floscular 



foliicolous 



tils, or both, are converted into 

 petals ; flos'cular, fios'culous, flos- 

 culo'sus (1) relating to florets or 

 flowers, or presenting many 

 florets ; (2) with tubular florets. 

 Flos'cule, Flos'culum (Blair), Flos- 

 culus, a little flower, a floret ; 

 Sem'i - flos'cule a composite floret ; 

 Floss, the down in certain Com- 

 positae, as Thistle-down ; Flossifi- 

 ca'tion, flowering, expansion of 

 flowers. 



Flou'risli, Blair's word for a disk- 

 floret of Compositae ; half ~ the 

 same for ligulate florets. 

 Flow'er, defined under FLOS ; ~ Bud, 

 an unexpanded flower, as distinct 

 from a leaf-bud ; ~ Head, a cluster 

 of flowers, as the Capitulum or 

 Head in Compositae ; Flow'erage, 

 the state of being in flower ; 

 Flow'eret, a small flower, a floret ; 

 Flow'eriness, abounding with 

 flowers ; Flow'ering 1 , the maturity 

 of the floral organs, and expan- 

 sion of their envelopes ; ~ Glume, 

 the lower of the two organs which 

 subtend the flower of Grasses (the 

 upper being the palea^ ; ~ Plants = 

 PHANEROGAMS ; flow'erless, desti- 

 tute of flowers ;~ Plants = CRYPTO- 

 GAMS ; FloVerlessness, absence of 

 flowers ; flow'ery, abounding in 

 flowers. 



Flowers of Tan = Aethalium septicum, 

 Fr. ; ~ of Wine, growth of Sac- 

 charomyces Mycoderma, Reess. 

 flu'itant, fluitam (Lat.), floating, 

 flumina'lis, flumin'eus (flumen, a 

 river), applied to plants which 

 grow in running water. 

 Fluores'cence (from Fluor-spar), the 

 property of diminishing the re- 

 frangibility of light ; - of Chlor'o- 

 phyll, the shifting of the spectrum 

 by the colouring matter contained 

 in chlorophyll. 



flu' vial, fluvia'lix, fluviat'ic (Crozier), 

 &'0.'vi3Ai\.e,Jluviat'ilis (Lat. ), applied 

 to plants growing in streams. 

 Fly-wood, oakwood destroyed by 

 Stereum (Tubeuf) ; Fly-traps, con- 

 trivances by which insects are 



caught, as pitchers, tentacles of 

 Drosera, etc. 



foemin'eus = FEMINEUS, female. 



foe'tidus (Lat., stinking), fetid, smel- 

 ling strongly and disagreeably ; 

 Foe'tor (Lat., a stench), the odour 

 given off by flowers which thereby 

 attract carrion flies. 



fo'lded, in vernation when the two 

 halves of a leaf are applied to one 

 another ; ~ Tis'sue, endoderm with 

 suberified or liquified membrane, 

 confined to a band on the lateral 

 and transverse faces of the cells, 

 without thickening (Van Tieghem). 



folia'ceous, -ens (folium, a leaf, + 

 aceous), having the texture or 

 shape of a leaf, as the branches of 

 XylophyUa ; ~ Thal'lus, a f rondose 

 thallus, flat and leaf-like, usually 

 crisped and lobed, which spreads 

 over the surface on which it grows, 

 and can be detached without much 

 injury ; Folia'ceae, frondose vascu- 

 lar Cryptogams ; Foliage, the leafy 

 covering, especially of trees ; ~ 

 Leaves, ordinary leaves, as distin- 

 guished from those which have 

 undergone metamorphoses as 

 bracts, petals, etc. ; fo'liar,/ofo'a'n's, 

 (1) leafy or leaf -like; (2) inserted 

 on, or forming an appendix to a 

 leaf, epiphyllous ; cir'rhus folia'ris 

 = tendril ; Gap, a mesh in the 

 vascular bundle cylinder from the 

 margin of which vascular bundles 

 pass into the frond in Ferns ; 

 Spur, a dwarf shoot in a pine-tree, 

 which bears a pair of leaves (Har- 

 tig) ; ~ Trace, = LEAF-TRACE ; the 

 remains of the vascular bundle or 

 bundles which supplied the leaf. 



foliate, folia' tus (Lat., leaved), clothed 

 with leaves, as bi-foliate, two- 

 leaved, etc. 



Folia' tion, Folia' tio (Lat.), vernation ; 

 used by Grew for the act of leafing. 



Fo'liature (foliatura, foliage), Blair's 

 term for petals. 



folif'erous, foliif'erous, -rus (folium, 

 a leaf, fero, I bear), leaf-bearing ; 

 foliif'erae Gem'mae = leaf - buds ; 

 foliic'olous (colo, I inhabit), grow- 



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