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(sometimes without escaping from the sporangium) to a rudimentary 



<? prothallus and antheridia. From the latter the spermatozoids escape 



and swim to the ? organ. 



Filices, ferns proper, homosporous leptosporangiate Filicales. 

 Filicineae= Filicales. 

 Filicinean, relating to ferns. 



Filicium Thw. Sapindaceae (11). 3 trop. As. and Afr. 

 Filiform, thread-like. 

 Filipendula Tourn. ex L. (Spiraea p.p. BH. ; Ulmaria p.p., q.v.}. 



Rosaceae (in. 8). 10 N. temp. 



Fillaeopsis Harms. Leguminosae (i. 5). i trop. Afr. 

 Filmy ferns, Hynienophyllaceae. 

 Fimbriate, fringed. 



Fimbristemma Turcz. Asclepiadaceae (n. 4). i trop. S. Am. 

 Fimbristylis Vahl. Cyperaceae (i). 225 chiefly trop. 

 Findlaya Bowdich. Inc. sed. i Madeira. 

 Findlaya Hook. f. Ericaceae (in. 2). i Trinidad. 

 Finger-grass (Am.), Panicum. 



Fingerhuthia Nees ex Lehm. Gramineae (10). i S. Afr., Afghanistan. 

 Fingrigo (W. I.), Pisonia aculeata L. 

 Finlaysonia Wall. Asclepiadaceae (i). i Further India. 

 FinscMa Warb. Proteaceae (il). i New Guinea. 

 Fintelmannia Kunth. Cyperaceae (11). 4 Brazil, Madagascar. 

 Fiorin-grass, Agrostis alba L. 

 Fir, Abies ; Douglas-, Psatdotsuga Douglasii Carr. ; Scotch-, Finns 



sylvestris L. ; silver-, Picea alba Link; spruce-, Picea excelsa Link; 



umbrella-. Sciadopitys verticillata Sieb. et Zucc. 

 Fire-bush, CrataegUs pyrdcantha Medic.; -pink (Am.), Silene. 

 Firmiana Marsigli (Sterculia p.p. BH.). Sterculiaceae. 10 As. 

 Fischera Spreng. = Platysace Bunge (j9//.)=Trachymene Rudge. 

 Fischeria DC. Asclepiadaceae (n. i). 12 trop. Am., W.I. 

 Fissicalyx Benth. Leguminosae (in. 8). i Venezuela. 

 Fissiparous, splitting. 



Fissipes Small (Cypripedium p.p ). Orchidaceae (i. 2). i N. Am. 

 Fistular, herbaceous and hollow, Umbelltferae. 

 Fistularia L. (Rhinanthus p.p.). Scroph. (in. 3). 9 N. temp. 

 Fitchia Hook. f. Compositae (13). 2 Polynesia. 

 Fittonia E. Coen. Acanthaceae (iv. B). 2 Peru, cult. orn. fol. 

 Fitzgeraldia F. Muell. (Cananga p.p.). Anonaceae (i). i Austr. 

 Fitzroya Hook. f. Coniferae (Pinaceae ; see C. for gen. char.). 2 Chili, 



Tasm. 



Five-finger (Am.), Potentilla; (W.I.) Syngonium. 

 Fixed light position, that taken up by 1. with regard to light. 

 Fixed oils, cf. Oils. 



Flabellaria Cav. Malpighiaceae (i). i W. Afr. 

 Flabellate, flabelliform, fan-shaped. 

 Flacourtia (Comm.) L'Herit. Flacourtiaceae. 15 trop. As., Afr. 



F. Ramontchi L'Herit. (Madagascar plum), &c. have ed. drupes. 

 Flacourtiaceae (EP.; Bixinieae p.p, Saniydaceae BH.). Dicots. 

 (Archichl. Parietales). 70 gen., 500 sp. trop. and subtrop. trees and 



shrubs, mostly with alt. stip. leathery 1., often two-ranked. Fls. 



