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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Ferula continued. 



FIG. 10. FERULA TINGITANA. 



involucre wanting. June. I. shining; leaflets or segments 

 oblong-lanceolate, deeply toothed ; upper petiole large, sheath- 

 ing. Stem terete, branched, h. 6ft. to 8ft. Northern Africa, 

 1680. See Fig. 10. 



FER/ULAOrO. Included under Ferula (which see). 



FESCUE GRASS. See Festuca. 



FESTUCA (the old Latin name, meaning originally 

 a stem or straw). Fescue Grass. ORD. Graminece. 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. F glauca and F . ni- 

 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. 



FEVERFEW. See Pyrethrum Fartlienium. 



FEVILLEA (named after Louis Feuillee, 1660-1732, 

 a traveller and botanist). STN. Nhandiroba. ORD. 

 Cucurbitacece. 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. 

 P. Moorei (Moore's), fl. (males only known) pale brick red; 



pedicel slender, jointed in the middle ; corolla lobes orbicular, or 



Fevillea continued. 



d apex ; mar 



, in. long, shi 



acuminate rounded at the base. Guiana (V). A slender, quite 

 glabrous climber. (B. M. 6366.) 

 FIBB.ILI.OSE. Covered with little strings or 



broader towards the rounded apex ; margins undulate. 1. alter- 

 nate, membranous, Sin. to Bin. long, shining broadly ovate, long 



FIBROUS. Composed of fibres. 



FICARIA. This genus is now included under 

 Ranunculus (which see). 



FICOIDEJE. 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. 

 None of the genera are of much importance from an 

 economic point of view ; some of the species of Tetra- 

 gonia are used as pot-herbs. The genus just named, and 

 Mesembryanthemum, are the best known; indeed, the 

 natural order is called Mesembryanthemece in some works. 



FIG. 11. Ficrs Cooi'KRi (page 12). 



