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Fan' no.-, (from far^ corn.) Meal or flour. A term gi-ven to the glu- 

 tinous part of wheat arid other seeds, which is obtained by grinding 

 and sifting. 



It consists of gluten, starch, and mucilage The pollen is also 

 called farina. 



Fas'cide. A bundle. 



Fasciculate. Collected in bundles. 



Fastig'iate. Flat topped. 



Faro'sus. Resembling a honey comb. 



Faux. Jaws. The throat of the corolla. 



Ferns. Cryptognmous plants, with the fruit on the backs of the xeavr/s 

 or in spikes made up of minute capsules opening transversely. 



Fer'tile. Pistillate, yielding fruit. 



Fil'ament. The slender, thread-like part of the stamen. 



Fil'iccs, (from filum, a thread,) Ferns. 



Fil'iform. Very slender. 



Fim'briatc. Divided at the edge like fringe. 



Fis'tuloits. Hollow or tubular, as the leaf of the onion. 



Flac'cid. Too limber to support its own weight. 



Flagcl'liform. Like a whip lash. 



Flum'mciiz. Flame coloured. 



Fla'rits. Yellow. 



Flcx'uous. Serpentine, or bending in a zig-zag form. 



Flo'ra. Considered by the heathens as the goddess of flowers. BOOKS 

 describing flowers are often called Floras. 



Fio'ral leaf. See Bract. 



Flo'rct. Little flower, part of a compound flower. 



Flos'cular. A tubular floret. 



Flon-'cr. (Flos.) A term which was formerly applied almost exclu- 

 sively to the petals. At present a stamen and pistil only are con- 

 sidered as forming a perfect flower. 



Flow'cr stalk. See Peduncle. 



Folia'ccous. Leafy. 



Fol'lidcs. Leafets; a diminutive of folium, a leaf. The smaller 

 leaves which constitute a compound leaf. 



Fo'lium leaf. Leaves are fibrous and cellular processes of plants ; they 

 are of different figures, but generally extended into a membranous 

 or skinny substance. 



Fol'lidc. A seed vessel which opens lengthwise, or on one side only. 



Fool'-stallc. Sometimes used instead of Peduncle and Petiole. 



Frag'ilis. Breaking easily, and not bending. 



Frond. The leaf of Cryptogamous plants ; formerly applied to palms. 



Fronde s'ccncc, (from frons, a leaf.) The time in which each species 

 of plants unfolds its leaves. See Frondose. 



Frondv's-c. (Frondosus.) Leafy, or leaf-like. 



Frud\fica'tion. The flower and fruit with their parts. 



Frudif'crovs. Bearing or becoming fruit. 



Fruc'ius. The fruit. This is an annual part of the plant which ad- 

 heres to the flower and succeeds it ; after attaining maturity it detaches 

 itself from the parent plant, and on being placed in the bosbm of the 

 earth, gives birth to a new vegetable. In common language, the fruit 

 includes both the pericarp and the seed, but strictly speaking, the 



