GLOSSARY A\h INDEX. 205 



Falcate, scythe-shaped; a flat body curved, it- edges parallel. 



/ . Raa mi 8, 7S. 



Family, in botany same as Order, 177. 



Farina, meal or starchy matter, 136. 



Farinaceous, mealy in texture. Farinose, covered with a mealy powder* 



FasdaU , banded ; also applied to monstrous stems which grow Sat. 



FascicU , a close cluster, 77. 



Fascicled, Fasciculated, growing in a bundle or toft, a- the leaves "t Larch, OS, and 



r..nts of Peony, 36. 

 Fastigiate, close, parallel, and upright, as the branches of Lombardy Poplar. 

 Faux (plural, fauces), the throat of a calyx, corolla, &c., 89. 

 Faveolate, Favose, honeycombed; Bame as alveolate. 



Feather-veined, with veins of a leaf all springing from the sides of a midrib, 51. 

 Fecula or Fojcula, starch, L36. 

 Female flower or plant, one bearing pistil- only. 

 Fenestrate, pierced with one or more targe holes, like window-. 

 F> rrugineous, or Ferruginous, resembling iron-rust; red-grayish. 

 /■'< rtile, fruit-bearing, <>r capable of it; also said of anthers producing good pollen. 

 Fertilization, the process by which pollen causes the embryo to be formed, 114. 

 Fibre (woody), 133. Fibrous, containing much libre, or composed of fibres. 

 Fibrillose, formed of small fibres, or Fibrillar. 

 Fibro-vascular bundle or tissue, formed of fibres and vessels. 

 Fiddle-shaped, obovate with a deep recess on each side. 

 Fidus, Latin Buffix for cleft, as Bijid, two-cleft. 



Filament, the stalk of a stamen, 14, 80, 101; also any slender thread-shaped body. 

 Filamentose, or Filamentous, bearing or formed of slender threads* 

 Filiform, thread-shaped; long, slender, and cylindrical. 

 Fimbriate, fringed; furnished with fringes (fimbria). 

 Fimbrillate, Fimbrilliferous, bearing smsAl fimbria, i. Q.JimbrilUp. 

 Fissiparous, multiplying by division of oue body into two. 

 Fissus, Latin for split or divided. 



Fistular, or Fistulose, hollow and cylindrical, as the leaves of the Onion. 

 Flabelliform, or Flabellate, fan-shaped. 

 Flagellate, or Flagelliform, long, narrow, and flexible, like the thong of a whip; or 



like the runners (flayellce) of the Strawberry. 

 Flavescent, yellowish, or turning yellow. 

 Flavus, Latin for yellow. 

 Fleshy, composed of tirm pulp or flesh. 



v lexuose, or Flexuous, bending in opposite directions, in a zigzag way. 

 floating, swimming on the surface of water. 



Floccose, composed of or bearing tufts of Woolly or long and soft hairs. 

 Flora (the goddess of (lower-), the plants of a country or district, taken together, or 



a work systematically describing them, 9. 

 Floral Envelopes, or Flower-leaves, 7!». 

 Floret, a diminutive flower, one of a mass or cluster. 

 Floribund, abundantly floriferous. 

 Florula, the flora of a small district. 



Flos, floris, Latin for (lower. 



Flosculus, diminutive, same as floret. 



Flower, the whole organs of reproduction of Phamogamous plants, 14, 7J. 



Flower-bud, an unopened (lower. 



Flowering Plants, 10, 150. Flowerless Flouts, 10, 150. 



Fly-trap /> aves, 66. 



Fluitans, Latin for floating. Fhtviatile, belonging to ■ river or stream* 



Foliaceous, belonging to, or of the texture or nature of, ■ leal {folium). 



Foliate, provided with leave-. Latin prefixes denote the number of have-. 



Hate, trifoliate, 8pp. Folios*, leafy; abounding in leaves. 



Folivlate, relating to or bearing leaflets (foliola) ; trifoliate, with three leafli 



