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_Fleshy._ Succulent; juicy.
_Flower._ An axis bearing stamens or pistils or both (calyx and corolla usually accompany these).
_Fluted._ With rounded ridges.
_Fruit._ The part of a plant which bears the seed.
_Germinate._ To sprout, as of a seed.
_Gibbous._ Swollen on one side.
_Glabrous._ Neither rough, p.u.b.escent, nor hairy; smooth.
_Gland._ Secreting surface or structure; a protuberance having the appearance of such an organ.
_Glandular._ Bearing glands.
_Glaucous._ Covered or whitened with a bloom.
_Globose._ Spherical or nearly so.
_Globular._ Nearly globose.
_Gregarious._ Growing in groups or colonies.
_Habit._ The general appearance of a plant, best seen from a distance.
_Habitat._ The place where a plant naturally grows, as in water, clay soil, marsh, etc.
_Hairy._ With long hairs.
_Halberd-shaped._ Like an arrow-head, but with the basal lobes pointing outward nearly at right angles. Page XII.
_Heartwood._ The dead central portion of the trunk or large branch of a tree.
_Hirsute._ Covered with rather coa.r.s.e or stiff hairs.
_h.o.a.ry._ Gray-white with a fine, close p.u.b.escence.
_h.o.m.ogeneous._ Uniform; composed of similar parts or elements.
_Hybrid._ A cross between two nearly related species, formed by the action of the pollen of one upon the pistil of the other, yielding an intermediate form.
_Imbricate._ Overlapping, like the s.h.i.+ngles on a roof.
_Indehiscent._ Not opening by valves or slits; remaining persistently closed.
_Indigenous._ Native and original to a region.
_Inflorescence._ The flowering part of a plant, and especially its arrangement.
_Internode._ The portion of a stem between two nodes.
_Involucral._ Pertaining to an involucre.
_Involucre._ A circle of bracts surrounding a flower or cl.u.s.ter of flowers.
_Keeled._ With a central ridge like the keel of a boat.
_Laciniate._ Cut into narrow, pointed lobes.
_Lanceolate._ Lance-shaped, broadest above the base and tapering to the apex, but several times longer than wide. Page xii.
_Lateral._ Situated on the side of a branch.
_Leaf._ The green expansions borne by the branches of a tree, consisting of a blade with or without a petiole.
_Leaflet._ One of the small blades of a compound leaf.
_Leaf-scar._ The scar left on a twig by the falling of a leaf. Page XVI.
_Legume._ A pod-like fruit composed of a solitary carpel and usually splitting open by both sutures (_Leguminosae_).
_Lenticels._ Corky growths on young bark which admit air to the interior of a twig or branch.
_Linear._ Long and narrow, with parallel edges (as pine needles). Page XII.
_Lobe._ Any division of an organ, especially if rounded.
_Lobed._ Provided with a lobe or lobes. Page XIII.
_l.u.s.trous._ Glossy; s.h.i.+ning.
_Membranaceous._ Thin and somewhat translucent.
_Midrib._ The central vein of a leaf or leaflet.
_Monoecious._ Unis.e.xual, with staminate and pistillate flowers on the same individual.
_Mucilaginous._ Slimy; resembling or secreting mucilage or gum.
_Mucronate._ Tipped with a small, abrupt point. Page XII.
