182 DICTIONARY OF POPULAR NAMES FRENCH 



vince of Beliar and Western India, having its leaves crowded at 

 the tops of the branches. The Olibanum is obtained by making 

 incisions in the bark, when the sap exudes and becomes hardened 

 in transparent masses. It finds its way to Bombay, which is 

 also the emporium for African Olibanum. OUbanum, better 

 known as Frankincense, is extensively used as incense in the 

 Greek and Eoman Catholic Churches. A gum-resin called 

 Sierra Leone Frankincense is the produce of Daniellia tJmrifera, 

 a large tree of the Caesalpiniese section of the Bean family 

 (Leguminosae), native of Western tropical Africa. The name 

 Frankincense is also applied to the turpentine, which hardens 

 by exposure on the trunks of some species of the Pinus, such as 

 P. australis, P. tceda, and others. 



French Bean. (See Kidney Bean.) 



French Honeysuckle (Hedysarum coronariiim), a biennial 

 clover-like plant of the Bean family (Leguminosse), native of 

 the South of Europe, and cultivated as food for cattle. 



Fringe Flower {CJdonanthus virginica), a shrub or small 

 tree of the Olive family (Oleaceae), with simple ovate leaves, and 

 white flowers produced in terminal panicles; the corolla is divided 

 into long narrow segments, which gives rise to the name Fringe 

 Flower. It is a native of Virginia, and is hardy in this 

 country. 



Fringe (Water) {Limnanthemum nymphceoides), a floating 

 aquatic of the Gentian family (Gentianacese), native of this 

 country, and originally known by the name of Menyantlies 

 nymjphmoides, the Fringed Buckbean, from which it differs in 

 having floating round leaves like (but smaller than) the white 

 water-lily. It has pretty yellow flowers fringed in the interior 

 with fine hairs. It is found in the Thames near Oxford, and 

 some years ago it was also found in pools and ponds of the 

 Thames VaUey, near London. 



Fuchsia, a genus of the Evening Primrose family (Onagra- 

 ceae), named by Linnseus in honour of Fuchs, a celebrated 

 German botanist. The typical species of the genus F. coccinea 

 was introduced in 1788 ; it is a native of Chili. It was not till 



