^OG GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Folium (plural, /"?K(), Latin for leaf. 



Follicle, a simple pod, opeiiiiif; down the inner suture, 122. 



Follicular, resembling or belonging to a follicle. 



Food of Plants, 144. 



Footstalk, either petiole or peduncle, 49. 



Foramen, a hole or orifice, as that of the ovule, 110. 



Foraminose, Foraminulose, pierced with holes. 



Forked, branched in two or three or more. 



Fo7-nicate, bearing fornices. 



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



Foveate, deeply pitted. Foveolaie, diminutive oi foveate. 



Free, not united with any other parts of a different sort, 95. 



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



Frond, what answers to leaves in Ferns, &c., 157; or to the stem and /eaves fused. 



into one, as in Liverwort. 

 Frondescence, the bursting into leaf. 



Frondose, frond-bearing; like a frond, or sometimes used for leafy. 

 Fructijication, the state or result of fruiting. 

 Fructus, Latin for fruit. 



Fruit, the matured ovary and all it contains or is connected with, 117. 

 Fniit-dots in Ferns; see Sorus. 



Frustulose, consisting of a chain of similar pieces, or Frustules. 

 Frutescent, somewhat shrubb\'; becoming a shrub (Frutex), 39. 

 Fruticulose, like a small shrub, or F ruticulus. Fruticose, shrubby, 39. 

 Fugacious, soon fallinjr off or perishing. 

 Fulcrate, having accessory organs or fulcra, i. e. props. 

 Fulvous, tawn\-; dull yellow with gray. 

 Fungus, Fungi, 172. 



Funicle, Funiculus, the stalk of a seed or ovule, 110. 

 FunnelJ'orm, or funneUshnped, expanding gradually upwards into an open mouth, 



like a funnel or tunnel, 90. 

 Furcate, forked. 



Furfuraceous, covered with bran-like fine scurf. 

 Furrowed, marked by longitudinal channels or grooves. 

 Fuscous, deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform, spindle-shaped, 36. 



Galbalus, the fleshy or at length woody cone of .Juniper and Cypress. 



Galea, a helmet-shaped bod}-, as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 87. 



Galeate, shaped like a helmet. 



Gamnpetalous, of united petals, 89. 



Gamophyllous, formed of united leaves. Gamosepalous, formed of united sepals, 89. 



Geminate, twin; in pairs. 



Gemma, Latin for a bud. 



Gemmation, the state of budding; budding growth. 



Gemmule, a small bud; the plumule, C. 



Genera, plural of genus. 



Geniculate, bent abruptly, like a knee (genu), as manj' stems. 



Generic Names, 179. 



Genus, a kind of a rank above species, 177. 



Germ, a growing point; a young bud; sometimes the same as embryo, 127. 



Germen, the old name for ovar}'. 



Germination, tiie development of a plantlet from the seed, 12- 



Geron'ogwous, inhabiting the Old World. 



Gibbous, more tumid at one place or on one side than the other. 



Gilvous, dirty reddish-yellow. 



Ghibrate, l)ecoming glalirous with age, or almost glabrous. 



Glabrous, smooth, in the sense of having no hairs, bristles, or other pubescence. 



