forming what is called (rather incorrectly) a monopet alons corolla.
Gamosepcaous; having the sepals all more or lees united, forming a monosepalous calyx.
Geminate ; iu pairs.
Generic; pertaining or relating to a genus.
Geniculate; forming an angle at the joints, like a bent knee, Genus (plural, genera); a group of species which agree with each other in the structure or essential characters. of the flower or fruit; sometimes a genus comprises but a single species.
Germ ; the growing part of a bud.
Germen ; the old'name for the ovary.
Germivatlon; the aprouting, or incipient growth, of a. seed.
Gibbous; hunched, or swelled out, on one or bi,th sides. Glabrous; very smooth, without any roughness or pubes cence.
Gland; a small roundish organ, or appendage, which often. secretes a fluid.
Glandular; furnished with gland..
Glandular-hispid, or glandular-pubeacea/; hairy or pubes cent, and the hairs tipped with glands.
Glaucescent; inclining to, or becoming, glaucous. Glaucous ; silvery ; pale- bluish, or greenish-white ; covered. with a greenish-white meanness.
Globose, or globular; spherical; round on all sides. Glomerate ; densely clustered in small heaps, or irregular heads.
Glomerules; small, dense, roundish clusters.
Glumaceous; chaff like; resembling chaff or glumea. °lames ; the bracts, or outer chaff, embracing the epikelets. of the grasses (calyx of Linn). (See Palea.) Glutinous; viacid; covered with an adhesive fluid.
Grain; fruit of the true gfasses, sometimes called a carp opszs.
Gramineous; grass-like; resembling grasses.
Graniferous ; bearing a grain, or grains.
Graimior; formed of grains or small particles. Gymnospermous; having the seeds naked; i. c. not in closed in a pericarp.
Gynandrous; having the stamens growing on, or adhering; to, the pistil.
Gyncecium; a term designating the pistillate portion of the flower, or the seed-bearing organs, collectively. Gynostegium; the pistil-cover or tube formed by the con nate filaments, in the Asclepias family.
Habit of plants. Their general external appearance and mode of growth, by which they are recognized at eight..
Habitat, or habitatio; the natural or native place of growth.
Halved; one sided, as if one half had been cut off. Radiate; shaped like a halbert; lanceolate, with a divari cate lone on each side of the base.
Head; a dense oundish cluster of sessile flowers. Reptandrous; having seven stamens.
Herbaceous; not woody ; of a tender consistence, and usu ally destructible by frost.
Herbarium; a collection of dried specimens of plants. Herbs; plants which are not woody—of more tender struc ture than trees and shrubs, and usually killed by frost. Heterogamous heads; heads of Syngensious flowers, con taining florets of different structure and sexual charac ter.
Heteropkyllous; having leaves of different forms. Bexamerous; consisting of six parts.
having six stamens of equal length. Ribim; tile scar felt on a seed, at the point of attachment to the funiculus.
Hirsute; rough-haired; clothed with stiffish hairs. Ilispid; bristly; beset with rigid, spreading, bristle-like hairs.
Hoary; covered with a white or whitish pubescence. Homogamous heads; heads of Syngensious flowers, iu which all the florets are of similar structure and the same sexual character.
Hooded. (See G' allute .) Rorie° Alai ovules; when they project from the aide of the cell, pointing neither to base nor apex.
Horn; a process or elongation resembling a born. (See Spur.) Horny; of u texture or conaiatence like horn. (See Car neo us.) Humus. The mould, or soil formed by the decomposition of vegetable matter.
Hyaline; transparent, like glass.
Hybrid; a male; a cross-breed between two varieties, or nearly allied species, partaking of each but different from both.
Hypoqtean; situated, growing, or remaining under ground. Hypogynoaa; inserted beneath the ovary ; i. e. on the recent idle, and free from the surrounding organs. Icosandrous; having about twenty stamens, which are perigyno.is, i. e., growing to, or apparently inserted on the rim of the calyx.