216 GLOSSARY. 



Fl&uose, or Fle'xuous: bending gently in opposite directions, in a zigzag way. 



Floating: swimming on the surface of water. 



Fldccose : composed, or bearing tufts, of woolly or long and soft hairs. 



Flora (the goddess of flowers): the plants of a country or district, taken 



together, or a work systematically describing them ; p. 3. 

 Floral: relating to the blossom 



Floral Erwelopes : the leaves of the flower ; p. 85, 99. 

 Floret : a diminutive flower ; one of the flowers of a head (or of the so-called 



compound flower) of Composite, p. 106. 



Flower : the whole organs of reproduction of Phaenogamous plants ; p. 84. 

 Flower-bud: an unopened flower. 



Flowering Plants, p. 177. Floiverless Plants, p. 172, 177. 

 Folidceous : belonging to, or of the texture or nature of, a leaf (folium). 

 Fdfiose : leafy ; abounding in leaves. 

 Foliolate: relating to or bearing leaflets (foliold). 



Follicle: a simple pod, opening down the inner suture ; p. 131, Ijg. 302. 

 Follicular ; resembling or belonging to a follicle. 

 Food of Plants, p. 160. 



Foramen: a hole or orifice, as that of the ovule ; p. 122. 

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

 Fornicate: over-arched, or arching over. 

 Fo'veate: deeply pitted. Foveolate: diminutive of foveate. 

 Free: not united with any other parts of a different sort ; p. 103. 

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

 Frond : what answers to leaves in Ferns ; the stem and leaves fused into one 



body, as in Duckweed and many Liverworts, &c. 

 Frondescence : the bursting into leaf. 



Frdndose : frond-bearing ; like a frond : or sometimes used for leafy. 

 Fructification: the state of fruiting. Organs of, p. 76. 

 Fruit: the matured ovary and all it contains or is connected with; p. 126. 

 Frute'scent: somewhat shrubby; becoming a shrub (frutex). 

 Fruticulose: like a small shrub. Fruticose: shrubby; p. 36. 

 Fugacious : soon falling off or perishing. 

 Fulvous : tawny ; dull yellow with gray. 

 Funiculus: the stalk of a seed or ovule; p. 122. 

 Funnel-form, or Funnel-shaped: expanding gradually upwards, like a funne 



or tunnel ; p. 102. 

 Furcate: forked. 



Furfurdceons : covered with bran-like fine scurf. 

 Furrowed: marked by longitudinal channels or grooves. 

 Fuscous: deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform : spindle-shaped ; p. 32. 



Gdleale: shaped like a helmet (galea) ; as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 



fig. 185, and the upper lip of the corolla of Dead-Nettie, fig. 209. 

 Gamope'talous : of united petals ; same as monopetatons, and a better word ; p. 102. 

 Gamophyllous : formed of united leaves. Gamosepalous : formed of united sepals. 

 Gelatine, p. 165. 



