fidus 
flagelliform 
-fidus, Latin suffix for cleft, as tri- 
Jidus, 3-cleft. 
Fig-insect, the fertilizing agent in 
caprification, Blastophaga. 
Fi'la (pl. of filum, a thread), adduct- 
or’ia, the abortive “pistillidia” 
of Mosses; ~ succulent’a, para- 
physes. 
Filament, Filament'um (filum, a 
thread) ; (1) the stalk of an anther, 
the thread-like stem; (2) any 
thread-like body; Filament’a os- 
tiola’ria, delicate colourless threads 
lining the perithecium round the 
epithecium of Verrucaria; fila- 
ment’ous, filament’ose, jfilamento’- 
sus, formed of filaments or fibres ; 
~ Fung’us, growth form from a 
hypha without union with the 
hyphae; ~ Myce’lium = FIBRous 
MyceLtium; ~ Spor’ophore, = 
simple sporophore; ~ Thal’lus= 
FRUTICOSE THALLUS ; Filar-plasma 
(whdoua, moulded), Strasburger’s 
term for KrnopLasm; fila’rious 
(Crozier) = FILAMENTOUS; fila’tus 
(Lat,) = VIRGATUS. 
Files, w series of Navicula-like frust- 
ules as in Micromega. 
fil'icoid (filix, a fern, el60s, like), fern- 
like ; Filicol’ogy (Adyos, discourse), 
= PTERIDOLOGY. 
fil/iform, jfiliform’is (filum, a thread, 
Jorma, shape), thread-shaped ; ~ 
Apparatus, the upper ends of the 
synergidae, which pierce through 
and are prolonged beyond the 
summit of the embryo sac; filipen- 
d’ulous, -lus (pendulus, hanging 
down), having tuberous swellings 
in the middle or end of filiform 
roots ; Filobacte’ria (+ BACTERIUM), 
thread-like bacteria ; filose, ending 
in a thread-like process (Crozier). 
Fim’bria (Lat., fringe), (1) a fringe ; 
(2) an elastic-toothed membrane 
beneath the operculum of mosses ; 
fim’briate, jimbria’tus, with the 
margin bordered by long slender 
processes ; fim’bricate = FIMBRIATE 
(Crozier) ; Fimbril’la, a diminutive 
fringe; fimbril’late, jimbrilla’tus, 
having fimbrillae ; fimbrilliferous, 
-rus, With many little fringes as 
the receptacle of the Compositae. 
fimeta’rius (jimetum, a dunghill), 
growing on or amongst dung. 
Finger-and-toe, a disease in Cruci- 
fers caused by Plasmodiophora 
Brassicae, Woron.;—Clubbing or 
Anbury. 
fing’ered, digitate. 
Firstling-Cell, from the Germ. Erst- 
lingzelle, the first of a new genera- 
tion from an auxospore in Diatoms. 
fis’sile, _fis'silis (Lat.), tending to 
split, or easily split; Fission, 
splitting; ~ Fun’gi = Schizomy- 
cetes ; Fissip’arism (pario, I bring 
forth), the act of multiplication 
among the lower forms by breaking 
up into living portions; fissip’arous, 
dividing into two or more divisions 
by splitting ; fis’sus (Lat., split), 
split or divided half-way. 
Fis'tula (Lat.), a pipe; ~spira’lis= 
TRacHEA ; fis’tular, fis’tulose, fistw- 
lo'sus, fis‘tulous, hollow throughout 
its length as the leaf and stem of 
an onion. 
Pixa’tion of COs, respiration of oxy- 
oe and retention of carbon diox- 
ide. 
flabel'late, flabella‘tus (flabellum, a 
fan), fan-shaped, dilated in a wedge- 
shaped, sometimes plaited ; flabel’li- 
form, flabelliform’is (forma, shape), 
shaped as a fan; flabelliner’ved 
(nervus, a nerve), radiate-veined. 
flac’cid, flac’cidus (Lat.), withered 
and limp, flabby. 
Flacherie (Fr.), a disease in silk- 
worm caused by Micrococcus Bom- 
bycis, Cohn. 
flag’ellate, flagella’tus (flagellum, 
a whip), provided with whip-like 
runners ; flagella’ris, having creep- 
ing sarmenta; flag’ellary, caused 
by flagella, as the motion of 
zoospores (Crozier) ; Flagel’lum, pl. 
Flagel’‘la (1) a runner or sarmen- 
tum, branchlets in Mosses ; (2) the 
whip-like process of the protoplasm 
of a swarmspore ; (3) similar organs 
in the cells of some Schizomycetes ; 
flagel'liform, flagelliform’is (forma, 
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