flower is called uni¬ 
valve, if two, bivalve. 
Glutinous. Viscid, adhesive. 
Gon. (From gonu, a knee or angle;) 
as pentagon, five-angled; hexagon, 
six-angled; polygon, many-angled. 
Grafting, is the process of uniting the 
branches or buds of two or more se¬ 
parate trees. The bud or branch of 
one tree, is inserted into the bark of 
another, and the tree which is thus 
engrafted upon is called the stock. 
Gi'am'ina. Grasses and grass-like 
plants. Mostly found in the class 
Triandria. 
Gramin'eous. Grass-like ; such plants 
are also called culmiferous. 
Grandijlo'rus. Having large flowers. 
Gram'ular. Formed of grains, or cov¬ 
ered with grains. 
Grave' olens. Having a strong odour. 
Grega'rious. In flocks, plants growing 
together in groups. 
Groov'ed. Marked with deep lines. 
Gru'mose. Thick, crowded. 
Gymnocar]/es. (From gumnos , naked, 
and karpos , fruit.) Mirbel’s first 
class of fruits, containing such as 
have fruit without being covered or 
concealed. 
Gymnosper'mia. (From gum,nos : naked, 
and sperma , seed.) Having naked 
seeds. 
Gpnan'drous. Stamens growing upon 
" the pistil. 
Gyn'ia. From the Greek, signifying 
pistil. 
H 
Habita'tio or Habitat. The native sit¬ 
uation of plants. 
Habit. The external appearance of a 
plant, by which it is known at first 
sight. 
Hair. See Pilus. 
Hair-MYo. See Capillary. 
Hal'berd-f orm. See Hastate. 
Hand- form. See Palmate. 
Hang'ing. See Pendent. 
Has'tate. Shaped like a halberd; it dif¬ 
fers from arrow-shaped in having the 
side processes more distinct and di¬ 
vergent. 
Head. A dense collection of flowers, 
nearly sessile. 
Heart. See Corculum and Corcle. 
Heart-form. See Cordate. 
Hel'met. The concave upper lip of a 
labiate flower. 
HelminthoVogy. The science which 
treats of worms. 
Hepat'ic. Liver-like. 
Herb. A plant which has not a woody 
stem. 
Herba'ceous. Not woody. 
Her'bage. Every part of a plant except 
the root and fructification. 
Herba'rium , A collection of .dried 
plants. * 
Herb'ist. One who collects and sells 
plants. 
Hexag'onal. Six-cornered. 
Hi'ans. Gaping. 
Hi'lum. The scar or mark on a seed 
at the place of attachment of the 
seed to the seed-vessel. 
Hir'sute. Rough with hairs. 
His'pid. Bristly, more than hirsute. 
Hoary. Whitish-coloured, having a 
scaly mealiness, notunlike glaucous. 
Holera'ceous. Suitable for culinary 
purposes. The term is derived from 
holus , signifying pot-herbs. One of 
the natural orders of Linnaeus, call¬ 
ed holeracece , includes such plants as 
are us.ed for the table, or in the econ¬ 
omy of domestic affairs. 
Hon'eycup. See Nectary. 
Hood'ed. See Cucullate, or cowled. 
Hora'rius. Continuing but an hour. 
Horizontal. Parallel to the horizon. 
Horn. See Spur. 
Hum'ilis. Low, humble. 
Husk. The larger kind of glume, as 
the husks of Indian corn. 
Hyber'nalis. Growing in winter. 
Hy'brid. A vegetable produced by the 
mixture of two species: the seeds of 
hybrids are not fertile. 
Hy'po. (From upo, under.) Much 
used in the composition of scientific 
terms. 
Hypocrater'iform. Salver-shaped, with 
a tube abruptly expanded into aflat 
border. 
Hypog'ynous. Under the style. 
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IchthyoVogy. The science of fishes. 
Icosan'drous. Having about twenty 
stamens growing on the calyx. 
Im'bricate. Lying over, like scales, or 
the shingles of a roof. 
Imper'fect. Wanting the stamen or pistil. 
