Facultative 



OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



Fascicle 



FACULTATIVE, occasional; in- 

 cidental. Compare Obligate. 



FACULTATIVE PARASITE, a 



plant (usually a saporophytic 

 fungus) capable of passing 

 through at least certain stages 

 of its development as a para- 

 site, but which does not always 

 or necessarily do so. 



FACULTATIVE SAP'ROPHITE, a 

 plant (usually applied to para- 

 sitic fungi) which is capable of 

 living as a saprophyte during 

 the whole or a part of its life. 



FJEC'UlA, see Fecula. 



FAL'CATE, scythe - shaped, or 

 sickle-shaped. Compare Unci- 

 nate. . 



FAL'ClFORM, see Falcate. 



FALSE, similar in appearance, 

 but different in structure or 

 origin; spurious. The same 

 as the Greek pseudo-. 



FALSE DICHdT'OMY, any dichot- 

 omous appearance which does 

 not arise from a terminal divi- 

 sion of the main axis, as a 

 dichasium. 



FALSE DISSEP'IMENT, one of 

 the additional partitions in 

 certain fruits which is not 

 formed by the edges of car- 

 pels. False dissepiments fre- 

 quently proceed from the 

 dorsal suture. 



FALSE INDU§IUM, a recurved 

 margin of the frond in ferns 

 covering the sporangia, as in 

 the genus Pteris. 



FALSE RACEME', see Helicoid 

 Cyme. 



FALSE PAREN'CHYMA, see 



PSEUDOPARENCHYMA. 



FAm'ILY, the same as Order, 

 which see, and in more fa- 

 miliar use. The term is also 

 employed, especially among 

 cryptogams, to indicate groups 

 lower than the order. In hor- 



ticulture it is sometimes used 

 to indicate groups of related 

 varieties, as the Duchess fam- 

 ily among apples. 



FAN'-SHAPED, like a fan in out- 

 line, especially if also plaited; 

 flabellif orm ; flabellate. 



FAN'-VEINED, see Palmately- 



VEINED. 



FARCTATE, without vacuities; 

 stuffed; obstructed; infarctate; 

 infarcted; opposed especially 

 to ristulose. Seldom used, the 

 word solid or turgid being 

 nearly always preferable. See 

 Stuffed. 



FARI'NA, starch. Formerly ap- 

 plied also to pollen. 



FAR!NA'§EOUS, containing 

 starch, or of the texture of 

 meal or flour. 



FARINOSE, covered with a white 

 mealy powder. 



FAR'lNOSE, n., a supposititious 

 cellulose substance in starch- 

 grains, which is not colored 

 blue by iodine. Compare 

 Granulose. 



FAS'glA lfdsh-l-a] (pi. Fas'ciae), 

 a cross- band, especially of 

 color. (Rare.) 



FAS'glATflD, (1) having broad 

 parallel bands or stripes; 

 (2) exhibiting fasciation, which 

 see. 



FASCIA'TION, a monstrous flat- 

 tened expansion of the stem, 

 as in the garden cockscomb 

 (Celosia). 



FASCICLE, a bundle, as the 

 clustered leaves on the dor- 

 mant branches or spurs of the 

 larch; a bundle of tuberous 

 roots, as in the dahlia; a fibro- 

 vascular bundle, especially if 

 rudimentary; a close cyme, as 

 in sweet-william; a bundle of 

 herbarium specimens. 



