Folial 



Force 



petals, etc. ; Fo'lial = Foliole ; 

 fo'liar, folia' ris, (1) leafy or leaf- 

 like, (2) inserted on, or forming an 

 appendix to a leaf, epiphyllous ; 

 cir'rhus folia' ris = tendril ; ^ Gap, 

 a mesh in the vascular bundle 

 cylinder from the margin of which 

 vascular bundles pass into the frond 

 in Ferns ; '- Spur, a dwarf shoot in 

 a pine-tree, which bears a pair of 

 leaves (Hartig) ; -^ Trace, = Leaf- 

 trace ; the remains of the vascular 

 bundle or bundles which supplied 

 the leaf. 



foliate, /o/m'<«s(Lat.), leaved, clothed 

 with leaves, as bi-fo'liate, two- 

 leaved, etc. 



Folia 'tion, Folia' tio (Lat.), vernation; 

 used by Grew for the act of leafing. 



Fo'liature {foliatura, foliage), Blair's 

 term for petals. 



folif' erous, foliiferous, -rus {folium, 

 a leaf; fero, I bear), leaf-bearing ; 

 foliic'olous {colo, I inhabit),, grow- 

 ing on leaves, as some Fungi and 

 Lichens ; folii'f erae Gem'mae (Lat.), 

 leaf -buds ; fo'liiform, foliiform'is 

 {forma, shape) = foliaceous ; foliip'- 

 arous, -rus {pario, I bring forth), 

 bearing leaves ; foliolar, relating 

 to a leaflet ; foliolate, foliola'tus, 

 clothed with leaflets ; bi-, tri-fo'lio- 

 late, two-, three-leafletted ; folio'- 

 lean, folcola'mts, gi-owing from the 

 end of a leaf. 



Fo'liole, Fol'iola (dim. of folium), 

 (1) a leaflet, the secondary division 

 of a compound leaf; (2) em- 

 ployed by Spruce for the postical 

 leaves of Hepaticae, those on 

 the ventral or rooting surface ; 

 foliolose, closely covered with leaf- 

 lets ; Fo'liolum, a small leaf or 

 leaflet ; io'\io&e, folio' sus, (1) closely 

 clothed with leaves ; (2) applied to 

 a lichen with a leaf-like expansion 

 ofthethallus : fo'lious, having leaves 

 intermixed with flowers ; Folium, 

 (Lat.), a leaf, pi. Folia. 



FoUice'tum {folHcul aw, a small bag), 

 a whorl of follicles ; Follicle, 

 FoUic'ulus, (1) a fruit of one carpel, 

 opening by a ventral suture to 



which the seeds are attached, 

 formerly applied to any capsular 

 fruit ; (2) by Linnaeus used for the. 

 bladder of Utricularia ; (3) a little 

 bladder on the leaves of some Mosses, 

 as Pottia cnvifolia, Ehrh. ; follic'ular, 

 follicula'ris^ folliculiformls {forma, 

 shape), shaped like a follicle. 



fonta'nus, fontinalis (Lat.), relating 

 to a spring), growing in or near a 

 spring of water. 



Food-bodies, small pear-shaped bodies 

 formed on or near the leaves of 

 certain plants, as Acacia spadici- 

 fera, Cham. & Schlecht., and Leea 

 aequMa, Linn., which are utilised 

 by ants as food; Ger. " Ameisen- 

 brbdchen." 



Foot, (1) as a measure, 12 inches, or 

 30'5 cm., sign '; (2) = Podium ; 

 (3) a development from the hypo- 

 basal part of the embrj'o, as an 

 organ of attachment and temporary 

 nutrition ; (4) in Myxogastres, 

 the first development from the 

 Plasmodium which leads to the 

 formation of spores, a cell-wall of 

 cellulose, forming an axis (Van 

 Tieghem) ; (5) the base of a hair, 

 often enlarged ; -- Cell, the spore 

 of Outtulina rosea, Cienk., arising 

 from a naked cell of protoplasm, 

 from the aggi'egated plasmodiura ; 

 '- Em'bryo, an arrested terminal 

 growth of the embryo of Cutleria, 

 thus differing from the pro to - 

 nematoid embryo of the same 

 si)ecies ; -^ Eot, a disease on 

 species of Citrus caused by Fus- 

 ariuin Limoiis, Briosi ; -^ Stalk, 

 a stem specialised as peduncle, 

 petiole, etc. 



Fora'men (Lat., a hole), an aperture, 

 especially that in the outer inte- 

 guments of the ovule; c/. Micro t'yle; 

 foram'inose, foramiiio'sus, per- 

 forated by holes ; Foramin'ula, 

 "the ostiolum of certain Fungals " 

 (Lindley) ; foramin'ulose, marked 

 with little holes. 



Force, any cause which chanores the 

 state of a body as to rest or motion ; 

 vital force is kinetic energy. 



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