OF GARDENING, 
Fic. 10, FERULA TINGITANA, 
involucre wanting. June. l shining; leaflets 
oblong-lanceolate, deeply toothed ; ape r sails las 
— Stem terete, branched. A. 6ft. 8 
1680. See Fig. 10. 
FERULAGO. Included under Ferula (which see). 
FESCUE GRASS. See Festuca. 
FESTUCA (the old Latin name, meaning originally 
a stem or straw). Fescue Grass. ORD. Graminee. A 
large genus, containing about eighty species, principally 
natives of Arctic, cold and temperate regions. Nine 
species are natives of Britain. They are chiefly agri- 
cultural grasses. Several are, however, very graceful, 
and deserving of cultivation. Panicles loose; spikelets 
oblong; more or less compressed. 
grescens are particularly neat and compact in growth, and 
are well adapted for borders. They are of the easiest 
culture in common garden soil. Propagated by seeds, 
or by divisions. 
FPEVERFEW. See Pyrethrum Parthenium. 
PEVILLEA (named after Louis Feuillée, 1660-1732, 
a traveller and botanist). Syn. Nhandiroba. ORD. 
Cucurbitacew. A genus containing five or six species 
of climbing shrubs, natives of tropical America. F. 
Moorei, perhaps the only one in cultivation, is a rampant 
evergreen stove climber, thriving in a sandy loam. 
Propagated by cuttings, made of the young wood, in 
summer, and inserted in sandy loam, under a bell glass, 
in heat. 
Moorei (Moore's). fi. (males only known) pale brick red; 
F. 
pedicel slender, jointed in the middle; corolla lobes orbicular, or 
f ents 
pene large, sheath- 
t. Northern Africa, 
F. glauca and F. ni- 
Fevillea—continued. 
broader towards the rounded apex; margins undulate. 1. alter- 
nate, membranous, 3in. to Sin. long, shining, gee ovate, long 
acuminate, rounded at the base, Guiana (7). A slender, quite 
glabrous climber. (B. M. 6356.) 
FIBRILLOSE. Covered with little strings or 
fibres. : j : 
FIBROUS. Composed of fibres. j 
FICARIA. This genus is now included under — 
Ranunculus (which see). 
FICOIDEZ. A large natural order, containing about — 
450 species, principally distributed throughout tropical — 
and sub-tropical regions. They are small shrubs, under- © 
shrubs, or herbs, Flowers terminal or axillary, solitary, — 
or in cymes, often very beautiful, sometimes minute and — 
inconspicuous. Leaves opposite or alternate, undivided, — 
usually fleshy or thickened, flat, terete, or triangular. — 
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gonia are used as pot-herbs. The genus just named, and 
Mesembryanthemum, are the best known; indeed, the 
natural order is called Mesembryanthemee in somë works. | 
