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Fari'r,A, (from far, corn.) Meal or flour. A tenn given to the glu- 

 tinous part of wheat ana other seeds, which is obtained by grinding 

 an- 1 sifting 



It consis s of gluten, starch, and mucilage The pollen is also 

 called farina. 



Pas'cide. A bundle. 



Fasciculate. Collected in bundles. 



Fastig'iate. Flat topped. 



f'avo'sus. Resembling a honey comb. 



Faux. Jaws. The throat of the corolla. 



Ferns. Cryptognmous plants, with the fruit on the backs of the *eav * 

 or in spikes made up of minute capsules opening transversely. 



Fcr'tile. Pistillate, yielding fruit. 



FU'ament. The slender, thread-like part of the stamen. 



Fil'ices, (fromjilum, a thread,) Ferns. 



Fil'iform. Very slender. 



Fim'briaU. Divided at the edge like fringe. 



Fis'tulous. Hollow or tubular, as the leaf of the onion. 



Flac'cid. Too limber to support its own weight. 



Flagel'liform. Like a whip lash. 



Flam'mfus. Flame coloured. 



Fla'vus. Yellow. 



Flex'uous.' Serpentine, or bending in a zig-zag form. 



Flo'ra. Considered by the heathens as the goddess of flowers. BOOKS 

 describing flowers are often called Floras. 



Fin' ml leaf. See Bract. 



Flo' ret. Little flower, part of a compound flower. 



Flos' cular. A tubular floret. 



Flow'er. (Flos.) A term which was formerly applied almost exclu- 

 sively to the petals. At present a stamen and pistil only are con- 

 sidered as forming a perfect flower. 



Flow'er stalk. See Peduncle. 



Folia' ceous. Leafy. 



Follicles. Leafets; a diminutive of folium, a leaf. The smaller 

 leaves which constitute a compound leaf. 



Fo'lium leaf. Leaves are fibrous &nd cellular processes of plants ; they 

 are of different figures, but generally extended into a membranous* 

 or skinny substance. 



Fol'lidc. 'A seed vessel which opens lengthwise, or on one side only. 



Foot'-stalk. Sometimes used instead of Peduncle and Petiole. 



Frag'ilis. Breaking easily, and not bending 



Frond. The leaf of Cryptogamous plants ; foi f .rly applied to palms, o 



Frondes' cence, (from/fwtt, a leaf.) The time in which each species 

 of plants unfolds its leaves. See Frondose. 



Frondo'se. (Frondosus.) Leafy, or leaf-like. 



Fruchfica'tion. The flower and fruit wi&. ilieir parts. 



Fructiferous. Bearing or becoming ff.it 



Frvc'tus. The fruit. This is an annual JM, of the plant which ad- 

 heres to the flower and succeeds it; after attaining maturity it detaches 

 itself from the parent plant, and on being placed in the bosom of the 

 earth, gives birth toaneu vegetable. In common language, the fruit 

 UK ludes both the pericarp and the seed, hut strictly speaking, the 



