GLOSSARY AND INDBX. 



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Fasciculate: in small tufts. 



FasWjiate: close, parallel, and upright. 



Faux {\A. fauces) : the gorge or throat. 



Fcii-eohite, favosa : with deep jiits, like 

 honeycomb. 



Feather-vemcd : having veins all pro- 

 ceeding from a midrib, 155. 



Featherij : see plumose. 



Fe'cuta: starch, 54. 



Female flower : see Fertile flower. 



Fenestrate: pierced with one or more 

 holes, like windows. 



Ferrw/ineous or ferruginous : of the color 

 of iron-rust. 



Fertile: capable of producing fruit. 

 Stamens are also said to be fertile 

 when their anthers contain good 

 pollen. 



Fertile floicer : one having pistils, 

 261. - 



Fertilization, 300. 



Fibre, 41. 



Fibril : a delicate fibre-like .body ; the 

 root-hairs, 81. 



Fihrillifonn tissue, 48. 



Fibrillosi : bearing fibrils : diminutive 

 of fibrous. 



Fibrine, 198. 



Fibrous or fibrose : composed of slender 

 threads or fibres. 



Fibro-vascLilar tissue or system, 50. 



Fiddie-sliaped : obovate and contracted 

 on each side. 



Fig, 215, 475, and fig. 590-592. 



Filament : tlie stalk of an anther, 223, 

 281. Or any slender thread. 



Filamentous, or Jilamentose : composed 

 of threads or filaments. 



Filices (Ferns), 500. 



Filicoloijii : tlie part of Botany which 

 treats of Ferns. 



Filiform : shaped like a thread ; slender 

 and terete, 166. 



Filipe'ndiilous : hanging from a thread, 

 as the tuberous roots of Spiraea fill- 

 pen dula. 



Fimbriate : fringed ; bordered by slen- 

 der processes or appendages. 



Fimhrillate or fmbrilliferoiis : diminu- 

 tive of the last. 



Fingered: see Digitate. 



Fissiparous : propagating by division 

 into two portions. 



Fistular or Fistulose: hollow through 

 its length, as the leaves of Onion. 



Fldbellate, or flabe'lliform : fan-shaped ; 

 broadly wedge-shaped with the 

 summit rounded. 



FlaeourtiaceiE, 392. 



Flagellate : hcvaingjlagella, i. e. runners, 

 like those of the Strawberry. 



Flage'Uiform : long, taper, and supple, 



45* 



like the thong of a whip ; runner- 

 like. 



Flavescent : yellowish or pale yellow. 



7'7ai'o«s ; yellow. 



Flax, 402. 



Fleshj : succulent, or of the consistence 

 of flesh, 84. 



Fle'xuose, ovfexuous ; zigzag ; bent alter- 

 nately inwards and outwards. 



Floating : growing on the surface of 

 water. 



Floccose : bearing or clothed with locks 

 of soft hairs or wool. 



Flora (the goddess of flowers) : the ag- 

 gregate of the species of plants of a 

 country ; or a work systematically 

 describing them. 



Floral: belonging to the flower. 



Floral envelopes : flower-leaves, 222, 268 



Florescence: same as anthesis. 



Floret: a small flower, or a separate 

 blossom of a so-called compound 

 flower. 



I'loridcfE, 509. 



Florifcrous : flower-bearing. 



Fhscidous: composed of or bearing^os- 

 culi, i. e. florets ; or composed of 

 tubular flowers only. 



Flower, 70, 221. 



Flower-bud, 209, 224. 



Flowering, 204. 



Flowering Plants, 69, 369, 375. 



Flowerless Plants, 69, 330, 499. 



Fluitant: floating on water. 



Fliiiiiatile: belonging to flowing water. 



Fly-traps, 168. 



Foliaceous: leaf-like, i. e. thin, membra- 

 naceous and green ; or bearing 

 leaves. 



Foliar: belonging to leaves (folia). 



Foliation ; leafing out. 



Foliate : clothed with leaves ; or, with a 

 numeral prefix, denoting the num- 

 ber of leaves ; as, bifoliate, two- 

 leaved : trifoliate, three-leaved, &e. 



Fdliolate: consisting of leaflets {fo- 

 liola) ; as, bifoliate, a leaf having 

 two leaflets, or irifoliolate, having 

 three leaflets, &e. 



Ftiliose: bearing numerous leaves. 



Follicle: a simple pod opening down 

 one side ; 315, fig. 579. 



Follicular, of the nature of a follicle. 



Foramen : an aperture or orifice, 298. 



Foraminulose : pierced with small holes. 



Fdrcipate : forked like a pair of pincers. 



Forked: branching into two or more 

 divisions. 



Fornicate: arched over, bearing a 



Fornix, ]>\. fdrnices : little arched scales 

 in the throat of a corolla, as in 

 that of Hound's-tongue. 



