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_Herbaceous._ Having the characters of an herb; leaf-like in color and texture.
_Heterocarpous._ Producing more than one kind of fruit.
_Heterogamous._ Bearing two kinds of flowers.
_Hilum._ The scar or point of attachment of the seed.
_Hirsute._ p.u.b.escent with rather coa.r.s.e or stiff hairs.
_Hispid._ Beset with rigid or bristly hairs or with bristles.
_Hispidulous._ Minutely hispid.
_h.o.a.ry._ Grayish-white with a fine close p.u.b.escence.
_h.o.m.ogamous._ Bearing but one kind of flowers.
_Hooded._ Shaped like a hood or cowl.
_Hyaline._ Transparent or translucent.
_Hybrid._ A cross-breed of two species.
_Hypogynous._ Situated on the receptacle beneath the ovary and free from it and from the calyx; having the petals and stamens so situated.
_Imbricate._ Overlapping, either vertically or spirally, where the lower piece covers the base of the next higher, or laterally, as in the aestivation of a calyx or corolla, where at least one piece must be wholly external and one internal.
_Immersed._ Growing wholly under water; wholly covered by the involucral leaves, as sometimes the capsule in Hepaticae.
_Incised._ Cut sharply and irregularly, more or less deeply.
_Included._ Not at all protruded from the surrounding envelope.
_Incubous_ (leaf). Having the tip or upper margin overlapping the lower margin of the leaf above.
_Inc.u.mbent_ (cotyledons). Lying with the back of one against the radicle.
_Indefinite_ (stamens). Inconstant in number or very numerous.
_Indehiscent._ Not opening by valves, etc.; remaining persistently closed.
_Indigenous._ Native and original to the country.
_Indurated._ Hardened.
_Indusium._ The proper (often s.h.i.+eld-shaped) covering of the sorus or fruit-dot in Ferns.
_Inequilateral._ Unequal-sided.
_Inferior._ Lower or below; outer or anterior. _Inferior ovary_, one that is adnate to the calyx.
_Inflated._ Bladdery.
_Inflorescence._ The flowering part of a plant, and especially the mode of its arrangement.
_Infra-_. In composition, below; as _infra-axillary_, below the axil.
_Innovation._ An offshoot from the stem.
_Inserted._ Attached to or growing out of.
_Inter-_ or _intra-_. In composition, between.
_Interfoliaceous._ Between the leaves of a pair as the stipules of many Rubiaceae.
_Internode._ The portion of a stem between two nodes.
_Intramarginal._ Within and near the margin.
_Introrse._ Turned inward or toward the axis.
_Involucel._ A secondary involucre, as that of an umbellet in Umbelliferae.
_Involucellate._ Having an involucel.
_Involucral._ Belonging to an involucre.
_Involucrate._ Having an involucre.
_Involucre._ A circle or collection of bracts surrounding a flower cl.u.s.ter or head, or a single flower.
_Involute._ Rolled inward.
_Irregular_ (flower). Showing inequality in the size, form, or union of its similar parts.
_Julaceous._ Resembling a catkin in appearance.
_Keel._ A central dorsal ridge, like the keel of a boat; the two anterior united petals of a papilionaceous flower.
_Kidney-shaped._ Crescentic with the ends broad and rounded; reniform.
_l.a.b.i.ate._ Lipped; belonging to the l.a.b.i.atae.
_Lacerate._ Irregularly cleft as if torn.
