GLOSSARY. 



Filtrate, to strain, percolate through 

 a paper. 



Filament. Slender thread-like part of 

 the stamen, etc. 



Fimbriated. Divided at the edge like 

 fringe. 



Fistulous. Hollow or tubular, as the 

 stalk of the onion. 



Fleshy. Thick and pulpy. 



Flora. The goddess of flowers ; de- 

 scriptions of flowers are called 

 Floras. Floral leaf. Bract. 



Floret. Little flower ; part of a com- 

 pound flower. Florist. One who 

 cultivates flowers. 



Flower, (Flos.) Formerly applied 

 mostly to the petals. At present a 

 stamen and pistil only form a per- 

 fect flower. FloweT'Stalk. Pedun- 

 cle. 



Foliaceous. Leafy. 



Foliated, formed like leaves. 



Follicle. Seed-vessel opening length- 

 wise, or on one side only. 



Foot-stalk. Used instead of peduncle 

 and petiole. 



Friable, easily crumbled or reduced to 

 powder. 



Frond. Leaf of cryptogamous plants. 

 Frondescence. Time in which a 

 species of plants unfolds its first 

 leaves. Frondose. Leafy, or leaf- 

 like. 



Fructification, the act of causing fruit ; 

 theory of generation. 



Fructiferous. Bearing or becoming 

 fruit. 



Fungi. Plural of fungus, a mushroom. 



Fungous. Growing rapidly with a soft 

 texture like the fungi. 



Funicle. Stalk which connects the 

 ovule to the ovary. 



Fusiform. Spindle-shaped; a root 

 thick at the top and tapering down- 

 wards. 



Galvanic, relating to galvanism, a fluid 

 like electricity, excited by chemical 

 action by means of an arrangement 

 of copper and zinc plates, between 

 which is a surface of sulphuric acid 

 and water, the whole is called a 

 galvanic battery. 



Ganglia, enlargements in the course of Herb 

 nerves, sometimes called little brains 

 and having apparently some similar 

 functions in the lowest animals 



Galic Add, obtained from galls and 

 other vegetable astringents, and 

 composed of 7 carbon, 3 hydrogen, 

 and 5 oxygen. 



Gemmaceous. Belonging 10 a bud ; the 

 scales of a bud. 



Generic name. The name of a genus. 



Genus. (Plural, genera.) A family 

 of plants agreeing in their flower and 

 fruit. Plants of the same genus are 

 thought to possess similar medicinal 

 properties. 



Germ. Lower part of the pistil, after- 

 wards the fruit. Germination. Swel- 

 ing of a seed and the unfolding of 

 its embryo. 



Gibbous. Swelled out, commonly on 

 one side. 



'land. An appendage for secretion 

 or exhalation. 



'lume. Scales or chafF of grasses, 

 composing the calyx and corolla ; 

 the lower ones are the calyx, all 

 others the corolla ; each scale, chart', 

 or husk, is a valve ; if but one, the 

 flower is univalve, if two, bivalve, 

 rafting, the process of uniting the 

 branches or buds ot separate trees. 

 By inserting these into the bark, the 

 tree thus engrafted upon, becomes 

 the stock. 



Gramina. Grasses and grass-like plants. 

 Mostly in the class Triandria. 

 Gramineous. Grass-like ; or culmi- 

 Jerous. 



Zrandiftorus. Having large flowers. 



jrranular. Formed of, or covered 

 with grains. 



gregarious. In flocks, plants growing 

 in groups. 



jfra?nnivorous, grain or grass eating, 

 feeding on herbs. 



Gymnocarpes. (Gumnos, naked, and 

 'karpos, fruit.) Fruits not covered 

 or concealed. Gymnospermia. (Gum- 

 nos, naked, and sperma, seed.) Hav- 

 ing naked seeds. 



ynandrous. Stamens growing upon 

 the pistil. 



Hepatic. Liver-like, belonging to the 

 liver. 



erb. A plant without a woody stem. 

 Herbaceous. Not woody. Herbage. 

 Every part of a plant except the root 

 and parts of fructification. 



