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Floating : swimming on the surface of water. 



Ftoccose : composed, or bearing tufts, of wooly 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. 

 Floral : relating to the blossom. 

 Floral Envelopes : the leaves of the flower. 

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



so-called compound flower) of Composite. 



Flower : the whole organs of reproduction of Phaenogamous plants. 

 Flower-bud : an unopened flower. 



Foliaceous: belonging to, or of the texture or nature of a leaf {folium}. 

 Foliose : leafy ; abounding in leaves. 

 Foliolate : relating to or bearing leaflets (foliola). 

 Follicle : a simple pod, opening down the inner suture. 

 Follicular : resembling or belonging to a follicle. 

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



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

 Fornicate : over-arched or arching over. 

 Foveate : deeply pitted. Foveolate : diminutive of foveate. 

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

 Fringed : the margin beset with slender appendages, bristles, etc. 

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



one body, as in Duckweed and many Liverworts, etc. 

 Frondescence : the bursting into leaf. 



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

 Fructification : the state of fruiting. 



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

 Frutescent : somewhat shrubby ; becoming a shrub (frutex}. 

 Fruiticulose : like a small shrub. Fruiticose ; shrubby. 

 Fugacious : soon falling off or perishing. 

 Fulvous : tawny; dull yellow with gray. 

 Funiculus : the stalk of a seed or ovule. 

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



funnel or tunnel. 

 Furcate: forked. 



Furfuraceous : covered with bran-like fine scurf. 

 Furrowed : marked by longitudinal channels or grooves. 

 Fuscous: deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform : spindle-shaped. 



Galeate : shaped like a helmet (galea). 



Gamopetalous : of united petals; same as monopetalous, and a better 



word. 

 Gamophyllous : formed of united leaves. Gamosepalous : formed of 



united sepals. 



