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Falcate, scythe^haped; a flat body curved, its edges parallel. 



False Racemes, 78. 



Family, in botany same as Order, 177. 



Farina, meal or starchy matter, 136. 



Farinaceau>, mealy in texture. Farinose, covered with a mealy powder. 



Fasdate, banded; also applied to monstrous stems which grow flat. 



Fasdcle, a close cluster, 77. 



Fascicled, Fasciculated, growing in a bundle or tuft, as the leaves of- Larch, 68, and 



roots of Peony, 35. 

 Fastigiate, close, parallel, and upright, as the branches of Lombardy Poplar. 

 Faux (plural, yauce<), the throat of a calyx, corolla, &c., 89. 

 Faveolate, Favose, honeycombed; same as alveolate. 



Feather-veined, with veins of a leaf all springing from the sides of a midrib, 51. 

 Feaula or Fceouh,, starch, 136. 

 Female flower or plant, one bearing pistils only. 

 Fenestrate, pierced with one or more large holes, like windows. 

 Ferrugineous, or Ferrugiiums, resembling iron-rust; red-grayish, 

 Fertile, fruit-bearing, or capable of it; also said of anthers producing good pollen. 

 Fertilization, the process by which pollen causes the embryo to be formed, 114. 

 Fibre (woody), 133. Fibrous, containing much fibre, or composed of fibres. 

 Fibrillose, formed of small fibres, or FihrUloe. 

 Fihro-vascular bundle or tissue, formed of fibres and vessels. 

 Fiddle-shaped, obovate with a deep recess on each side. 

 Fidus, Latin suffix for cleft, as Bijid, twO-cleft. 



Filament, the stalk of a stamen, 14, 80, 101; also any slender thread-shaped body. 

 Filamentose, or Filamentous, bearing or formed of slender threads. 

 Filiform, thread-shaped; long, slender, and cylindrical. 

 Fimbriate, fringed; furnished with fringes (fimbrice). 

 Fimbrillate, Fimbrilliferous, bearing small jSTnAriiE, i. e. fiwJmllce. 

 Fiseiparoui, multiplying by division of one body into two. 

 Fisms, Latin for split or divided. 



Fistidar, or Fistulose, hollow and cylindrical, as the leaves of the Onion. 

 Flabellijform, or Flabellate, fan-shaped. 

 Flagellate, or Flagelliform, long, narrow, and flexible, like the thong of a whip; or 



like the runners (flagellts) of the Strawberry. 

 Flavescent, yellowish, or turning yellow. 

 Flamis, Latin for yellow. 

 Fleshy, composed of firm pulp or flesh. 



Flexuose, or Flexuous, bending in opposite directions, in a zigzag way. 

 Floating, swimming on the surface of water. 



Floccose, composed of or bearing tufts of woolly or long and soft hairs. 

 Flora (the goddess of flowers), the plants of a country or district, taken together, or 



a work systematically describing them, 9. 

 Floral Envelopes, or Flower-leaves, 79. 

 Floret, a diminutive flower, one of a mass or cluster. 

 (FtoriftMrarf, abundantly floriferous. 

 Florula, the flora of a small district. 

 Flos, floris, Latin for flower, 

 Flosculus, diminutive, same as floret. 



Flower, the whole organs of reproduction of Phasnogamous plants, 14, 72. 

 Flower-bud, an unopened flower. 

 Flowering Plants, 10, 156. Flowerless Plants, 10, 156. 

 Fly-trap leaves, 65. 



Fluitans, Latin for floating. Fluviatile, belonging to a river or stream. 

 Foliaceous, Belonging to, or of the texture or nature of, a leaf (folium). 

 Foliate, provided with leaves. Latin prefixes denote the number of leaves, as bifo- 



liate, trifoliate, &c. FoUose, leafy; abounding in leaves. 

 F'oliolate, relating, to or- bearing leaflets, (folipla) ; trifoliate, with three leaflets, &c. 



