Fascicle 



Fenestrae 



Fas'cicle, Fascic'ulus (Lat., a little 

 bundle), a close cluster or bundle 

 of flowers, leaves, stems, or roots ; 

 fascic'ular, fascicula'ris, fas'cicled, 

 fascicula'tus, connected or drawn 

 into a fascicle; fascic'ular Cambium, 

 is that portion which belongs to 

 the vascular bundles ; '- Tis'sue, 

 or '^ Syst'em, the fibro-vascular sys- 

 tem ; ~ Xy'iem, the hadrome, the 

 wood-elements of a bundle ; fascio- 

 la'ris, fasciola'tus, fasciated. 



Fasergriibchen (Ger.) = Crypto- 



STOMATA. 



fastig'iate, fastigia'tus {fastigium, a 

 slope, a gable), (1) parallel, clustered 

 and erect, as the branches of Fopu- 

 lus fastigiata, Linn. ; (2) frequently 

 used as if it meant the same as fa.-ci- 

 ate ; Fastigia'tion, when branches 

 become more or less parallel with 

 the main stem. 



Fat Bpd'ies, pi., fatty oils occurring 

 in j)lants, often as reserve-material, 

 particularly in seeds ; Fat En'zyme, 

 an unorganized ferment which breaks 

 up oils and fats. 



Fath'er-plant, in hybrids, the pollen- 

 parent or male element. 



Fatigue'-sub 'stances, Recnitzer's name 

 for bodies thrown off the plant, 

 which act in a restraining or poison 

 ous way on its own life ; Ger. , 

 Ermiidungstoffe. 



fatis'cent {Jalisco^ I gape), cracked, 

 or gaping open. 



Fau'ces (Lat., the throat), pi., the 

 throat of a gamopetalous corolla ; 

 Faux, singular, is an assumed word. 



Favei'la (? a diminutive of favas, 

 honey-comb), the conceptacle of 

 Ceramium, a dense terminal agyle- 

 meration of spores within a thin 

 colourless membrane ; Favellid'ium 

 {flStov, diminutive) = Cystocarp ; 

 fave'olate, faveola'lus (perhaps from 

 favus, honey-comb), honey-combed, 

 alveolate ; Favil'la, Favillid'ium, 

 Lindley's erroneous spelling of 

 Favella, ard Favellidifm ; 

 fa'vose, faro'siis (Lat.), honey- 

 combed, as the receptacles of many 

 Corapositae ; favo'so-areola'tus. 



mapped-out into spaces, suggestive 

 of the cavities of honey-comb ; '- 

 dehis'cens, seeming honey-combed 

 after dehiscence, as the anther of 

 Viscuvi ; favo'sulns, somewhat 

 honey-combed ; Fa'vus, a skin dis- 

 ease caused by Achorion Schoenleinii, 

 Remak. 



favular'ian, a ribbed surface separated 

 by zigzag furrows in certain genera 

 of fossil Lycopods, derived from tha 

 obsolete genus Favularia. 



feath'er- veined, with secondary veins 

 proceeding from the midrib, penui- 

 nerved. 



feath'ery, plumose, with long hairs 

 which are hairy themselves. 



Fe'cula {faecula, wine-lees), starch or 

 similar substances ; fe'oulent, thick 

 with sediment (Crozier). 



Fecundation {fecundo, to make fruit- 

 ful) = Fertilization. 



Federa'tion, the whole of the plant- 

 associations of the world. 



Feed'er, (1) a hcst-plant ; (2) in TFel- 

 wiischia and other Gnetaceae, an 

 outgrowth of the hypocotyl, serving 

 as a temporary organ of absorption ; 

 (3) used by S. H. Vines for the 

 "foot" of Selaginella. 



fell'eus (Lat, full of gall), bitter as gall. 



Fell-flelds, districts of dv^arf, scattered 

 plants, chiefly Cryptogams ; arc'tic 

 r^ , occur round the north pole. 



felt'ed matted with intertwined hairs ; 

 '-' Tis'sue, hyphal tissue not regu- 

 larly united, but more or less grown 

 together ; syn. Tela contexta. 



fe'male the fruiting element in plants, 

 the pistil and its analogues, arche- 

 gonia, oospheres, etc. , shown by 9 . 



femin'eus (Lat., womanly), female, as 

 Flos '~, a flower which contains 

 pistils but no stamens. 



Fen, a moist, level tract, peaty and 

 rich in humus. 



Fence, Withering's word for Invo- 

 lucre. 



Fenes'tra (I^at., a window), an open- 

 ing through a membrane ; Fenes'trae 

 (Lat., windows) apica'les, and '■^ 

 basa'les, openings in the outer coat 

 of certain Silicoflayellatae (Lemmer- 



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