festncine 



Filial'cell 



dry culm of Festuca ; fes'tucous, 

 formed of straw. 



fe'tidUS = FOETIDUS. 



Fibonac'ci Se'ries, Braun's series of 

 numbers formed thus, 1 2, 3, 5, 8, 

 13, 21, 31, £5 . . by successive 

 additions of the last two ; they 

 occur in phyllotaxis, and were for- 

 mulated by Leonardo of Pisa, sur- 

 named Fibonacci. 

 Fi'bre, Fl'hra ( at.), (1) a fine thread 

 or filament, chambered or woody ; 

 (2) the fusiform cells of the inner 

 bark ; (3) the u'timate rootlets ; 

 element'ary ■^^ the thread in a spiral 

 vessel, secondary deposit in a spiral ; 

 fl'briform {forma, sliape), fibre- 

 shaped ; Fi'bril, Fihrill'a, diminu- 

 tive of Fibre ; ~ of Nu'cleus = 

 Chkomosome ; fi'brillate, fibril- 

 latus, fl'brillose, fi'brillous, fihrillo'- 

 sus, furnished with fibres, as roots, 

 or having a finely lined a])pearance ; 

 -^ Lay'er, two outer layers of closely 

 woven hyphae in (xeaster ; -^ Myce'- 

 lium= KiBROus Mycelium ; Fi'brin 

 (veg'etable), occurs in gluten, has 

 no fibrous structure as animal fibrin, 

 but forms hen dry a tough, horny 

 mass ; fl'bro-cel'lular. " composed of 

 spiral cells " ; fibro-va'sal (Hillhouse) 

 = ~- -vasou'lar, tissue of mixed 

 vessels arid' fibres ; ~ -^ Bun'dle, 

 or Vascular Bundle, an association 

 of vessels characteristic of the 

 hiyher plants, usually onsisting of 

 phloem and xylem elements, often 

 surrounded by a special layer of 

 cells known as the bundle--h<-ath ; 

 -^ Cord, proposed by Strasburger 

 for the similar structure in mono- 

 cotyledons ; ~ Cyl'mder, the central 

 C3'linder ; ~ Sys'tem, the whole of 

 the fibrous p'rfion of a plant, ex- 

 clusive of the pure y cellular struc- 

 tures ; Fibrole'in, Kayod's term for 

 a very delicate membrane of the 

 spirals of protoplasm (hyaloplasm) ; 

 fi'brouB, fi'brose, fib>o'sn^, having 

 much woody fibre, as the r-nd of 

 a Coco-nut ; Fi'brous-myce'liam, 

 when the hyphae form long branch- 

 ing strands ; Fi'brose, Fr^ray's term 



for the substance of woody fibre, a 

 variety of cellulose ; Fi'brosin, a re- 

 serve substance resembling Fibrose, 

 found by Zopf in the conidia of cer- 

 tain Fungi, in the form of rounded 

 flattened ' discs, embedded in the 

 protoplasm ; -^ Bod'ies, the discs 

 described ; Fi'brotype {fibra, a fila- 

 ment ; typus, a type), Macdougal's 

 expression for the condition of a 

 root of Cephalanthera with a re- 

 duction and fusion of the stelar 

 compounds, and radially elongated 

 cortex : fi'bry, used by Loudon for 



FIBKOUS. . 



Fi'bula (Lat:, a buckle), a cylindrical 

 podetium, lierrainated by apothecia. 



fld'dle-shaped, panduriform. 



-fldus, Latki suffl*x for cleft, as tri- 

 fidua, three-cleft. 



Field -stra'tutn {stratum, a layer), 

 formed by grass and herbs and 

 dwarf shrubs (Warming). 



Fig-insect, the fertilizing agent in 

 caprification, Blasto})haga. 



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

 or'ia, the abortive " pistillidia " 

 of Mosses ; -^ succalent'a, para- 

 physes. 



Fil'ament, Filament'um {Jilum, a 

 thread), (1) the stilk 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 ; flla- 

 ment'ous filament'ose, fiktmento'- 

 sics, formeil of filaments or fibres ; 

 -^ Fung'us, growth - form of a 

 branched hyplia without union with 

 other hyphae ; -^ Myce'lium = 

 Fibrous Mycklium ; ~ Spor'ophore, 

 a simple sporophore ; -- Tbal'lus = 

 Fruticoije Thallus ; Fi'lar-plas ma 

 {ir\<icT/j.a, moulded), Strasburger's 

 term for Kinoplasm ; fila'rious 

 (Crozier) = filamentous ; fila'tus 



(Lat.) = VIROATUS. 



Files, a series of N'aviciila-like frust- 

 ules as in Micromcaa. 



Fii'ial {Jilia, a daujihter) -cell. Hen- 

 frey's term for daughter-cell ; '^ 

 Genera'tion, the first cross-bred 



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