F I 



tube of the Corolla ; occurring frequently in the 



clafs Didynarnia of LInnseus. 



FEivlINA Planta, female plant ; producing 

 on the fame root female flowers only. 



Femimus Jlos^ -^Todncrngjiigmata^ hut no r.n- 

 tketa. 



FIBROSA Radix [a fihrn, a fibre] a fibrous 

 root ufed by former botanifts to fignify that kind 

 of root which not exceeding in dimeniion the ba- 

 fis of its ftem, defcends perpendicularly in one 

 ftraight fibre, as in Paji'inaca^ Raphanus, &c. : 

 but 1-innseus applies it to thofe roots only 

 which confift entirely of fmall fibres, or Radi- 

 cula. 



FILAMENTOSA Radix {Fllwn^ a thread] 

 a rpecies of the Fihrofa, as in grafs. Hill. 



FILAMENTUM [a Filum, a thread] that 

 thread-like part of the Stamen, which fupports 

 the Anthera, and conne£ls it with the Receptacu- 

 lum. 



• FILICES [sifilum, a thread, qu. filatim incifa] 

 Ferns ; one of the feven tribes or families of 

 the vegetable kingdom, according to Linnaeus, 

 by w|icm it is thus characlerized ; having their 



fruclification 



