fructiparous 



fundamental 



any sporogenous structure or an 

 aggregate of them. 



fructip'arous (fructus, fruit, pario, 

 I bring forth) ; Fruc'tose, fruit- 

 sugar, or levulose ; it exists with 

 other sugars in fruits, honey, and 

 treacle ; Fruc'tus (Lat.), fruit, the 

 product resulting from fertilization. 



frugif erous (fruges, pi. offrux, fruits 

 of the earth, fero, I bear), pro- 

 ducing fruits or crops. 



Fruit, (1) strictly, the pericarp and its 

 seeds, the fertilized and developed 

 ovary ; (2) widely, the matured 

 pericarp and its contents, with any 

 external part which is an integral 

 portion of it ; <-' Dots, the sori of 

 Ferns ; ~ Galls, diseased growth 

 caused by Ustilago Treubii, Holms ; 

 ~ Stalk, (1) peduncle ; (2) the seta 

 of Mosses ; <~ Su'gar, = levulose ; 

 ~ Walls, (or <- Coats) = pericarp ; 

 Spu'rious ~ = PSEUDOCARP. 



frumenta'ceous, frumenta'ceus (Lat., 

 of corn); fnunenta'rious, frumen- 

 ta'rius (Lat.), (1) pertaining to 

 grain ; (2) producing sufficient 

 starch to warrant culture; Fru- 

 men'tum (Lat., grain), produce of 

 corn-lands ; grain or cereals. 



frustra'neous (frustra, useless), relat- 

 ing to the Linnean order Frustra- 

 nea, Compositae with the disk 

 flowers hermaphrodite, and those 

 of the ray neuter or imperfect. 



Frus'tule, Frus'tula (frustulum, a 

 small piece), a Diatom cell, consist- 

 ing of valves, girdle and con- 

 tents.; Frus'tilla, an obsolete 

 synonym ; frus'tulose, consisting of 

 small fragments. 



Fru'tex (Lat.), a shrub, a woody 

 plant destitute of a trunk ; frut- 

 es'cent, frutes'cens, becoming 

 shrubby ; fru'ticant, fru'ticans, 

 growing into a shrub-like plant ; 

 fru'ticose, frutico'sus, fru'ticous, 

 shrubby ; ^ Thal'lus, a Lichen 

 having a shrub-like thallus ; fruti- 

 c'ulose, somewhat shrubby ; Fruti- 

 c'ulus (Lat)., a small shrub. 



Fru'tose = FRUCTOSE, Fruit-sugar. 



fu'coid (fu'cus, from 00/cos, seaweed, 



elSos, like),fucoi'dal, resembling sea- 

 weed ; Fu'cosan, Hanstein's name 

 for a granular substance found in 

 the assimilating tissue of Fucoi- 

 deae, the Phaeophyceae-starch of 

 Schmitz ; Fu'cose, is probably a 

 partial inversion of it ; Fuco- 

 xan'thine (j-avdds, yellow), Sorby's 

 name for the colouring matter of 

 the olive-green seaweeds. 



fuga'cious (fugax, fleeting), soon 

 perishing. 



fuTciens (/ulcio, I support), support- 

 ing, used of an organ above another. 



FuTcra (pi. of fulcrum, a prop), the 

 appendages of the leaves, as 

 prickles, tendrils, stipules, etc.; 

 fulcra'ceus, of or belonging to the 

 fulcra ; fill' crate, fulcra'tus, having 

 fulcra. 



fuligln'eus (Lat., sooty), fulig'inous, 

 fulig'inose, fuligino'sus, sooty, or 

 soot-coloured. 



fulmin'eus (fulmen, lightning), ful- 

 vous, almost brown ; used of a 

 species of Cortinarius by Fries. 



full, used of a double-flower, the 

 stamens and pistils being trans- 

 formed into petals. 



fulvel'lus, fulves'cens, furvldus (Lat)., 

 ful'vid (Crozier), the diminutive of 

 the next; ful'vous, ful'vus (Lat)., 

 yellow, tawny. 



fu'meus (Lat., full of smoke), smoky, 

 or smoke-coloured ; fu'midus (Lat. ), 

 slightly smoke-coloured ; funri- 

 ga'tus (Lat.), as though smoked, 

 fumed ; fu'mose,/wmo'sws, fu'mous, 

 smoke -grey. 



funa'lis (Lat., of a rope) = FUNILI- 

 FORM. 



fuma'rioid, like the genus Fumaria. 



Func'tion (functio, performance), the 

 peculiar action caused by certain 

 stimuli ; func'tional Metab'olism, 

 the kinetic effects of certain chemi- 

 cal changes in the plant. 



fundamen'tal (fundamentum, ground- 

 work), basic ; <~ Cells, parenchyma; 

 ^ Or'gans, the nutritive organs es- 

 sential to plant existence ; ~ Spi'ral 

 = genetic spiral ; <~ Sys'tem = cell- 

 ular system ; ^ Tis'sue, tissue not 



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