216 GLOSSAKT, 



Tldxwoh, OT Fl&uous: bending gently in opposite directions, in a zigzag way. ' 



Floating: swimming on tlie surface of water. 



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



Flora (the goddess of flowers): the plants of a country or district, talten 



together, or a woric systematically describing them ; p. 3. 

 Floral ; relating to the blossom. 

 I'loral Envelopes : the leaves of the flower ; p. 85, 99. 

 Floret: a diminutive flower; one of the flowers of ahead (or of the so-called 



compound flower) of Compositae, p. 106. 

 Flower : the whole organs of reproduction of Phaenogamons plants ; p. 84. 

 Flower-bud: an unopened flower. 



Flowering Plants, p. 177. Fhwcrless Plants, p. 172, 177. 

 FoUdceous: belonging to, or of the texture or nature of, a leaf (Jblium). 

 Fdliose : leafy ; abounding in leaves. 

 Fdliolate: relating to or bearing leaflets {foliola). 



Follicle: a simple pod, opening down the inner suture ; p. 131, fig. 302. 

 Follicular : resembling or belonging to a follicle. 

 Food of Plants, p. 160. 



Foramen : a hole or orifice, as that of the ovule ; p. 122. 

 Fornix : little arched scales in the throat of some corollas, as of Comfrey. 

 Fornicate: ovor-arched, or arching over. 

 Fdoeaie: deeply pitted. Fove'olate: diminutive of ybBcaie. 

 Free: not united with any other parts of a different sort ; p. 103. 

 Fringed : the margin beset with slender appendages, bristles, &c. 

 Frond: what answers to leaves in Ferns ; the stem and leaves fused into one 



body, as in Ducltweed and many Liverworts, &c. 

 Frondescence : tlie bursting into leaf. 



Frdndose : frond-bearing ; lilie a frond : or sometimes used for leafy. 

 Fructification: the state of fruiting. Organs of, p. 76. 

 Fruit: the matured ovary and all it contains br is connected with; p. 126. 

 Frut€scent: somewhat sln-ubby ; becoming a slirub (/I'iifei:). 

 Fruticulose: lilse a small shrub. Fnilicose: shrubby; p. 36. 

 Fugacious : soon falling off or perishing. 

 Fulvous : tawny ; dull yellow with gray. 

 Funiculus: the stalli of a seed or ovule; p. 122. 

 Funnel-form, or Funnel-shaped: expanding gradually upwards, like a funnel 



or tunnel; p. 102. 

 Furcate: forked. 



Furfurdceous : covered with bran-like fine scurf. 

 Furrowed: marked by longitudinal channels or grooves. 

 Fuscous: deep gray-brown. 

 Fusiform : spindle-shaped ; p. 32. 



Gdleale: shaped like ii helmet [galea) ; as the upper sepal of the Monkshood, 



flg. 185, and the upper lip of tlie corolla of Dead-Nettie, fig. 209. 

 Gamopetnlous: of united petals ; same as monopetalous, and a better word ; p. 102. 

 Gamophyllous : formed of united leavos. Ganws^palous : formed of united sopale. 

 GeMtte, p. 165. 



