Flagon-shaped 
Flos 
shape), (1) resembling a runner, or 
(2) lash-like, as the cilia of zoo- 
spores. 
Flag’on-shaped (Loudon), used for 
flask-shaped. 
Flake, a nectariferous gland; fla’ky, 
lamelliform. 
flame - coloured, jflam'meus (Lat.), 
fiery red. 
Plank-curv‘ature, unequal growth of 
climbers, Germ. ‘‘ Flanken-Kriim- 
mung”; Flanks, the lateral sur- 
faces of a bilateral body. 
Plask, the utricle of Carex; flask- 
shaped, having the form of a 
Florence flask, somewhat globular, 
with a drawn out neck. 
Flats, proposed equivalent for the 
German “‘ Etagenbildung.” 
Flat’tening (1) the fasciation of a 
stem; (2) the production of a 
cladodium. 
Flave'do (Lat.), yellowness, a disease 
in which the green parts have be- 
come yellow. 
flaves’cent, flaves’cens (Lat.), yellow- 
ish, becoming yellow; fla’vicans, 
fla’vidus (Lat.), somewhat yellow ; 
fla’vo-vi'rens (Lat.), yellowish 
green ; fla’vous, fla’vus, nearly pure 
yellow, a bright clear hue. 
Flee’ciness, villosity. 
Flesh, the soft parts, as the flesh of 
apples or pears; flesh’y, succu- 
lent. 
flexed (flewus, bent), used of Diatoms 
which appear as though bent; 
flex'ible, flea’ilis, fleaib'ilis, capable 
of being bent, but elastic enough 
to be able to resume its original 
figure; flex’uose, fleauo’sus, flex’- 
uous, bent alternately in opposite 
directions, zigzag; Flex’ure, the 
“bend” of Diatoms. 
float‘ing, borne on the surface of 
water. 
Floe’ci, pl. of Floc’cus (Lat., a lock of 
wool), locks of soft hair or wool ; 
floc’cose, flocco’sus, bearing flocci, 
~ Myce’lium, = FiBrous MyceLium; 
floc’culent, flocculent’us, diminutive 
of FLOCOCOSE, 
Flo’ra (Lat., goddess of flowers), (1) 
the aggregate plants of a country 
or district, (2) a work which con- 
tains an enumeration of them; 
Flo’rae horolo’gium, a floral clock, 
certain plants arranged in the 
order of the hours of opening or 
closing ; flo’ral, flora’lis, belong to 
flowers ; ~ Di’agram, a drawing to 
show the relative position and 
number of the constituent parts ; 
~ En’velopes, the perianth leaves, 
calyx and corolla; ~ Glume, the 
lower glume of the flower in 
grasses; flowering glume (Beal); 
~ Leaf = Bract ;_ Flores’cence, 
Florescen’tia, anthesis, the period 
of flowering ; Flo’ret, a small flower, 
one of a cluster, as in Compositae ; 
floribun’dus (abundus, = produc- 
tion of present activity), abound- 
ing in flowers; Floricul’ture (cul- 
tura, cultivation), cultivation of 
flowers, flower gardening ; Plor‘ie, 
Grew’s word for perianth. 
flo’rifer (Lat.), floriferous, flower- 
bearing ; florif‘erae Gem’mae, flower 
buds; Florifica’tion, the act or 
time of flowering. 
flor’iform (los, floris, a flower ; 
Jorma, shape), shaped like a 
flower ; Flo’rilege (Jego, I gather), 
a treatise on flowers; florip’arous 
-us (pario, I bring forth), (1) pro- 
ducing flowers, (2) 4 monstrosity 
producing other flowers instead 
of fruit; Flo’rist, (1) a cultivator 
of flowers, especially those vari- 
able forms known as florist’s 
flowers, (2) a writer of a Flora, 
(3) in foreign usage ‘ Florist” 
means a local botanist; Flo’rula, 
(1) a small flora, (2) the botanic 
account of a small district ; flo’ru- 
lent, flowery; flo’rus, in composition 
means flowered, as uni-florus, one- 
flowered ; Flos (Lat.), an assem- 
blage of the organs essential for 
fertilization, as stamens and pistils, 
with some protecting envelope ;~ 
A’quae, floating Algae, as Rivularia 
fluitans, Cohn ; ~ compos‘itus t= 
CarirvLuM ; ~ ple’nus, a double 
flower, where the stamens or pis- 
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