FABA (phago, to eat; jaelds edible seeds). Legu- 

 tninosse. A genus established by Tournefort for cer- 

 tain plants now referred to Vicia. Faba vulgaris, 

 Moench, is the horse bean, broad bean or Windsor 

 bean, now accepted as Vicia Faba. From other groups 

 in Vicia, it differs mostly in its stiff erect habit and the 

 very large fleshy seeds and pods. The name Fabacese 

 is sometimes used instead of Legmninosse, and some- 

 times for the papihonaceous leguminosae. 



FABIANA (after Francisco Fabiano, Spanish bota- 

 nist, Valencia). Solanaces?. Small heath -hke shrubs; 

 one is sometimes grown in cool greenhouses and in 

 mild climates for its bloom. 



Erect and branching plants, sometimes viscid: Ivs. 

 small and crowded: fls. usually many, terminal or oppo- 

 site the Ivs., small; corolla long-tubular, dilated or 

 ventricose above, often contracted at the throat; 

 stamens 5, attached on the coroUa-tube; disk fleshy, 

 annular or lobed : caps, oblong, 2- 

 valved. — About 20 species, Bolivia, 

 Brazil to Patagonia. 



imbricata, Ruiz & Pav. Fig. 

 1471. Height 3-8 ft.: Ivs. ovate, 

 scale-Uke, imbricated: fls. sessile or 

 nearly so, white, with a short 

 reflexed limb, borne profusely. 

 Peru. B.R. 25:59. R.H. 1903, p. 

 291. G.C. III. 32: suppl. Sept. 

 27; 52:210. Gn. (50, p. 4,30; 72, p. 

 511. G.W. 2, p. 511.— This plant is 

 apparently httle grown under glass 

 in this country. It is a rather com- 

 mon shrub 

 I in S. Cahf., 

 ^ '■ where it 

 blooms at 

 different sea- 

 sons. In Eng- 

 land, it is 

 said to thrive 

 best near the 

 sea. Good 

 bushes produce 

 a wealth of well- 

 lasting bloom in 

 late spring. It 

 prop, without 

 difficulty from 

 potted cuttings 

 in Aug. 



L. H. B. 



FAGARA: .\'an//lor!/- 

 lum. 



FAGELU (after 

 Caspar Fagelius, plant 

 cultivator). Syn. Bohir- 

 safra, Kuntze. Legumir 

 nhs3e. One species, a fast- 

 growing, twining sub-shrub from 

 S. Afr., covered with clammy 

 hairs, and bearing all summer 

 axillary racemes of pea-like fls. 

 which are yellow, the keel 

 tipped violet; standard reflexed; 



keel obtuse, exceeding the wings; stamens diadelphous: 

 pod about 6-seeded, turgid. Cult, outdoors in S. Calif, 

 and abroad under glass. The plant is alUcd to Caja- 

 nus, but its seeds are strophioled, pod swollen, not 

 flattened, and the 2 upper calyx-lobes nearly distinct. 

 The Fagelia of Schwenke (1774) is Calceolaria. 



1472. 

 Fagopynun 

 esculentum. 



(XI) 



1471. Fabiana imbricata. 



(XH) 



77 



bituminosa, DC. Sts. sev- 

 eral feet long, woody at ba.se : 

 Ifts. 3, rhomb-ovate, pale and 

 glandular-dotted beneath, to 

 IJ^ in. long: fls. about J-^in. 

 long: pod 1 '-2 in. long: plant 

 strong-smelling. B. R. 261 

 (as Glycine, showing fls. also 

 veined with red). — Blooms 

 in winter in S. Cahf. 



L. H. B. 



FAGOPtRUM (beech 

 wheal, from the likeness of 

 the fruit to a beech-nut). 

 Polygondcese. Probably only 

 2 species, of Eu. and N. Asia. 

 Quick-growing annuals, with alternate deltoid or 

 hastate Ivs., small whitish fls. in racemes or panicles, 

 5-parted calyx, 8 stamens, 1-loculed ovary ripening 

 into a floury 3-angled achene. — Both species are grown 

 for the grain, from which flour is made; and in 

 horticulture sometimes used as a catch-crop or green- 

 crop in orchards and elsewhere for the good effect 

 on the land. 



esculentum, Moench (Polygonum Fagopyrum, Linn.). 

 Buckwheat (which .see). Fig. 1472. Lvs. large and 

 broad, long-petioled : fls. white, fragrant, in panicled or 

 corymbose racemes : achene or grain with regular angles. 



tataricum, Gaertn. (Polygonum tatdricum, Linn.). 

 India-Wheat. Ddckwheat. Fig. 1473. More slender: 

 lvs. smaller and hastate or arrow-shaped, shorter- 

 petioled: fls. greenish or yellowish, in small mostly 

 simple racemes from the If .-axils: achene with wavy or 

 notched angles, smaller than in buckwheat. — Useful 

 in short-season chmates and on poorer lands. The Fig. 

 1473 is made from Linnsus' original specimens of his 

 Polygonum tataricum, now deposited in the Linniean 

 herbarium, London. L H B. 



FAGUS (ancient Latin name). Fag&cese. Beech. 

 Ornamental trees, chiefly grown for their handsome 

 foliage, good habit and the conspicuous color of the 

 bark; also valuable timber trees. There are marked 

 horticultural forms. 



Deciduous: winter-buds conspicuous, elongated, 

 acute: lvs. alternate, distichous, dentate or nearly 

 entire, with caducous small stipules: fls. monoecious. 



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