Flos 



Foliage 



Flos (Lat.), an assemblage of the 

 organs essential for fertilizatioD , as 

 stamens and pistils, with some pro- 

 tecting envelope ; — A'quae, floating 

 Algae, as Rivularia fluitans, Cohn ; 

 '~ compos'itus X = Capitulum ; '~ 

 ple'nus, a double flower, where the 

 stamens or pistils, or both, are con- 

 verted into petals ; flos'cular, flos'- 

 culouB, flosculo'sus (1) relating to 

 florets or flowers, or presenting many 

 florets ; (2) w4th tubular florets. 



Flos'cule, Flos'culum (Blair), Flos- 

 cidvs, a little flower, a floret ; Sem'i- 

 flos'cule, a composite floret ; Floss, 

 the down in certain Compositae, 

 as Thistle-down : Flossifica'tion, 

 flowering, expansion of flowers. 



Flou'rish, Blair's word for a disk -floret 

 of Compositae ; half '-- the same for 

 ligulate florets. 



Flow'er, defined under Flos ; -- Bud, 

 an unexpanded flower, as distinct 

 from a leaf-bud ; --' Head, a cluster 

 or flowers, as the Capitulum or 

 Head in Compositae ; Flow'erage, 

 the state of being in flower ; 

 Flow'eret, a small flower, a floret ; 

 Flow'eriness, abounding with flowers; 

 Flow'ering, the maturity of the 

 floral organs, and exi-ansion of their 

 envelopes ; '-' Glume, the lower of 

 the two organs which subtend the 

 flower of Grasses (the upper being 

 the palea) ; ~ Plants = Phanero- 

 gams ; flow'erless, destitute of 

 flowers ; ~ Plants = Cryptogams ; 

 Flow'erlessness, absence of flowers ; 

 flow'ery, abounding in flowers. 



Flow'ers of Tan = Aethaliuw septicum, 

 ¥r ; '^ of Wine, growth of Sac- 

 charomyces Mycoderma, Reess. 



fL\i'\iB.Jit, fluitans (Lat.), floating. 



Fluke-cell, resembling the fluke of an 

 anchor ; in shaggy hairs of Crano- 

 carpus. 



flumina'lis, flumin'eus ( fluvien, a 

 river), applied to plants Avhich grow 

 in running water. 



Fluores'cence (from Fluor-spar), the 

 property of diminishing the re- 

 frangibility of light ; ~ of Chlor'o- 

 phyll, the shifting of the spectrum 



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by the colouring matter contained 

 in chlorophyll ; fluorescigen'ic ( + 

 Fluorescence ; 76^05, ofl'spring), 

 causing fluorescence, as certain 

 bacteria. 

 Flush, a shallow runnel floored with 

 vegetation result (Crampton) ; — 

 Snow- -^ tracks of channels leading 

 from snow-patches ; cf. Anthelia. 

 flu'vial, ftuvia'lis, fluviat'ic (Crozier), 

 flu'viatile, fluviat'ilis {Lsit.), applied 

 to plants groAving in streams. 

 Fly-flow'ers, those specially adapted to 

 be fertilized by flies ; Fly-traps, 

 contrivances by which insects are 

 caught, as pitchers, tentacles of 

 Drosera, etc. ; Fly-wood, oakwood 

 destroyed by Stereum (Tubeuf). 

 Fly'ing-hairs, hairs which aid seeds 

 in dispersal ; -^ Mem'brane, the 

 expanded structures in winged seeds ; 

 '■^ Tis'sue. the structure composing 

 the last (Haberlandt). 

 foemin'eus = femineus, female, 

 foeni'nus {foenum, hay), "hay grey" 



(Hayne). 

 foe'tidus (Lat., stinking), fetid, smell- 

 ing strongly and disagreeably ; 

 Foe'tor (Lat., a stench), the odour 

 given oft" by flowers which thereby 

 attract carrion flies. 

 folded, in vernation when the two 

 halves of a leaf are applied to one 

 another ; '^ Tis'sue, endoderm with 

 suberified or liquified membrane, 

 confined to a band on the lateral 

 and transverse faces' of the cells, 

 without thickening (Van Tieghem). 

 Folds of Sa'nio = Sanio's Rims. 

 folia'ceous, -exts {folium, a leaf; -f- 

 ACEors), having the texture or 

 shape of a leaf, as the branches of 

 Xylophylla ; — Thal'lus, a frondose 

 thallus, flat and leaf-like, usually 

 crisped and lobed, which spieads 

 over the surface <m which it grows, 

 and can be detached without much 

 injury ; Folia'ceae, frondose vascu- 

 lar Cryptogams ; Fo'liage, the leafy 

 covering, especially of trees ; -^ 

 Leaves, ordinary leaves, as distin- 

 guished from those which have 

 undergone metamorphoses as bracts, 



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