BOTANICAL TERMS. 471 



Endogcnus: Increasing on the inside. Ex. Cane. 

 Exogenous. Increasing on the outside. Ex. Ooii. 



Falcate. Sickle-shaped. Linear and crooked 



farina. The pollen. Also meal or Hour. 



Farinaceous. Mealy. 



fascicle. A bundle. Ex Sweet William. 



Fascicled, or fasciculate. Collected in bundles. 



Fast.igiate. Flat topped. Ex. Aster unubellata. 



Fuvose. Resembling a honey comb. 



Ferns. An order of cryptogamous plants bearing the fructification com- 

 monly on the ba k of the leaf, or in spikes, nuuie up of minute cap- 

 sules opening transversely. Ex. PoK podium. (l j oiijjj(>d.) 



Fertile. Containing perfect pistils and yielding fruit. 



Filiform. Thread like, or very slender. 



Fnttbriat". Finely divided at the edge, like fringe. Ex. Orchis timbnata. 



Fislulous. Hollow or tubular. Ex. Eupatoriuai verticillatum. 



FLabelliform. Spreading like a fan. 



Fltigelliform,. Like a whiplash. 



Fte.ruous. Serpentine or zigxag. 



Floral leaf. See Bract. 



Floral envelopes. The calyx, bract, and corolla, which envelope the 

 inner parts of the flower. 



Foot-stalk. The stalk of either flower or leaf. Ex. Aster. 



Floret. A little flower. One in an aggregate or compound flower. 



Floscular. A floret in a compound flower which is tubular, not ligulate. 



Follicle. A seed vessel which opens lengthwise, or on one side only ; 

 as in Apocynum androsfemi folium, Fig. 130. 



Frond. The leaf of cryptogamous plants. Ex. Fern. 



Fructification. The flower and fruit with their parts. 



Frutescejit. Becoming shrubby. 



Fruticose. Shrubby. 



Fugacious. Lasting only for a short time. 



Fungi. The order of cryptogamous plants to which the mushrooms 

 belong. 



Fungous. Growing rapidly and prcternaturally, with a soft texture like 

 the fungi. Ex. Mushrooms, ( Toad-stools.') 



Funnel-shaped. Tubular at bottom and gradually expanding at top ; 

 as the flowers of Datura stramonium. 



Fulvous. Yellow; fox -colored. 



Furfuraceous. Resembling bran. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped. When a root is large at top and tapers 

 downwards, as in the Carrot and Radish. 



Galls. Excrescences caused by the bite of an insect. Ex. Oak. 

 Gemmaceous. Belonging to a bud. Made of the scales of a bud. 

 Generic. Belonging to a genus. 

 Oeniculate. Bent like a knee. 



Genus. A family of plants agreeing in their flower and fruit. 

 Germ. The lower part of the pistil, which afterwards becomes the fruit. 

 Germination. The sprouting of a seed. 

 Gibbous. Swelled out, commonly on one side. 



Glabrous. Smooth, as it regards hairiness or pubescence. Ex. Kalmia. 

 Gland. A small roundish appendage, apparently performing some 

 function of secretion or excretion. Ex. Moss Rose. 

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