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from its vessel or its channel, 

 and infiltration into surrounding 

 tissues, as the blood after the 

 rupture of a vessel. 



extrorse, a., %ks-tr$rs' (L. extra, 

 on the outside ; orsus, beginning, 

 commencement), in bot., applied 

 to anthers in which the slit 

 through which the pollen escapes 

 is towards the outside of the 

 flower, and not, as usual, towards 

 the pistil ; turned outwards. 



exudation, n., Zksf-ud-a'-shun (L. 

 exsudo, or exudo, I sweat out 

 from ex, out of; sudo, I sweat), 

 the discharge of moisture or 

 juices from animal bodies or from 

 plants ; the abnormal escape of 

 the blood-plasma occurring in in- 

 flammation of certain tissues, as 

 the lungs. 



exutive, a., eTcS'Ut'>w (L. exutus, 

 drawn out or off), in bot. t applied 

 to seeds wanting the usual integu- 

 mentary covering. 



exuviae, n. plu., eTcs-uv'-i-e (L. 

 exuvice, that which is laid aside 

 or taken off from the body), the 

 cast off parts of animals or plants, 

 as skins, shells, etc. : exuviation, 

 n., ZTcs-uv'-i-d'-shun, the process 

 by which animals and plants 

 throw off their old coverings or 

 shells and assume new ones, as 

 serpents their skins, and Crust- 

 acea their shells. 



Fabaceaa, n. plu., fab-d'-s^e (L. 



fdba, a bean ; connected with 

 Sansc. bhac, Gr. phagein, to eat, 

 to devour), Lindley's Order of 

 the Pea and Bean tribe, now 

 called Leguminosse : fabaceous, 

 a., fdb'd-shus, of or like a 

 bean. 



facial, &.,fd f 'shi'al (L.facies, the 

 face), the parts of the face, as 

 opposed to the cranial parts of 

 the head. 



faeces, n. plu. , fes'ez (L. fax, dregs 

 or sediment, feeds, of sediment), 

 the excrement or contents of the 

 bowels ; sediment or settlings : 



faecal, a., fek'al, relating to ex- 

 crement. 



Fagopyrum, n.,fag'6-plr'um (Gr. 



fegos, L.fdgus, the beech-tree 

 from phdgo, I eat ; Gr. puros, 

 wheat), the genus of buckwheat 

 plants, so called from the seeds 

 being three-cornered like beech- 

 nuts, Ord. Polygonacese : Fago- 

 pyrum esculentum, te&ul-tntfum 

 (L. esculmtus, full of food from 

 esca, food), and F. tataricum, 

 tat-ar'ik'Um (probably, of or from 

 Tartary), species of buckwheat 

 whose seeds are used as food. 



Fagus, n., fdg'-us (L. fdyus, Gr. 

 fegos, the beech tree from Gr. 

 phdgo, I eat), a genus of hand- 

 some ornamental timber-trees, 

 Ord. Cupuliferae or Corylaceae, so 

 called as the nuts of the beech 

 tree were used in early times as 

 food: Fagus sylvatica, stlv-dt'* 

 ik-d (L. sylvdticus, living in the 

 woods from sylva, a wood), is 

 the common beech tree : F. 

 Forsteri (after Forster, a botan- 

 ist), the evergreen beech of S. 

 America : F. antarctica, dnt-drk'- 

 tik- a (new L. antarcticus, southern 

 from Gr. anti, opposite ; arlc- 

 tikos, northern), a species of beech 

 found in the Antarctic regions. 



fairy-rings, n. plu., fdr'-i-rings, 

 scorched-like circles, or circles of 

 greener grass, found frequently 

 in pasture-lands in Britain, pro- 

 duced by a peculiar mode in the 

 growth of several species of 

 Agarics. 



falcate, a., fdW-dt (L. falcaius, 

 scythe - shaped from falx, a 

 reaping-hook), in bot., bent or 

 shaped like a reaping-hook; 

 crescent-shaped : falciform, a., 

 fals'-ifdrm (L. forma, shape), in 

 same sense; shaped like a reap- 

 ing-hook. 



Fallopian tubes, faUop'4-an tubz 

 (after Fallopius, their discoverer), 

 hollow canals forming appendages 

 to the womb and ducts of the 



