GLOSSARY AX1) I XI) EX. 



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Fasciculate: in small tufts. 



Fasti /kite: close, parallel, and upright. 



Faux (pi. fauces) : the gorge or lliro.it. 



Fdveolate, fill ose : with deep pits, like 

 honeycomb. 



Feathcr-vc iud : having veins all pro- 

 ceeding from a midrib, 155. 



Feathery : see plumose. 



Fe'cula: starch, 54. 



Female flower : sec Fertile flower. 



Fene'shute: pierced with one or more 

 holes, like windows. 



Ferriu/ineous or /en uginous : of the color 

 of iron-rust 



Falde: capable of producing fruit. 

 Stamens arc also said to he fertile 

 when their anthers contain good 

 pollen. 



Fati/e flower: one having pistils, 



20 r. 



Fertilization, 300. 



Filne, 41. 



Fibril: a delicate fibrc-liko body; the 



loot-haiis, 81. 

 Fihidifonn tissue,, 48 

 Fduil.'os'.: healing fibrils : diminutive 



of fihious. 

 Fibrinc, 198. 

 Fibious or, fibrose: composed of slender 



threads or libics. 

 Fibro-vuscular tissue or system, 50. 

 Fiddle-shaped: obovatc and contracted 



on each side. 

 Fig, 215, 475, and fig. 590-592. 

 Filament: tlic stalk of an anther, 223, 



281. Or any slender thread. 

 Filamentous, or Jilmuentose : composed 



of tin cads or filaments. 

 Filiccs (Ferns), 500. 

 Fthco/oj'j : the part of Botany which 



treats of Feins. 

 Filiform: shaped like a thread ; slender 



' and terete, 1G6. 

 Filijie'iiclii/ous : hanging fiom a thread, 



as the tuberous roots of Spiraea fili- 



pcndula. 

 Fimbi iate : fringed ; bordered by slen- 

 der processes or appendages. 

 Fimbiillate or flinbrillifetous: diminu- 

 tive of the last. 

 Fingered: sec Digitate. 

 Fissiparoits : propagating by division 



into two portions. 

 Fistuhir or Fistidose: hollow through 



its length, as the leaves of Onion. 

 Fldbellate, or flabellifoi in: fan-shaped; 



bioadly wedge-shaped with the 



summit loundcd. 

 Flaeourtiaeea>, 392. 

 Flagellate: l>eaving flagella, i. e. runners, 



like those, of the Strawberry. 

 Flage'llform : long, taper, and supple, 

 45* 



like the thong of a whip ; runner- 

 like. 



F/aveseent : yellowish or pale yellow. 



Flaunts : vellow. 



Flax, 402" 



Flesh i/ : succulent, or of the consistence 

 of flesh, 84. 



Fle'xuose, or flexuous : zigzag ; bent alter- 

 nately inwards and OiUwaids. 



Floating: growing on the siufacc of 

 water. 



Floccose: bearing or clothed with locks 

 of soft hairs or wool. 



Floia (the goddess of flowers) : the ag- 

 gregate of the species of plants of a 

 country ; or a work systematically 

 describing them. 



F/oial: belonging to the flower. 



Floud invelopes: flower-leaves, 222, 2G8 



Fi'ou-scence: same as anthesis. 



Floret : a small flower, or a separate 

 blossom of a so-called compound 

 flower. 



Floridcas, 509. 



Floiifaous : flower-hearing. 



Fldsculous: composed of or bearing flos- 

 culi, i c. florets ; or composed of 

 tubular flowers only. 



Flower, 70, 221. 



Flower-bud, 209, 224. 



Flowering, 204. 



Flowering Plants, G9, 3C9, 375. 



Flowcrless Plants, G9, 330, 499. 



Fluitant: floating on water. 



F/iiciali/e: belonging to flowing water. 



Fly-traps, 168. 



Foliacfotts: leaf-like, i. c. thin, membra- 

 naceous and green ; or bearing 

 leaves. 



Foliar: belonging to leaves (folia). 



Foliation : leafing out 



Foliate : clothed with leaves ; or, with a 

 numeral prefix, denoting the num- 

 ber of leaves ; as, bifoliate, two- 

 leaved : trifoliate, throe-leaved, &c. 



Fdliolate: consisting of leaflets (fo- 

 liola) ; as, bifoliate, a leaf having 

 two leaflets, or trifoliolale, having 

 three leaflets, &c. 



Fdliose: bearing numerous leaves. 



Follicle: a simple pod opening down 

 one side ; 315, fig. 579. 



Follicular, of the nature of a follicle. 



Foramen : an aperture or orifice, 298. 



Foiaminulose: pierced with small holes. 



Fdreipate: forked like a pair of pinccis. 



Foiled: branching into two or more- 

 divisions 



Fornicate: arched over, bearing a 



Fornix, pi. fdmices: little arched scales 

 in the tin oat of a corolla, as in 

 that of lIoa:id's-tonguc. 



