326 HARDY FLOWERS. 



Fasciculate, when several similar parts are collected into a bundle and spring 



from the same spot. 

 feathery, like a feather in structure, sometimes used to express very gracefully 



divided leaves as those of the Ferulas. 

 Fibrous, having many threadlike parts. 

 Filament, the stalk usually found supporting an anther. 

 Filiform, like a thread, as the stamens of maize 

 Fistular, hollow like a pipe, as the fruiting stems of onions. 

 Flaccid, weak, flabby. 



Flexuose, zigzag, usually changing its direction at each joining. 

 Floccose, with little tufts like wool. 

 Florets, the small flowers of Composite plants. 

 Follicle, an inflated 1 -celled carpel, opening by a suture to which several seeds 



are attached. 



Forked, like a fork of two prongs. 

 Frond, the leaf-like part of Ferns. 



Fruit, the seed-vessel with its ripe contents and any external appendages. 

 Fruticose, shrubby. 



Fugacious, soon falling off, like the cap on the flower bud of Eschscholtzia. 

 Funnel-shaped, tubular below, but gradually enlarging upwards, like the flowers 



of Brugmansias. 

 Furcate, forked. 

 Fusiform, spindle-shaped ; thick tapering to each end, like the root of a long 



radish. 



Gibbous, swollen on one side, like the flower of Valerian. 

 Glabrous, without hairs or other clothing, as the Camellia leaf. 

 Gland, a wartlike cellular secreting organ usually raised above the surface, as 



on the leaves of many peaches. 

 Glandular, having glands. 



Glandular-hairy, having hairs tipped with glands. 

 Glandular-serrate, having short teeth tipped with glands. 

 Glaucous, green with a whitish-blue lustre, like Echeveria secunda. 

 Globose, round like a globe, like the heads of flowers of Echinops. 

 Glumes, the scales enclosing the spikelet of flowers in Grasses. 

 Habit, the port or aspect of a plant. 

 Hastate, enlarged at the base into two lobes directed nearly horizontally, as in 



leaf of sheep's sorrel, 

 Head, a close terminal collection of flowers surrounded by an involucre, as . ; n 



composite flowers. 



Helmet, the hooded upper part of some flowers, as in the monkshood. 

 Hdmet-shaped, arched and concave like a helmet. 

 Herbaceous, the parts of plants which are not woody ; also organs, or parts of 



them, of a green colour. 



Hermaphrodite, having both sexes in one bloom, as in most common plants. 

 Hispid, covered with stiff hairs, as in the Borage and like plants. 

 Hoary, with greyish-white down, like Cerastium incanum. 

 Hooded, flowers formed into a hood at the end, like the Aconites. 

 Hybrid, a cross between two' species. 



Imbricate, arranged over each other like the scales of a fir cone. 

 Jmpari-pinnate, pinnate, with an odd terminal leaflet, as the leaves of the French 



