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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.