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Fertile. Containing perfect pistils and yielding fruit. 

 Filiform. Thread like, or very slender. 

 Fimbriate. Finely divided at the edge like fringe. 

 Fistulous. Hollow or tubular. The leaf of the Onion. 

 Flabelliform. Spreading like a fan; as the leaves of some 



Palms. 

 Flagelliform. Like a whip lash. 

 Fle.vuous Serpentine or zigzag. 

 Floral leaf. See Bracte. 

 Floret. A little flower. One in an aggregate or compound 



flower. 

 Floscular. A floret in a compound flower which is tubular, not 



ligulate. 

 Follicle. A seed vessel which opens lengthwise or on one side 



only ; as in Jlsclepias, or Milkweed. 

 Frond. The leaf of cryptogamous plants. 

 Fructification. The flower and fruit with their parts. 

 Frulescent. Becoming shrubby. 

 Fruticose. Shrubby. 



Fungi. The order of Cryptogamous plants to which the Mush- 

 rooms belong. 

 Fungous. Growing rapidly and preternaturally ; with a soft 



texture like the fungi. 

 Funnel shaped. Tubular at bottom and gradually expanding at 



top ; as the flowers of Datura Stramonium. 

 Furfuraceous. Resembling bran. 

 Fusiform. Spindle shaped. When a root is large at top and 



tapers downward, as in the carrot and radish. 



G 



Gemmaceous. Belonging to a bud. Made of the scales of a 



bud. 

 Generic. Belonging to a genus. 

 Geniculate. Bent like a knee. 



Genus. A family of plants agreeing in their flower and fruit. 

 Germ The lower part of the pistil, which afterwards becomes 



the fruit. 

 Germination. The sprouting of a seed. 

 Gibbous. Swelled out, commonly on one side. 

 Glabrous. Smooth, as it regards hairiness or pubescence. 

 Gland. A small roundish appendage, apparently performing 



some function of secretion or excretion; as on the petiole 



of the blue Passion-flower. 

 Glandular pubescence. Hairs tipped with little heads or glands. 

 Glaucous. Sea green. Pale blueish green. 

 Glume. The scales, valves, or chaff, which make the calyx and 



corolla of grasses. 

 Glutinous. Adhesive, viscid, covered with an adhesive fluid. 

 Gramina. Grasses and grass like plants. 



