216 GLOSSARY. 



Flruose, or Fle'xuous: bending gently in opposite directions, in a zigzag way. 



Floating: swimming on the surface of water. 



Fldccose : composed, or bearing tufts, of woolly or long and soft hairs. 



Flora (the goddess of flowers) : the plants of a country or district, taken 



together, or a work systematically describing them ; p. 3. 

 Floral: relating to the blossom. 

 Floral Envelopes : the leaves of the flower ; p. 85, 99. 

 Floret : a diminutive flower ; one of the flowers of a head (or of the so-called 



compound flower) of Composite, p. 100. 



Flower : the whole organs of reproduction of Pha3nogamous plants ; p. 84. 

 Flower-bad: an unopened flower. 



Flowering Plants, p. 177. Flowcrless Plants, p. 172, 177. 

 Folidceous: belonging to, or of the texture or nature of, a leaf (folium). 

 Fdliose : leafy ; abounding in leaves. 

 Fdliolate: relating to or bearing leaflets (foliold). 



Follicle: a simple pod, opening down the inner suture ; p. 131, fig. 302. 

 Follfcular : resembling or belonging to a follicle. 

 Food of Plants, p. 160. 



Foramen: a hole or orifice, as that of the ovule ; p. 122. 

 Fornix : little arched scales in the throat of some corollas, as of Comfrey. 

 Fornicate : over-arched, or arching over. 

 Fo'veate: deeply pitted. Fovcolate: diminutive of foveate. 

 Free: not united with any other parts of a different sort ; p. 103. 

 Fringed : the margin beset with slender appendages, bristles, c. 

 Frond : what answers to leaves in Ferns ; the stem and leaves fused into one 



body, as in Duckweed and many Liverworts, c. 

 Frondescence : the bursting into leaf. 



Frdndose : frond-bearing ; like a frond : or sometimes used for leafy. 

 Fructification : the state of fruiting. Organs of, p. 76. 

 Fruit: the matured ovary and all it contains or is connected with; p. 126. 

 Fntf escent: somewhat shrubby ; becoming a shrub (frutex). 

 Fruticulose: like a small shrub. Fniticose: shrubby; p. 36. 

 Fugacious : soon falling off or perishing. 

 Fulvous : tawny ; dull yellow with gray. 

 Funiculus: the stalk of a seed or ovule; p. 122. 

 Funnel-form, or Funnel-shaped: expanding gradually upwards, like a funnel 



or tunnel; p. 102. 

 Flirt-ate : forked. 



Furfurdceous : covered with bran-like fine scurf. 

 Furrowed: marked by longitudinal channels or grooves. 

 Fuscous: deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform: spindle-shaped; p. 32. 



Gdleate: shaped like a helmet (galca) ; as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 



fig. 185, and the upper lip of the corolla of Dcad-Ncttle, fig. 209. 

 Gamope'talous : of united petals ; same as monojtetalous, and a better word ; p. 102. 

 Gamophyllous : formed of united leaves. Gamosc'palous : formed of united sepals. 

 Gelatine, p. 165, 



