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Fastigiately-branched, branched in such a manner, 
the branches becoming gradually shorter from 
the base to the apex. 
Fastigiately-corymbose, a corymb, whose branches 
gradually become shorter towards the top, like a 
pyramid. 
Fauces, the jaws, the gaping part of monopetalous 
flowers. 
Favose, pitted or excavated, like the cells of a 
honeycomb. 
Favosely-scrobiculate, excavated 
hollows. 
Feathery, resembling a feather. 
Feather-nerved, the nerves disposed like the feathers 
of a pen. 
Feb \ efficacious in moderating fevers. 
Feeulent, muddy, thick with sediment. 
Fecundation, the act of making fruitful. 
Ferruginous, 
in little pits or 
Ferrugincous, f iron-coloured, rusty. 
CFP eg neous, 
Fibriliose, covered with little strings or fibres. 
Fibrous, being composed of fibres. 
Filamentose, thready. 
Filiform, like a thread in form. 
Fimbriate, fringed. 
Finger-parted, divided into lobes, having a fan- 
ciful resemblance to the five fingers of a human 
hand 
Firm, hardish, firm, not soft. 
Fistular, 
Fistulous, 
Fistulose, 
Flaccid, feeble, weak. 
Flagelle, runners without leaves. 
Flagellæform, form of runners, creeping along the 
ground. 
Flat, plane. 
Flexile, capable of being bent in different directions, 
pliable. 
FI 
lexruous, having a bent or undulating direction, 
zigzag. 
hollow, like a pipe. 
Fiocky, g ©O¥eted with little tufts like wool. 
Ploecosely-tomentose, down disposed in little tufts. 
Flocullosely-scabrous, covered with rough hairs in 
tufts. 
Floral, of or belonging to a flower, near the flower. 
Ploral-envelopes, the calyx, bracteas, and corolla, 
which envelope the inner parts of the flower are 
all so called. 
Florets, little flowers, chiefly applied to composite 
and grasses. 
Floriferous, that which bears flowers, 
Flosendli 
ous, compound flowers, consisting of many 
tubular monopetalous florets. 
Foliaceous, having the form of leaves. 
Foliate, when a leaf is divided into leaflets it is 
called 1-2-3-10 or 12-foliate, according to the 
number of leaflets, 
Follicle, a particular kind of two-valved seed-vessel, 
such as those of Hakea and Peonia. 
Follicular, resembling a follicle. 
Footstalks, the stalks of leaves, 
Fornicate, arched. 
LY sed afer 
a late. l pitted, full of little pits. 
Foreole, little pits or hollows. 
F tree from each other, not connected together, 
usually applied to Stamens; the ovary or fruit is 
said tobe free when it neither adheres to the co- 
rolla nor calyx. 
Fring ; 
Fringe 
ree, 
d, having a border like a fringe. 
toothed, having a border toothed so 
appear fringed. 
Frond, the leaves of palms and ferns. 
Front, in Aconitum, the front of the he 
sepal. 
Frosted, covered with glittering particles. 
Fructiferous, that which bears fruit. 
Fructification, all those parts composing the fruit of 
plants. 
as to 
Imet or upper 
GLOSSARY. 
Prancent X shrubby. 
Fruticose, 
Fruticulose, a little shrub. . 
Fugacious, that which lasts but for a short time. 
Fulcra, scales and stipulas, &c. 
Fulvous, tawny-yellow, or fox-coloured. i 
Fungous, having the consistence of fungi or mush- 
rooms. . 
Funicle, a little stalk, by which the seed is attached 
to the placenta. 
Furcate, forked. 
Furcately-divided, divided in a furcate manner. 
Furfuraceous, scaly, mealy, scurfy. 
Furrowed, having longitudinal channels or furrows. 
Fuscous, blackish-brown. 
Fusiform, spindle-shaped, like the root of a carrot. 
G. 
Galeate, helmeted ; the upper lip of a ringent co- 
rolla is the galea of that corolla. 
Gamosepalous, when the sepals are joined together 
at the base, they are so called, improperly mono- 
sepalous, 
Gelatine, jelly, a term in chemistry. 
Gelatinous, consisting of jelly, 
Geminate, twin. 
Gemme, leaf buds, as distinguished from alabastra 
or flower-buds. 
Gemmiferous, bearing buds. 
Genitals, styles and stamina. 
Germ or Germen, the old name of the ovary. 
Germen-inferior, fruit below the flower. 
Germen-superior, fruit above the flower. 
Germination, the first act of vegetation in a seed. 
Gibbo, in Aconitum, the swelling of the tube of the 
petals or nectaries. 
Gibbous, protuberant, swelled. 
Gibbosity, a protuberance or swelling. 
Girded, surrounding any thing. 
Glabrous, smooth, destitute of hairs. 
Gladiate, shaped like a short straight sword. 
Glandular, having glands. 
Glandularly-crenated, having crenatures or serra- 
Glandularly-serrated, tures tipped with glands. 
Glandularly-muricated, covered with tubercles tipped 
with glands, 
Glandularly-pilose, covered with glandular hairs. 
Glandularly-toothed, margins toothed, with the teeth 
bearing glands, 
Glanduliforons, bearing glands. 
Glaucescent, having something of a bluish-green, 
hoary, or sea-green appearance, 
Glaucous, having a decided hoary-grey surface. 
Orase round or spherical. 
Globosely-elliptical, between spherical and oval. 
Globosely-ovate, between spherical and egg-shaped. 
Globulose, a diminutive of globose. 
Glochidate, having hairs, the ends of which are split 
and hooked back. 
Glomeniey \ gathered into round heaps or heads. 
Glumaceous, plants are said to be 
their flowers are like those of 
Glume, a part of the floral e 
Gluten, glue. 
Glutinous, 
Glutinose, 
glumaceous when 
grasses, 
nvelopes of a grass. 
l adhesive, gluey. 
Gomopetalons, improperly monopetalous. 
Graniform, formed like grains of corn. 
Granular, 
cove so . 
Granulated, $ overed as if with grains, 
Granuliferous, bearing grains. 
Greenish-glaucous, of a colour between grey and 
green. 
Gregarious, herding together. 
Grooved, furrowed, channelled, marked with grooves, 
Grumose, clubbed, knotted, contracted at intervals 
into knots. . 
Gynandrous, having the stamens and style com- 
bined in one body. 
Gynobase,a fleshy receptacle, bearing separate fruits. 
Gynobasic, having a gynobase. ; 
Gynophore, a lengthened receptacle, bearing the 
petals, stamens, and pistil, but not the calyx. 
Gynous, flowers are said to be 3-4-5-6-7, &ce. 
gynous, when they contain so many styles. 
Gyrose, turned round like a crook. 
H. 
Habit, features or general appearance of a plant, 
Habitat, habitation, native country. 
Hemorrhages, copious bleeding. , 
Hemorrhoids, a kind of disease called the piles. 
Hairy, covered with long hairs. ; 
Hairy-canescent, covered with grey hairs. ; 
Hairy-pubescent, covered with short soft hairs. 
Hairy-tomentose, covered with dense, white, close, 
curled hairs. 
Hastate, formed like the head of a halbert. 
Hastately-cordate, between halbert - shaped and 
heart-shaped. l 
Hastately-kidney-shaped, a form between halbert- 
shaped and kidney-shaped. 
Hastately-lanceolate, between halbert -shaped and 
lance-shaped. . 
Hastately-4-5-lobed, lobed in such a manner as still 
to appear somewhat halbert-shaped. 
Hastately-2-eared, a leaf having two ears at the 
base, giving it the appearance of a halbert. 
Haulm, dead stems of herbs. 
Helmet, the same as Galea. 
upper sepal in Aconitum. 
Hemispherico-conical, a shape between a globe and 
a cone. ; 
Herbaceous, a plant the stem of which perishes an- 
nually. ; . 
Hermaphrodite, a flower is so called when it consists 
both of male and female organs. 
Hexagonal, six-sided. 
Hewxandrous, having six stamens. 
Hibernaculum, any thing which serves as a protec- 
tion to the young buds during winter. o. 
Hilum, { the scar or mark on the seed which in- 
Hulun, dicates the place by which it adheres to 
ylum, 
the placenta. . 
Hirsutely-tomentose, covered with dense, close, white 
hairs. 
Hispid, covered with stiff hairs. 
Hispidly-ciliated, fringed with stiff hairs. 
Hispidiy-villous, covered with stiff villi. 
Hoary, covered with grey or white down. oy 
Hoary-pubescent, covered with white down, which is 
pressed to the surface. 
See Galeate. The 
Hoary-tomentose, covered with white tomentum ; , 
which see. 
Hoary-velvety, covered with white velvety down. 
Hoary-villous, covered with white villi. 
Holosericeous, covered all over with silky down. 
Hollow-leaf, form of a cowl, concave above. , 
Homogeneous, having a uniform nature, or principle, 
or composition. 
Honey-combed, having pits like a honeycomb. 
Honey-pore, the pore in flowers which secretes 
honey. 
Honey-scales, the scales in flowers which secrete 
honey. 
Hooded, being hollowed into the form of a hood. 
Horn, any awl-shaped stiff process is called a horn. 
Horny, hard, the consistence of a horn. 
Hyaline, crystalline, transparent. 
Hybrid, a mule, partaking of the nature of two 
species, 
Hydragogue, that which removes dropsy. 
Hygrometrical, indicating the approach of moisture. 
Hypocrateriform, salver-shaped. 
Hypogynous, situated below the ovarium. 
Hypophyllous, situated under the leaf. 
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