534 



GLOSSAKY AND INDKX. 



Fdveate : pitted, having/buere or depres- 

 sions of the surface. 



Ftiveolate ; marked -with little pits or ae- 

 pressions (fove'olce). 



Fovillcc: minute particles in the fluid 

 contained in pollen, 286. 



Free : separate ; not united with dis- 

 similar parts, 2.'j0. 



Fringed: see Fimbriate. 



Frond: the^foliaijo or Ferns (500), 

 Liverworts (504), &c., 67. 



Frondescence : the act of leafing. 



Frondose : leafy, or more commonly it 

 now means frond-like, or producing 

 a frond instead of ordinary foliage, 

 504. 



Fructification : fruiting, or the fruit and 

 what attends it. 



Fntctijication, organs of: the stamens 

 and pistils. 



Fruit, 308. 



Fruit-dots, of Ferns, 501. 



Frumentaceous : producing starch, or re- 

 lating to corn {frinnentum). 



Fnistulose : consisting of small portions 

 or fragments. 



Frutescent : becoming shrubby. 



Fruticulose : very small and shnibby. 



Fniticose : shrubby ; relating to a 



Frulex : a shrub. 



Fucaccre, 509. 



Fugacious : falling off or perishing very 

 early, as the calyx of the Poppy, 

 and the corolla of Cistus ; 172. 



Fulcrate : belonging to or furnished with 

 fulcra (props), i. o. with append- 

 ages such as tendrils, prickles, stip- 

 ules, &c. 



Fidiginons, or fidiginose : sooty ; dark 

 and deep brown. 



Fulvous : tawny : orange-yellow mixed 

 with gray. 



Fumariacea^, 389. 



FundampnIaL organs, 70. 



Fungi, 507. 



Fungiform : mushroom-shaped. 



Fungill Iform : diminutive of the last. 



Fungose : sjtonpy in texture. 



Funiculus: the seed-stalk, 297, 321. 



Funnel-shaped, funnel-form : see Infun- 

 dibuliform, 277. 



Furcate : forked, the forks spreading. 



Furfuraceous : scurfy. 



Fun-owed: see Sulcate. 



Fuscous : grayisli-brown. 



Fusiform: spindle-shaped; 84, fig. 138. 



Fustic, 475. 



Galbanum, 427. 



Galbulus : a fleshy and closed strobile 

 imitating a berry, as a Juniper- 

 berry, 320. 



Galea: a helmet; an arched sepal or 

 petal, 278, flg. 458. 



Gdleate : having, or shaped like, a hel- 

 met. 



Galingale, 490. 



Galls, 477. 



Gamboge, 400. 



Guiuophiillous : com])osed of leaves 

 united by their edges, 275. 



Gamopdalous : composed of united pe- 

 tals, 249, 275. 



Gamose'palous : of united sepals, 249. 



Gelatinous coils in cells, 40. 



Geminate : in ])airs. 



Gemma : a bud or growing point. 



Gemmation : budding growth, 31. 



Ge'mmule: a young bud ; the plumule. 



Genera : jjlural o^ genus. 



General : the opposite of partial ; as the 



General involucre of a compound um- 

 bel, &c., 216. 



Generic: relating to the genus. 



Geniculate: bent abruptly like a knee. 



GentianaecDB, 456. 



Gcntianine (Gentian), 457. 



Genus, 358. 



Geographical Botany ; the study of 

 plants in respect to their geograph- 

 ical distribution. 



Geraniaceae, 403. 



Germ : the eye of a bud ; or any grow- 

 ing point ; or an embryo, 323. 



Germen : an old name for the ovary. 



Germinal vesicle, 306. 



Germination : growth of the embryo 

 from the seed, 71, 328. 



Gerontorjceous : belonging to the Old 

 World. 



Gesncriaceas, 44. 



Gibber: an enlargement, or gibbosity 

 of any sort, on one side of a calyx, 

 a fruit, &c. 



Gibherose or gibbous: swollen or en- 

 larc-cd on one side. 



Gills of Fungi, 500. 



Ginger, 490. 



Gin's^'ng, 428. 



Glabrous : smooth, i. o. destitute of hair- 

 iness. 



Glabrate : smoothed, or becoming near- 

 ly glabrous. 



Glndiate: sword-shaped. 



Glands : any secreting apparatus, 52. 

 The name is also given to any pro- 

 jection or appendage the nature 

 and function of which is not obvi- 

 ous, 264. Glans is also the classi- 

 cal name of an acorn and chestnut. 



Glandular, glanduliferous, glandulose : 

 bearing glands, or gland-like in 

 texture. 



Glandular hairs, 52. 



