floscular 
foliicolous 
tils, or both, are converted into 
petals ; flos’cular, flos’culous, flos- 
culo’sus (1) relating to florets or 
flowers, or presenting many 
florets ; (2) with tubular Aovete 
Flos‘cule, Flos’culum (Blair), Flos- 
culus, a little flower, a floret ; 
Sem'i - flos’cule a composite floret ; 
Floss, the down in certain Com- 
positae, as Thistle-down ; Flossifi- 
ca’tion, flowering, expansion of 
flowers, 
Plow’rish, Blair’s word for a disk- 
floret of Compositae ; half ~ the 
same for ligulate florets. 
Flow’er, defined under FLos ; ~ Bud, 
an unexpanded flower, as distinct 
from a leaf-bud ; ~ Head, a cluster 
of flowers, as the Capitulum or 
Head in Compositae ; Flow’erage, 
the state of being in flower; 
Flow’eret, a small flower, a floret ; 
Flow’eriness, abounding with 
flowers ; Flow’ering, the maturity 
of the floral organs, and expan- 
sion of their envelopes ; ~ Glume, 
the lower of the two organs which 
subtend the flower of Grasses (the 
upper being the palea) ; ~ Plants= 
PHANEROGAMS ; flow’erless, desti- 
tute of flowers ;~ Plants=CryPrTo- 
GAMS ; Flow’erlessness, absence of 
flowers ; flow’ery, abounding in 
flowers. 
Flowers of Tan= Aethalium septicum, 
Fr.; ~ of Wine, growth of Sac- 
charomyces Mycoderma, Reess. 
flvitant, jlwitans (Lat.), floating. 
flumina’lis, flumin’eus (flumen, a 
river), applied to plants which 
grow in running water. 
Fluores’cence (from Fluor-spar), the 
property of diminishing the re- 
frangibility of light ; ~ of Chlor‘o- 
phyll, the shifting of the spectrum 
by the colouring matter contained 
in chlorophyll. 
flu’vial, fluvia’lis, fluviat’ie (Crozier), 
flu'viatile, fluviat'ilis (Lat.), applied 
to plants growing in streams. 
Fly-wood, oakwood destroyed by 
Stereum (Tubeuf); Fly-traps, con- 
trivances by which insects are 
caught, as pitchers, tentacles of 
Drosera, ete. 
foemin’eus = FEMINEUS, female. 
foe’tidus (Lat., stinking), fetid, smel- 
ling strongly and disagreeably ; 
Foe’tor (Lat., a stench), the odour 
given off by flowers which thereby 
attract carrion flies, 
fo’/lded, in vernation when the two 
halves of a leaf are applied to one 
another; ~ Tis’sue, endoderm with 
suberified or liquified membrane, 
confined to a band on the lateral 
and transverse faces of the cells, 
without thickening (Van Tieghem). 
folia’ceous, -eus (folium, a leaf, + 
aceous), having the texture or 
shape of a leaf, as the branches of 
Xylophylla ; ~ Thal'’lus, a frondose 
thallus, flat and leaf-like, usually 
crisped and lobed, which spreads 
over the surface on which it grows, 
and can be detached without much 
injury ; Folia’ceae, frondose vascu- 
lar Cryptogams ; Fo’liage, the leafy 
covering, especially of trees; ~ 
Leaves, ordinary leaves, as distin- 
guished from those which have 
undergone metamorphoses as 
bracts, petals, etc. ; fo'liar, folia'ris, 
(1) leafy or leaf-like; (2) inserted 
on, or forming an appendix to a 
leaf, epiphyllous; ci7’rhus folia'ris 
= tendril; ~ Gap, a mesh in the 
vascular bundle cylinder from the 
margin of which vascular bundles 
pass into the frond in Ferns; ~ 
Spur, a dwarf shoot in a pine-tree, 
which bears a pair of leaves (Har- 
tig) ; ~ Trace, = LEar-TRACE ; the 
remains of the vascular bundle or 
bundles which supplied the leaf. 
fo'liate, folia’tus(Lat., leaved), clothed 
with leaves, as bi-foliate, two- 
leaved, etc. 
Folia'tion, Folia’tio (Lat.), vernation ; 
used by Grew for the act of leafing. 
Fo’liature (foliatura, foliage), Blair’s 
term for petals. 
folif’erous, foliifferous, -rus (foliwm, 
a leaf, fero, I bear), leaf-bearing ; 
foliiferae Gem’mae = leaf - buds ; 
foliic’olous (colo, I inhabit), grow- 
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