GLOSSARY. xi 
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FapiInG (marcescens), withering, not falling off until the part which bears 
it is perfected, but withering long before that time. 
Farcare (falcatus), plane and curyed, with parallel edges like the blade of 
areaper’s sickle. 
Fan-sHaPep (/flabelliformis), plaited, like the rays of a fan. 
Farinaceous, (farina meal), formed of meal-like powder, as the albumen 
of wheat. . 
FAscicLeD (/fusciculus, a bundle), when several similar things proceed from 
a@ common point as the leaves of the Larch. 
Fastre@1ate (/asligiatus), when all the parts are nearly parallel and pointing 
upwards, as the branches of many trees. 
Faux, the throat or orifice of a moropetalous corolla. 
Favosus, honey-combed, excavated in the manner of a honey-comb, as the 
receptacle of some of the compound flowers, &c. 
FEATHERY (plumosus), long hairs or bristles, which are themselves hairy, 
as the awn of stipa pennata, the pappus of various compound 
flowers, &e. 
FERRUGINEUS, rusty, a brownish red colour. 
FIBRovs, composed of numerous fibres. 
FIDDLE-SHAPED, (panduratus, panduriformis), obovate, with a deep recess 
or sinus on each side. 
FILAMENT, (jilum, a thread), that part which supports the anther. 
FILirorMis, thread-shaped, slender, like a thread. 
Fimpriatvs, fringed, long filiform processes on the margin. 
FINGERED. See digitatus. 
Fissus, split, divided nearly to the base into a determinate number of 
segments. 
Fistutosvs, fistulous, a cylindrical tube, closed at one end, as the leaves of 
some Alliums. 
FLABELLIFORMIS, fan-shaped. 
FLAGELLIFORM1s, whip-shaped, long, tape-like, as the thong of a whip. 
FLAVESCENS, pale yellow. 
FLEsHyY (carnosus), firm, juicy, easily cut. 
Fiexvovs, haying a gently bending direction inwards and outwards. 
Froatine (fluitans), floating upon the surface of water. 
FroccosE (floccosus), covered with dense hairs like tufts of wool. 
Frorets, the small flowers forming the head of compound flowers, those of 
the disk or middle of the head are often of a different form 
from those of the ray or circumference. 
FLoweEr is a terminal head, enclosing the organs of reproduction. 
Friuirans. See floating. 
Fotraczovts, leaf-like, having the texture and pee of a leaf. 
FoLiuM BI-PINNATUM, ? when the leaflets of compound leaves are sub- 
ener divided into other leaflets. 
FOLLICULE DOUBLE (conceptaculum), a two celled, many seeded, superior, 
fruit separating into two portions, the seeds of which do not 
adhere to marginal placente, as in the folliculus, to which 
this closely approaches, but are separate from their placente, 
and lie loose in the cuyity of each cell. 
