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EXTRA- AXILLARY, buds or flowers not produced in the axils. 

 EXTRORSE, anthers opening outwards from the pistil. 



FALCATE, bent like a sickle. 



FARINOSE, having a mealy surface. 



FASCICULATE, arranged in a bundle, springing from nearly the 



same point. 

 FASTIGIATE, having a pyramidal form, from the branches being 



nearly parallel to the stem. 

 FEATHER- VEINED, veins passing from the midrib to the edge of 



the leaf. 



FEATHERY, resembling a feather. 

 FIBROUS, composed of many small fibres. 

 FILAMENT, the stalk supporting an anther. 

 FILIFORM, like a thread. 

 FIMBRIATED, fringed at the margin. 

 FISTULOUS, hollow as in the stems of grasses. 

 FLABELLIFORM, in the form of a fan. 

 FLAGELLUM, a creeping stem, producing rooting buds, as in the 



straivberry . 



FLEXUOSE, undulating, or zigzag in direction. 

 FLOCCOSE, covered with woolly tufts. 

 FOLIACEOUS, having the colour and consistence of leaves. 

 FOLLICLE, a small one-celled free carpel, dehiscing by the ventral 



suture only. 



FORAMEN, a small opening or pore, as in the ovule. 

 FORNICATE, arched or vaulted over. 

 FORKED, dividing by twos. 



FOVILLA, the granular contents of the pollen grain. 

 FROND, the leaf in Ferns. 

 FRUCTIFICATION, all parts composing the fruit. 

 FRUIT, the seed vessel and contents when ripe. 

 FRUTICOSE, shrubby. 

 FUGACIOUS, soon falling off. 



FUNICULUS, the cord attaching the ovule to the placenta. 

 FUNNEL-SHAPED or INFUNDIBULIFORM, tubular below, gradually 



widening upwards. 



FURCATE, forked, dividing into two branches. 

 FUSIFORM, spindle-shaped, tapering to each end from a thick 



centre. 



GALEATE, arched and concave like a helmet. 



GAMOSEPALOUS, a calyx of one piece. Gamopetalous, a corolla of 



one piece. 



GELATINOUS, having the consistence of jelly. 

 GENICULATE, bent like the knee. 

 GERMEN, the ovary. 



GIBBOUS, swollen at the base on one side. 

 GLABROUS, smooth, without hairs. 



