Crossword-Solution: GLANDULA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

CASSIA (canaliculata), cinerascens pube tenuissima, foliis 2-jugis (raro 1-jugis) foliolis angustato-linearibus canaliculatis: glandula inter par inferius et dum unijuga inter terminale, calycibus glabriusculis, racemis corymbosis paucifloris folio brevioribus.

Phyllodia semper aphylla, aversa, linearia, acuta, basi attenuata, plus minusve falcato-incurva, biuncialia, 1/16 circiter unciae lata, exstipulata, paginis pube arctissime adpressa canescentibus, margine superiore glandula unica depressa obsoleta.

Now, Roger makes no mention whatever of "testudo," while Roland says: "_Nota quod quamvis Rogerius non designat inter glandulum et testudinem, scias igitur quod testudo fit ex majori parte flegmatica, minori melancholie, glandula vero a contrario_," a statement which might readily suggest the suspicion that Gilbert had before his eyes the text of Roland, or that, at least, he had not acquired his knowledge of testudo from Roger, his usual surgical authority.

The surface of the canal exhibits a variable number of follicles or vesicles called the _glandula nabothi_, which secrete a thick mucus; this blocks the canal after impregnation.

Upon which Discourse, the rest of my Thoughts were very angry, and pull'd them out of their Pulpit, the _Glandula_; and not only so, but put them out of their Society, believing they were a Factious Party, which, in time, might cause the Society's Dissolution.