216 GLOSSARY. 



Fltxuose, or Fle'xuous: bending gently in opposite directions, in a zigzag way. 



Floatitig: swimming on the surface of water. 



Fldccose : composed, or bearing tufts, of woolly or long and soft hairs. 



Flora (the goddess of flowers): the plants of a country or district, taken 



together, or a work systematically describing them ; p. 3. 

 Floral: relating to the blossom. 



Floral Envelopes : the leaves of the flower ; p. 85, 99 

 Floret : a diminutive flower ; one of the flowers of a head (or of the so-called 



compound flower) of Compositse, p. 106. 



Flower: the whole organs of reproduction of Phaenogamous plants; p. 84. 

 Flower-bud: an unopened flower. 



Flowering Plants, p. 177. Flowerless Plants, p. 172, 177. 

 Folidceous: belonging to, or of the texture or nature of, a leaf (folium). 

 Fdliose : leafy ; abounding in leaves. 

 Fdliolate: relating to or bearing leaflets (foliola). 



Fdllide: a simple pod, opening down the inner suture ; p. 131, fig. 302. 

 Follicular : resembling or belonging to a follicle. 

 Food of Plants, p. 160. 



Foramen: a hole or orifice, as that of the ovule ; p. 122. 

 Fornix: little arched scales in the throat of some corollas, as of Comfrey. 

 Fornicate: over-arched, or arching over. 

 Fo'ceate: deeply pitted. Foveolate: diminutive of foveate. 

 Free: not united with any other parts of a different sort ; p. 103. 

 Fringed: the margin beset with slender appendages, bristles, &c. 

 Frond : what answers to leaves in Ferns ; the stem and leaves fused into on* 



body, as in Duckweed and many Liverworts, &c. 

 Frondescence : the bursting into leaf. 



Frdndose : frond-bearing ; like a frond : or sometimes used for leafy. 

 Fruct ification : the state of fruiting. Organs of, p. 76. 

 Fruit: the matured ovary and all it contains or is connected with ; p. 126 

 Frute'scent: somewhat shrubby; becoming a shrub (frulex). 

 Fruticulose: like a small shrub. Fruticose: shrubby; p. 36. 

 Fugacious : soon falling off or perishing. 

 Fulvous : tawny ; dull yellow with gray. 

 Funiculus: the stalk of a seed or ovule; p. 122. 

 Funnel-form, or Funnel-shaped: expanding gradually upwards, like a funnel 



or tunnel ; p. 102. 

 Furcate : forked. 



Furfurdceous : covered with bran-like fine scurf. 

 Furrowed: marked by longitudinal channels or grooves. 

 Fuscous: deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform : spindle-shaped ; p. 32. 



Gdleate: shaped like a helmet (qalea] ; as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 



fig. 185, and the upper lip of the corolla of Dead-Nettie, fig. 209. 

 Gamope'talons: of united petals ; same as monopetalous, and a better word; p. 102. 

 Gamophyllons : formed of united leaves. Gainose'palous : formed of united sepals. 

 Gelatine, p. 165. 



