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latter only is the fruit, while the former is but the case or vessel 
which contains it. 
BYutes’cent. Becoming shrubby. 
Frw’tex. A shrub. 
Ful‘cra. Props, supports; as the petiole, peduncle, &c. 
Ful’vous Yellowish. - 
Fun’gi. The plural of Fungus, a mushroom. ; 
Fun’gous. Growing rapidly, with a soft texture like the Fungi. 
Fun’nel-form. ‘Tubular at the bottom and gradually expanded at the 
top. 
Fu’siform. Spindle shaped, a root thick at the top and tapering down- 
wards. 
G. 
Ga‘liea. A helmet. 
Gem’ma. A bud containing a plant seated upon the stem and 
branches, and covered with scales, in order to defend it from inju- 
ry. The bud resembles the seed in containing the future plant in 
embryo; but this embryo is destitute of a radicle, though if the bud 
is planted in the earth, a radicle is developed. 
Gemma’ceous. Belonging to a bud. . Made of the scales of a bud. 
Generic name. The name of a genus, 
Genic’ulate. Bent like a knee. P 
Ge’nus, (the plural of genus is genera,) a family of plants similar in 
their flower and fruit. Plants of the same genus usually possess 
similar medicinal powers. 
Ve The lower part of the pistil which afterwards becomes the 
ruit. ; 
Germina’tion. The swelling of a seed, and the unfolding of its em- 
bryo. 
Gib’bous. Swelled out commonly on one side. 
Glabel/lous. Bald, without covering. 
Gila’brous. Sleek, without hairiness. 
Gland. A small appendage, which seems to perform some office of 
secretion or exhalation. 
Gland’ular. Having hairs tipped with little heads or glands. 
Glauc’ous. Sea green, mealy, and easily rubbed off. 
Glome. A roundish head of flowers. 
Glom’erate. Many branchlets terminated by little heads. 
‘Glume. ‘The scales or chaff of grasses, composing the calyx and co- 
rolla, the lower ones 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 univalve, if two, bivalve. 
Glu’tinous. Viscid, adhesive. 
Gon, (from gonu, a knee or angle;) as pentagon, five angled; hexa- 
' gon, six angled; polygon, many angled. 
Grafv/ing. Is the process of uniting the branches or buds of two or 
more separate 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. "7 
