Flagon-shaped 



Flos 



shape), (1) resembling a runner, or 

 (2) lash-like, as the cilia of zoo- 

 spores. 



Flag'on-shaped (London), used for 

 flask-shaped. 



Flake, a nectariferous gland ; fla'ky, 

 lamelliform. 



flame - coloured, flam! mem (Lat.), 

 fiery red. 



Flank- curv'ature, unequal growth of 

 climbers, Germ. " Flanken-Kriim- 

 mung " ; Flanks, the lateral sur- 

 faces of a bilateral body. 



Flask, the utricle of Garex ; flask- 

 shaped, having the form of a 

 Florence flask, somewhat globular, 

 with a drawn out neck. 



Flats, proposed equivalent for the 

 German " Etagenbildung." 



Flat'tening (1) the fasciation of a 

 stem ; (2) the production of a 

 cladodium. 



Flave'do (Lat.), yellowness, a disease 

 in which the green parts have be- 

 come yellow. 



flaves'cent, flaves'cens (Lat.), yellow- 

 ish, becoming yellow ; fla'vicans, 

 fla'vidus (Lat.), somewhat yellow ; 

 fla'vo-vi'rens (Lat.), yellowish 

 green; fla'vous, fla'vus, nearly pure 

 yellow, a bright clear hue. 



Flee'ciness, villosity. 



Flesh, the soft parts, as the flesh of 

 apples or pears ; flesh'y, succu- 

 lent. 



flexed (flex-its, bent), used of Diatoms 

 which appear as though bent ; 

 flexible, flex'ilis, flexib'ilis, capable 

 of being bent, but elastic enough 

 to be able to resume its original 

 figure ; flex'uose, flexuo'sus, flex'- 

 uous, bent alternately in opposite 

 directions, zigzag ; Flex'ure, the 

 " bend " of Diatoms. 



floating, borne on the surface of 

 water. 



Floc'ci, pi. of Floc'cus (Lat., a lock of 

 wool), locks of soft hair or wool ; 

 floc'cose, flocco'sus, bearing flocci, 

 ~ My ce'lium, = FIBROUS MYCELIUM; 

 Q.oc'cnient,floccnleiU'ux, diminutive 

 of FLOCCOSE. 



Flo'ra (Lat., goddess of flowers), (1) 



the aggregate plants of a country 

 or district, (2) a work which con- 

 tains an enumeration of them ; 

 Flo'rae horolo'gium, a floral clock, 

 certain plants arranged in the 

 order of the hours of opening or 

 closing ; flo'ral, flora'lis, belong to 

 flowers ; ~ Di'agram, a drawing to 

 show the relative position and 

 number of the constituent parts ; 

 ~ En'velopes, the perianth leaves, 

 calyx and corolla ; ~ Glume, the 

 lower glume of the flower in 

 grasses ; flowering glume (Beal) ; 

 ~ Leaf = BRACT ; Flores'cence, 

 Florescen'tia, anthesis, the period 

 of flowering ; Flo'ret, a small flower, 

 one of a cluster, as in Compositae ; 

 floribun'dus (abundus, = produc- 

 tion of present activity), abound- 

 ing in flowers ; Floricul'ture (citl- 

 tura, cultivation), cultivation of 

 flowers, flower gardening ; Flor'ie, 

 Grew's word for perianth. 



flo'rifer (Lat.), florif'erous, flower- 

 bearing ; florif erae Gem'mae, flower 

 buds ; Florifica'tion, the act or 

 time of flowering. 



flor'iform (flos, floris, a flower ; 

 forma, shape), shaped like a 

 flower ; Flo'rilege (lego, I gather), 

 a treatise on flowers ; florip'arous 

 -us (pario, I bring forth), (1) pro- 

 ducing flowers, (2) a monstrosity 

 producing other flowers instead 

 of fruit; Flo'rist, (1) a cultivator 

 of flowers, especially those vari- 

 able forms known as florist's 

 flowers, (2) a writer of a Flora, 

 (3) in foreign usage "Florist" 

 means a local botanist ; Flo'rula, 

 (1) a small flora, (2) the botanic 

 account of a small district ; flo'ru- 

 lent, flowery; flo'rus, in composition 

 means flowered, as uni-florus, one- 

 flowered ; Flos (Lat.), an assem- 

 blage of the organs essential for 

 fertilization, as stamens and pistils, 

 with some protecting envelope ;~ 

 A'quae, floating Algae, as Rirularia 

 fluitans, Cohn ; ~ compos'itus + = 

 CAPITULUM ; ~ ple'nus, a double 

 flower, where the stamens or pis- 



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