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FLORALIS Gemma \_Jioi~\ regards the cori' 

 tents of the gemma ; containing a flower, oppo- 

 fed to foliarh. 



FLORIFERiE Gemmalfios, hfero, to bear] 

 producing flowers. 



FLOS, a flower. Flowers are the organs of 

 generation of plants together with their cover- 

 ing. They may be either termirMlcs, lateraks, 

 fparfiy fejjilcs, pedtinculati, unlcus, foUtarius, terni. 

 Sec. copioji, eret^i, cerni, nut antes, verticals, or 

 horizontales. The elTential parts of a flower are 

 the Anthcra and Stigma, v/hicli conftitute its ex- 

 iftence, with or without teguments. 



FLOSCULUS, a little flower ; one of the 

 diftinft flowers, or florets, which compofe a 

 Flos aggregatus, an aggregate flower, as in the 

 clafs Sytigenefta of the fexual fyftem of Linn3eus. 



FOLIAGES Ghndiila, when upon tlie 

 leaves : thefe are either in the ferratures, as in 

 the SalJx ; on the befis, as in the Amygdalus, 

 Cucuriita, Eltsocarpus, Impatiefjs, Padus, Opu- 

 lus ; on the back, as in the Urena, Tamar'iXy 

 Crotcn ; or on the fuperficies, as in the P'lngul- 

 cola, Drofcra, &c. 



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