flime-coldured 



florus 



-flame-coloured, jlam'meus (Lat.), fiery 



red. 

 Flange, (1) a ring-like projection of 

 the integuraental lining of tlie 

 micropyle of certain fossil seeds ; 

 (2) Bower's term for the apparent 

 margin of the pinnae in Blechnum. 

 Flank- cur v'ature, unequal gi'owth of 

 climbers, Ger. " Flanken-Kriim- 

 mung " ; Flanks, the lateral sur- 

 faces of a bilateral body. 

 Flask, the utricle of Carex; flask- 

 shaped, having the form of a 

 Florence flask, somewhat globular, 

 with a drawn-out neck. 

 Flats, proposed equivalent for the 



German " Etagenbildung." 

 Flat'tening, (1) the fasciation of a 

 stem ; (2) the production of a 

 cladodium. 

 Flave'do (Lat.), yellowness, a disease 

 in which the green parts have be- 

 come yellow. 

 flaves'cent, flaves'cens (Lat.), yellow- 

 ish, becoming yellow ; fla'vicans, 

 fla'vidus (Lat.), somewhat yellow ; 

 Fla'vone [fiavus, .yellow), a natural 

 yellow colouring matter occurring in 

 plants ; fla'vo-vi'rens (Lat.), yellow- 

 ish green ; fla'vous, fla'vics, nearly 

 pure yellow, a bright clear hue. 

 Flee'ciaess, villosity. 

 Flesh, the soft parts, as the flesh of 



apples or pears ; flesh'y, succulent. 

 flexed Xflexus, bent), used of Diatoms 

 which appear as though bent ; 

 flexible, flex'ilis, Jlexib'ilis, capable 

 of being bent, but elastic enough 

 to be able to resume its original 

 figure ; flex'uose, flexuo'sus, flex-' 

 uous, bent alternately in opposite 

 directions, zigzag ; Flex'nre, the 

 "bend" of Diatoms, 

 float'ing, borne on the surface of 

 water; - Tis'sue, air-containing 

 tissue in the seeds of plants dis- 

 persed by water currents (Haber- 

 landt) . 

 Floc'ci, pi. of Floc'cufl (Lat , a lock of 

 wool), locks of soft hair or wool ; 

 floc'cose, Jiocco'sus, bearing flocci, --' 

 Myce'lium, = Fibuous Mycelium ; 

 floc'culent, Jlocculent'ics, diminutive 



of FLOCCOSE ; floc'culose, like wool 

 (Leighton). 

 Flo'ra (Lat., goddess of flowers), (1) 

 the aggregate plants of a country 

 or district, (2) a work which con- 

 tains an enumeration of them ; 

 Flo'rae Horolo'gium, a floral clock, 

 certain plants arranged in the order 

 of the hours of opening or closing ; 

 flo'ral, flora'lis, belong to flowers ; 

 '^ A'pex = Mamelon ; ~ Di'agram, 

 a drawing to show the relative 

 position and number of the con- 

 stituent parts ; --' En'velopes, the 

 perianth leaves, calyx and corolla ; 

 -- Glume, the lower glume of the 

 flower iu grasses ; flowering glume 

 (Beal) ; -- Leaf = Bract ; a sug- 

 gested equivalent for the Ger. 

 "Hochblatt." 

 Flores'cence, Florescen'tia, anthesis, 

 the period of flowering ; Flo'ret, a 

 small flower, one of a cluster, aa in 

 Compositae. 

 floribun'dns {flos, floris, a fl^ower ; 

 abitndtcs, = production of present 

 activity), abounding in flowers ; 

 Floricurture {cuUura, cultivation), 

 cultivation of flowers, flower garden- 

 ing ; Flor'ie, Grew's word for peri- 

 anth ; flo'rifer (Lat), florlf'erous, 

 flower-bearing ; florif'erae Gem'ma«, 

 flower buds ; Floriflca'tion, the act 

 or time of flowering ; flo'riform 

 {forma, shape), shaped like a flower ; 

 Flo'riglume, the flowering glume in 

 grasses ; Flo'rilege {lego, I gather), 

 a treatise on flowers ; florip'arous, 

 -us {pario, I bring forth), (1) pro- 

 ducing flowers, (2) a monstrosity 

 producing other flowers instej^d of 

 fruit ; Flo'rist, (1) a cultivator of 

 flowers, especially those variable 

 forms known as florist's flowers, (2) 

 a writer of a Flora, (3) in foreign 

 usage ' ' Florist " means a local botan- 

 ist ; Floraecorogy, used for the 

 ecology of flowers (Lovell) ; Flo'rula, 

 (1) a small flora, (2) the botanic 

 accoimt of 'a small district ; flo'ru- 

 lent, flowery ; flo'rns, in composition 

 means flowered, as uni-fiorxts, one- 

 flowered. 



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