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Frondofus proUfer Jlos. A proliferous flower is 

 fftid to be frondofus when the proles are foUoJi, 

 leafy. 



FRONS, a leaf or branch of a tree : ufed 

 by LinnsEus to exprefs the peculiar kind of 

 leaves of palms and ferns ; Trwici fpecies ex ra- 

 nw coadunatus folio , i^ fespius fru£iificatione. 



FRUCTESCENTIA iFruHus, fruit] com- 

 prehends the precife time of the year when a 

 plant fcatters its ripe feeds. 



FRUCTIFICATIO \_frufius, fruit] as de* 

 fined by Linnsus, eji vegetahUium pars tempora- 

 ria, generatloni dicata^ antiquum terfninavs, novum 

 incipiens ; the temporary part of vegetables, ap • 

 propriated to generation, terminating the old 

 vegetable and beginning the new. It confifts 

 of feven diftinft parts, viz. Calyx^ Corolla, Sta- 

 mnat Pijiillum, Pericarpium, Semen, Receptacu- 

 lum. Fru5lificatio may be either fmplex, or com- 

 pofta ex flofcuUs, 



FRUCTIFLOR^ [Frudus, fruit, &/w, 

 a flower] The tenth clafs in Royen's fyfl:em : 

 it contains the Coronati of Linnsus's Methodus 

 Calycina. 



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