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stigma. The capsule is woody, oblong, 

 obtuse, five-valved, the exterior thickly- 

 covered with sharp-pointed tubercles. They 

 are lofty trees, having alternate pinnate 

 leaves ; found in New South Wales and 

 the Moluccas. The natives of these islands 

 use the rough tuberculated fruit as rasps 

 in preparing roots &c. for food. [R. H.] 



FLIX-WEED. Sisymbrium Sophia. 



FLOCCI. Woolly threads, found mixed 

 with sporules in fungals ; also any wool- 

 like hairs. 



FLOCCOSE. Covered with close woolly 

 hairs, which fall away in little tufts. 



FLORAL. Of or belonging to the 

 flower. — ENVELOPES. The calyx and 

 corolla, one or both. 



FLOR DE AROMA. Acacia Farnesiana. 

 — DE ISABEL. Barkeria spectabilis. — 

 DE JESUS. Lcelia acuminata. — DE 

 MAYO. Lalia majalis. 



FLORESTINA. A genus of Mexican 

 composite herbaceous plants, with the ha- 

 bit of Stevia, to which they were formerly 

 referred. They are covered with small 

 appressed white hairs, and have entire or 

 pedately divided leaves, and flowers borne 

 in loose corymbs surrounded by an invo- 

 lucre of eight short bracts. The corollas 

 have all a short tube, and a whitish or 

 purple limb divided into five segments. 

 The achenes are somewhat four-cornered, 

 surmounted by a pappus of eight or twelve 

 membranous scales. [M. T. M.J 



FLORETS. When many small flowers 

 are collected in clusters or heads, each 

 flower is called a floret. The florets of the 

 disk are those which occupy the centre of 

 the head of a composite; while florets of 

 the ray occupy the circumference. 



FLORIDE^E. A name given to the rose- 

 spored Algce, in consequence of many of 

 them exhibiting the rosy tints of flowers. 

 They are now more generally known as 

 Rhodosperms. [M. J. B.J 



FLORIFER, Flower-bearing. 



FLORIPAROUS. Producing flowers ; 

 also a monstrosity consisting in the pro- 

 duction of other flowers instead of fruit. 



FLORIPONDIO. Datura sanguinea. 



FLORKEA. A North American annual 

 herb, referred to the limnantheous division 

 of Tropceolacece. It is a marsh plant, with 

 slender decumbent stems, and alternate 

 pinnately-parted leaves, bearing solitary 

 small white flowers in their axils. It is 

 distinguished from Limnanthes chiefly by 

 its having trimerous instead of pentame- 

 rous flowers. [T. M.J 



FLORUS. In composition = flowered : 

 thus uniflorus is one-flowered ; biflorus, 

 two-flowered ; triflorus, three-flowered ; 

 multiflorus, many-flowered, &c. 



FLOS. A flower. — COMPOSITUS. An 

 old name for the capitulum. 



FLOS ADONIS. Adonis autumnalis. — 

 AERIS. Aerides Arachnites. — CARDI- 

 NALIS. Quamoclit vulgaris. — CUCULI. 

 Cardamine pratensis ; also Lychnis Flos- 

 cuculi. — GLOBOSUS. Gomphrena glo- 

 bosa. — JOVIS. Lychnis Flos Jovis. — 

 MARTINI. Alstrbmeria Flos Martini. — 

 PASSIONIS. Passiflora cwrulea and others. 

 — SOLIS. Helianthus annuus ; also Heli- 

 anthemum vulgare. — SUSANNiE. Pla- 

 tanthera Susannce. — TRINITATIS. 

 Viola tricolor. 



FLOSCOPA. A genus of Commelynacem 

 more -usually known under the name of 

 Dithyrocarpus, and distinguished by having 

 nearly regular flowers, with six stamens, 

 all fertile, with parallel anther-cells ; and 

 a two-celled ovary and capsule, with one 

 ovule and seed in each cell. There are but 

 very few species, natives of the tropical 

 regions both of the new and the old world. 

 The most common species, F. paniculata, is 

 abundant in Asia, and is also found in 

 South Africa and Brazil. It is a herb of 

 two or three feet in height, with acuminate 

 leaves, and a dense hirsute terminal panicle 

 of small blue flowers. 



FLOSCTJLI (adj. FLOSCULOSE). The 

 same as Florets. 



FLOTOVTA. A genus of spiny S. Ame- 

 rican bushes belonging to the Compositce, 

 and nearly related to Barnadesia, from 

 which it differs in its regularly five-parted, 

 not two-lipped corollas. The numerous 

 florets of the flower-heads, and the insertion 

 of the stamens on the middle of the corolla 

 tube, are the characters which separate 

 the genus from its other allies. Upwards 

 of twenty species are known, the greater 

 portion found in Brazil, a few in the Peru- 

 vian Andes, and one or two in Chili. For 

 the most part they are bushes of four to 

 six feet, with alternate leaves, accompanied 

 by two straight slender spines. The pink 

 flower-heads in some are solitary at the 

 ends of the branches, but more commonly 

 numerous and small ; the silky achenes are 

 crowned with a pappus of one series of 

 beautiful feathery awns. F. argentea, a 

 pretty Andean species, is by some referred 

 to Dasyphyllum. [A. A. B.J 



FLOURENSIA. A genus of resiniferous 

 composite shrubs found in New Mexico 

 and Chili, and nearly allied to Helianthus, 

 differing chiefly in the tongue-likebranches 

 of the style, which are obtuse and not 

 tipped with an awl-shaped appendage. 

 The leaves are usually covered with a 

 gummy exudation. The yellow rayed flow- 

 er-heads are usually large and solitary or 

 two to three together at the ends of the 

 twigs. The" most handsome species is F. 

 thurifera, which grows to a bush of four 

 to six feet in Chili, and has its twigs 

 as well as its broadly lance-shaped leaves 

 covered with a resinous substance, which 

 is collected and burnt as incense in the 

 churches; its fine yellow flower-heads are 

 single at the ends of the twigs, and more 

 than two inches across. The Chilians call 



