fidus 



flagelliform 



-fidus, Latin suffix for cleft, as tri- 

 fidus, 3-cleft. 



Fig-insect, the fertilizing agent in 

 caprification, JBlastophaga. 



Fi'la (pi. of filwm, a thread), adduct- 

 or'ia, the abortive " pistillidia " 

 of Mosses; ~ succulent'a, para- 

 physes. 



Fil'ament, Filament'um (filum, a 

 thread) ; (1) the stalk of an anther, 

 the thread-like stem; (2) any 

 thread-like body ; Filament'a os- 

 tiola'ria, delicate colourless threads 

 lining the perithecium round the 

 epithecium of Verrucaria ; fila- 

 ment'ous, filament'ose, jilam&nto'- 

 sus, formed of filaments or fibres ; 

 ~ Fung'us, growth form from a 

 hypha without union with the 

 hyphae ; ~ Mycelium ;= FIBROUS 

 MYCELIUM; ~ Spor'opliore, = 

 simple sporophore ; ~ Thal'lus = 

 FRUTICOSE THALLUS ; Filar-plasma 

 (7rXd<7/xa, moulded), Strasburger's 

 term for KINOPLASM ; flla'rious 

 (Grozier) = FILAMENTOUS ; fila'tus 

 (Lat.) VIRGATUS. 



Files, a series of Navicula-like frust- 

 ules as in Micromega. 



fil'icoid (Jilix, a fern, eI5os, like), fern- 

 like ; Filicol'ogy (\6yos, discourse), 

 = PTERIDOLOGY. 



fil'iform, filiform'i* (filum, a thread, 

 forma, shape), thread-shaped ; < 

 Appara'tus, the upper ends of the 

 synergidae, which pierce through 

 and are prolonged beyond the 

 summit of the embryo sac ; filipen- 

 d'ulous, -lus (pendulum, hanging 

 down), having tuberous swellings 

 in the middle or end of filiform 

 roots ; Filobacte'ria (+ BACTERIUM), 

 thread-like bacteria ; fi'lose, ending 

 in a thread-like process (Crozier). 



Fim'bria (Lit., fringe), (1) a fringe ; 

 (2) an elastic-toothed membrane 

 beneath the operculum of mosses ; 

 fim'briate, fimbria'tus, with the 

 margin bordered by long slender 

 processes ; fi.cn' bricate = FIMBRIATE 

 (Crozier) ; Fimbrilla, a diminutive 

 fringe ; fimbril'late, jtmbrilla'tus, 

 having fimbrillae ; finibriUj.f'erous, 



-rus, with many little fringes as 

 the receptacle of the Compositae. 



fimeta'rius (fimetum, a dunghill), 

 growing on or amongst dung. 



Finger-and-toe, a disease in Cruci- 

 fers caused by Plcmmodiophora 

 Brassicae, Woron.; Clubbing or 

 Anbury. 



fing'ered, digitate. 



Firstling- Cell, from the Germ. Erst- 

 lingzelle, the first of a new genera- 

 tion from an auxospore in Diatoms. 



fis'sile, fa'silis (Lat.), tending to 

 split, or easily split ; Fis'sion, 

 splitting ; ~ Fun'gi = Schizomy- 

 cetes ; Fissip'arism (pario, I bring 

 forth), the act of multiplication 

 among the lower forms by breaking 

 up into living portions ; fissip'arous, 

 dividing into two or more divisions 

 by splitting ; fis'sus (Lat., split), 

 split or divided half-way. 



Fis'tula (Lat.), a pipe; ~spira'lis = 

 TRACHEA ; fis'tular, fis'tulosej^s^t- 

 lo'sus, fis'tulous, hollow throughout 

 its length as the leaf and stem of 

 an onion. 



Fixa'tion of COa, respiration of oxy- 

 gen and retention of carbon diox- 

 ide. 



flabel'late, fidbella'tus (flabellum, a 

 fan), fan-shaped, dilated in a wedge- 

 shaped, S'linetimes plaited; flabel'li- 

 form, fldbelliform'is (forma, shape), 

 shaped as a fan ; flabelliner'ved 

 (nervus, a nerve), radiate-veined. 



flac'cid, flac'cidus (Lat.), withered 

 and litnp, flabby. 



Flacherie (Fr.), a disease in silk- 

 worm caused by Micrococcus Bom- 

 bycis, Cohn. 



flag'ellats, flacjdla'tm (flngdlnm, 

 a whip), provided with whip-like 

 runners ; flagella'ris, having creep- 

 ing sarmenta ; flag'ellary, caused 

 by flagella, as the motion of 

 zoospores( Crozier) ; Flagel'lum, pi. 

 Flagella (1) a runner or sar men- 

 turn, branchlets in Mosses ; (2) the 

 whip-like process of the protoplasm 

 of a swarmspore ; (3) similar organs 

 in the cells of some Schizomycetes ; 

 flagelliform, flagdlifonri is (forma, 



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