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Fibrillose, furnished with little strings or fibres. 



Fibrous, composed of fibres, or furnished with fibres. 



Filament, the thread-shaped part of a stamen which supports the anther. 



Filiform, thread-shaped ; as the styles of many plants. 



Fimbriate, fringed. 



' \ hollow, like a pipe or reed ; as the stem of Hemlock, Onion. 

 Fistulous, 7 



Flaccid, feeble, weak. 



Flagellce, runners without leaves. 



Flat, plane, even. 



Flexuous, having a bent or undulatory direction, zigzag. 



Floccose, covered with little tufts like wool. 



Floral, of or belonging to the flower. 



Floral envelopes, the calyx and corolla which surround and protect the 

 stamens and pistils of a flower. 



Floral leaves. See Bracteee. 



Florets, little flowers; chiefly applied to syngenesious flowers and those of 

 grasses. 



Floriferous, bearing flowers. 



Flosculous, applied to compound flowers, consisting of many tubular florets. 



Foliaceous, having the form or appearance of leaves. 



Follicle, a simple, one-celled, one-valved seed-vessel, opening by a suture 

 along its face ; as in Bearsfoot, Black Hellebore, Peony, &c. 



Footstalks, the stalks or petioles of leaves. 



Fornicate, arched. 



Free, distinct, not connected together ; the germen or fruit is said to be 

 free when it neither adheres to the corolla nor calyx. 



Frond, the leaf of ferns and palms. 



Fructification, all those parts tending to the production of or constituting 

 the fruit. The bractere, calyx, corolla, stamens, pistil, and pericarp are 

 called organs of fructification or reproduction, as distinguished from 

 the leaves, root, &c, which are organs of vegetation. 



Frutcscent, shrubby. 



Fugacious, quickly perishing. 



Funicle, the little stalk by which the seed is attached to the placenta. 



Funnel-shaped, see Infundibuliform. 



Furcate, forked. 



Furrowed, having longitudinal channels or depressions; as the stem of 

 Meadow-sweet and several Umbelliferae. 



Fuscous, blackish brown. 



Fusiform, shaped like an ancient spindle ; as the root of Carrot, Dande- 

 lion, &c. 



G. 



Galeate, helmet-shaped, as the upper lip of the corolla in some plants. 



