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: small spiny point ; styles more or less con- 

 solidated, permanent on the four-celled 

 : capsular fruit. [M. T. MJ 



FENESTRA (adj. FENESTRATE). An 

 i opening through a membrane, like a win- 

 dow in a wall. 



FENNEL. Fceniculum vulgare. — , AZO- 

 REAN. Fceniculum dulce. — , GIANT. 

 Ferula. — , HOG'S, or SOW. Peucedanum 

 officinale. — , SWEET. The Finocchio,Fos- 

 niculum dulce. 



FEXNEL-FLOWER. Nigella. 



FENOPIL. (Fr.) Fcenicuhim. — , BA- 

 TARD. Anethum graveolens. — DE MER. 

 Crithmum maritimum. — DE PORC. Peu- 

 cedanum officinale. 



FENUGREEK. Trigonella Fcenum grce- 

 cum. 



FENP-GREC. (Fr.) Trigonella Fcenum 

 grmcum. 



: FENZLIA. A genus of tropical New 

 Holland shrubs, belonging to the Melasto- 

 j macece. They are covered by bran-like 

 scales, and have thick entire leaves, and 

 i rose-coloured flowers on short axillary 

 I stalks. The calyx has two bracts at the 

 j base, a globose tube, and a limb of five 

 acute, spreading segments; petals five; 

 ! stamens numerous, shorter than the petals, 

 : with globular anthers, whose two cells are 

 | separated by a thickened connective, and 

 which open by long clefts. The fruit is a 

 berry, crowned by the calyx-limb, one-cell- 

 j ed, one-seeded by abortion. [M. T. M.] 

 I The name Fenzlia dianthiflora is applied 

 i in gardens to a beautiful dwarf Calif ornian 

 annual belonging to the Polemoniacew, 

 which in cultivation forms a closely rami- 

 fied spreading tuft, bearing a profusion of 

 its delicate rosy-tinted flowers with a 

 yellow throat, surrounded by five dark- 

 coloured dots. These flowers have a tubu- 

 lose-campanulate deeply five-cleft calyx, 

 and a funnel-shaped corolla, with broad 

 spreading obovate dentate limb segments. 

 This plant is more correctly called Gilia 

 dianthoides. [T. MJ 



FER, FERPS. A Latin termination 

 signifying the carrying of something, as 

 florifer, the carrier of flowers. 



FERRPGINOPS. Light brown, with a 

 little mixture of red. 



FERDINANDA. A genus of yellow- 

 flowered Mexican bushes of the Composite 

 family, nearly allied to Heliopsis, from 

 which they are easily recognised by having 

 numerous small flower-heads arranged in 

 corymbs at the ends of the branches, in- 

 stead of single and large flower-heads. 

 The alternate or opposite leaves are rough ; 

 and the flower-heads have an involucre of 

 one to three series of narrow scales, the 

 outer row of florets being strap-shaped 

 and female, the inner tubular and perfect. 

 I The achenes are four-sided, each embraced 

 i by a chaffy scale, and seated on a conical 

 , receptacle; the pappus is entirely absent, 



or present in the outer florets in the form i 

 of two to five scales. [A. A. B.] 



FERDINANDEZIA. A genus compris- 

 ing ten species of epiphytal orchids from 

 tropical America. They differ more in 

 habit than character from Oncidium; and 

 have slender stems thickly covered with 

 overlapping triangular leaves, the edges, 

 instead of the flattened portion, pointing 

 upwards; the flowers are small, yellow, 

 and disposed in axillary racemes or panicles 

 from the axils of the upper leaves ; the 

 two pollen-masses are pear-shaped, with- 

 out a caudicle, and attached to a small 

 ovate gland. The species have much in 

 common. Lockhartia is another name for 

 the genus. [A. A. B.] 



FERDINANDPSA, or FERDINANDIA. 

 These names both refer to the same genus 

 of Cinchonacece; which consists of Brazilian 

 trees,with leathery leaves ; and the flowers 

 in panicles, with a funnel-shaped corolla, 

 whose limb is divided into four ovate 

 notched revolute segments, and four sta- 

 mens slightly protruding from the corolla. 

 The fruit is a two-celled capsule bursting 

 by two valves, which separate also from 

 the calyx, which is cleft lengthwise; the 

 seeds are winged. DM. T. M.] 



FER-A-CHEVAL. (Fr.) Uippocrepis uni- 

 siliquosa. 



FERN, BEECH. Polvpodmm Phegopteris. 

 — , BLADDER. Cystopteris. — , BRISTLE. 

 Trichomanes. — , BUCKLER. Lastrea. 

 — , CINNAMON. Osmunda cinnamomea. 

 — , CLIMBING. Lygodium. — , FEMALE. 

 Athyriwn Filix-foemina ; also Lastrea The- 

 ly pteris, and Pteris aquilina. — , FILM. Hy- 

 menophyllum. — , FLOWERING. Osmun- 

 da, and also Anemia. — , HARD. Blechnum 

 Spicant. — , HARE'S-FOOT. Davallia ca- 

 nadensis. — , HOLLY. Polystichum Lon- 

 chitis. — , LADY. Athyrium Filix-fwmina. 

 -,LIP. Cheilanthes. —, MAIDEN-HAIR. 

 Adiantum Capillus Veneris. — , MALE. 

 Lastrea Filix-mas. — , MARSH. Lastrea 

 Thelypteris. — , MOPNTAIN. Lastrea 

 montana. — , OAK. Polypodium Dryopte- 

 ris. — , OSTRICH. Struthiopteris. — , 

 PARSLEY. Allosorus crispus ; also some- 

 times applied to Athyrium Filix-fosmina 

 crispum. — , POD. Ceratopteris tlialic- 

 troides. — , RATTLESNAKE. Botrychium 

 virginicum. — , ROYAL. Osmunda rega- 

 lis. — , ROYAL of Calabar. Litobrochia 

 Currori. — , SCALE. Ceterach. —.SENSI- 

 TIVE. Onoclea sensibilis. — , SHIELD. 

 Aspidium. — , STONE. Allosorus crispus. 

 —,SV?$.PolypodiumPhegopteris.—,S,WETiiT. 

 Lastrea fragrans and montana. — , SWORD. 

 Xiphopteris. — , TARA. Pteris esculenta. 

 — , WALKING. Camptosorus rhizophyllus. 

 — , WALL. Polvpodmm vulgare. — , 

 WATER. Osmunda. —.WOOD. A name, 

 applied to the American Lastreas. 



FERN-BPSH, SWEET. An American 

 name for Comptonia asplenifolia. 



FERN-ROOT, TASMANIAN. The cau- 

 dex of Pteris esculenta. 



