Gamoeepalous ; having the sepals all more or leas united, forming a monoeepaions calyx.
Geminate; in pairs.
Generic; pertaining or relating to a genes.
Genictdate; forming an angle at the joints, like a bent knee, Geniis (plural, genera); a group of species which agree wan. each other in the structure or essential characters of the flower or fruit; sometimes a genus comprises but a single species.
Germ rthe growing part of a bud.
Germen ; the old name for the ovary.
Germination; the sprouting, or incipient growth, of a seed.
Gibbous; hunched, or swelled ant, on one or both 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 glands.
Glandular-kis pid, or glandular-pubescent; hairy or pubes cent, and the hairs tipped with glands.
Glaucescent ; inclining to, or becoming, glaucous. Glaucous ; silvery; pale-bluish, or greetush-white covered with a greenish-white meatiness.
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. Glumes ; the bracts, or outer chaff, embracing the spikelets ol the grasses (calyx of Linn). (See Pales.) Glutinous; viscit• covered with an adhesive fluid.
Grain; fruirof the true grasses, sometimes called a cary opera .
Gramineous ; grass-like; resembling grasses.
Graniferoue ; bearing a grain, or grains.
Granular; formed of grains or small particles. Gymnoepermonsi havine the seeds naked; i. e. not in closed in a pericarp.
Gynandrous; having the stamens growing on, or adhering to, the pistil.
Gyntecium; 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 end mode of growth, by which they are recognized at sight.
Habitat, or habitatio; the natural or native place of Halved; one sided, as if one half had been cut off.
Ha itate; shaped like a halbert; lanceolate, with a divari cata lone on each aide of the base.
Head; a dense oundish cluster of sessile flowers. lleptandrous; 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, coo taiulng florets of different structure and sexual charac ter.
Heterophyllous; having leaves of different forms. consisting of six parte.
exandrous; having six stamens of equal length. Hilon; the scar lett on a need, at the puint of attachment to the funiculue.
Hirsute; rough-haired; clothed with stiffish hairs. Hispid; bristly; beset with rigid, spreading, bristle-like hairs.
Hoary; covered with a white or whitish pubescence. Homogamous heads; heads of Syngensious flowers, in which all the florets are of similar structure and the same sexual character.
Hooded. (See Cucullate.) Horizonte l 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 a texture or consistence like horn. (See Cor neous.) Humus. The mould, or eoil formed by the decomposition of vegetable matter.
Hyaline; transparent, like glass.
Hybrid; a mule; a cross-breed between two varieties, or nearly allied species, partaking of each but different from Ilypoycean; situated, growing, or remaining underground. Hypogynous; inserted beneath the ovary ; i. e. on the recept eclo, and free from the surrounding organs. lcosandrous; having about twenty stamens, which are perigynoue, 1. e., growing to, or apparently inserted on the rim of the calyx.
Imbricate, or imbricated; the edges lying closely and reg ularly over the next series, like shingles on a roof, or scales on a fish.