206 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Folium (plural, folia), Latin for leaf. 



Follicle, a simple pod, opening down the inner suture, 122. 



Follicular, resembling or belonging to a follicle. 



Food of Plants, 144. 



Foot-stalk, either petiole or peduncle, 49. 



Foramen, a hole or orifice, as that of the ovule, 110. 



Foraminose, Foraminulose, pierced with holes. 



Forked, branched in two or three or more. 



Fornicate, bearing fornices. 



Fornix, little arched scales in the throat of some corollas, as of Comfrey- 



Foveate, deeply pitted. Foveolate, diminutive oifoveate. 



Free, not united with any other parts of a different sort, 95. 



Fringed, the margin beset with slender appendages, bristles, &c. 



Frond, what answers to leaves in Ferns, &c., 157; or to the stem and leaves fused 



into one, as in Liverwort. 

 Frondescence, the bursting into leaf. 



Frondose, frond-bearing; like a frond, or sometimes used for leafy. 

 Fructif cation, the state or result of fruiting. 

 Fructus, Latin for fruit. 



Fruit, the matured ovan r and all it contains or is connected with, 117. 

 Fruit-dots in Ferns; see Sorus. 



Frustulose, consisting of a chain of similar pieces, or Frustules. 

 Frutescent, somewhat shrubb}' ; becoming a shrub (Frutex), 39. 

 Fruticulose, like a small shrub, or Fruticulus. Fruticose, shrubby, 39. 

 Fugacious, soon falling off or perishing. 

 Fulcrate, having accessory organs or fulcra, i. e. props. 

 Fulvous, tawny; dull yellow with gray. 

 Fungus, Fungi, 172. 



Funicle, Funiculus, the stalk of a seed or ovule, 110. 

 Funnelform, or funnel-shaped, expanding gradually upwards into an open mouth, 



like a funnel or tunnel, 90. 

 Furcate, forked. 



Furfuraceous, covered with bran-like fine scurf. 

 Furrowed, marked by longitudinal channels or grooves. 

 Fuscous, deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform, spindle-shaped, 36. 



Galbalus, the fleshy or at length woody cone of Juniper and Cypress. 



Galea, a helmet-shaped body, as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 87. 



Galeale, shaped like a helmet. 



Gamojietalous, of united petals, 89. 



Gamophyllous, formed of united leaves. Gamosepalous, formed of united sepals, 89. 



Geminate, twin; in pairs. 



Gemma, Latin for a bud. 



Gemmation, the state of budding; budding growth. 



Gemmule, a small bud; the plumule, 6. 



Genera, plural of genus. 



Geniculate, bent abruptly, like a knee (genu), as many stems. 



Generic Names, 179. 



Genus, a kind of a rank above species, 177. 



Germ, a growing point; a young bud; sometimes the same as embryo, 127. 



Germen, the old name for ovary. 



Germination, the development of a plantlet from the seed, 12. 



Gerontogatous, inhabiting the Old World. 



Gibbous, more tumid at one place or on one side than the other 



Gilvous, dirty reddish-yellow. 



Glabrate, becoming glabrous with age, or almost glabrous. 



Glabrous, smooth, in the sense of having no hairs, bristles, or other pubescence. 



