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furnishes good furniture wood. According 

 to Roxburgh, the bark is very tough, red 

 within, bitter and astringent. It is used 

 by woodmen for bundling up the wood, 

 instead of cord. The common appellation 

 of Stinkwood has no doubt suggested the 

 name of the genus. [A. A. BJ 



FOG-FRUIT. An American name for 

 Lippia nodiflora. 



FOLIACEOTTS. Having the texture or 

 form of a leaf, as the branches of Xylo- 

 phylla. 



FOLIA MALABATHRI. The aromatic 

 dried leaves of Cinnamomum nitidum. 



FOLIAR. Inserted upon, or proceeding 

 from the leaf; thus a cirrhus foliaris is a 

 tendril growing from a leaf. 



FOLIATION. The act of leafing. 



FOLIATE. Clothed with leaves. 



FOLLICUL ARES. A suborder of plants 

 belonging to the Proteacece, and referred 

 by Decandollc to the monochlamydeous 

 dicotyledons. They are distinguished by 

 their coriaceous or woody follicles, which 

 contain one or many seeds. The general 

 characters of the order are given under 

 Proteace^:. The follicular division con- 

 tains such genera as Grcvillea, Hakea,Lam- 

 bertia, Rhopala, Knightia, Telopia, Lomatia, 

 Banksia, and Dryandra. [J. H. B.] 



FOLIIPAROUS. Producing leaves only, 

 as leaf-buds. 



FOLIOLE (adj. FOLIOLATE). A leaflet ; 

 the secondary divisions of a compound 

 leaf. 



FOLIOSE. Covered closely with leaves. 



FOLLE-AVOINE. (Fr.) Avenafatua. 



FOLLETTE. (Fr.) Atriplex hortensis. 



FOLLICLE. A kind of fruit, consisting 

 of a single carpel, dehiscing by the ventral 

 suture only, as in Delphinium, Asclepias, 

 Apocymim, &c. 



FONTANESIA. A Syrian shrub of the 

 olive family, named in honour of M. Des- 

 fontaines, an eminent French botanist. It 

 has lance-shaped leaves, ciliated at the 

 margins ; and white clustered flowers with 

 a persistent four-cleft calyx, and four petals 

 united into pairs at the base by the adhe- 

 sion of the two stamens. The ovary is two 

 to three-celled, with two suspended ovules, 

 the style short, the stigma cleft into two 

 threadlike divisions. The capsule is thin, 

 notched, indehiscent, surmounted by the 

 stigmas, and having a membranous mar- 

 gin. [M. T. M.] 



FONTINALEI, FONTINALIS. A small 

 section and genus of pleurocarpous mosses, 

 distinguished by their aquatic habit, the 

 nearly sessile capsule immersed in the peri- 

 chaetial leaves, and the cancellated inner 

 peristome. The principal genus, FonlmaMs, 

 contains a few species confined to tem- 

 perate regions of the northern hemisphere. 

 The leaves are curiously compressed, so 



that the stems have a triquetrous outline. 

 There is, however, no nerve as in the Dre- 

 panophyllei, and they are frequently split 

 down the middle, each division looking like 

 a separate leaf. F. antipyretica is common 

 about millwheels, on stones, roots, &c, in 

 running streams ; and does not fructify 

 unless the plant is exposed or the ends of 

 the branches come up to the surface. The 

 dried plant is used by the Laplanders to 

 stuff the space between the chimneys and 

 the wall, to prevent fire, as it does not 

 easily ignite. Fontinalis has a mitrteform 

 calyptra, but in the neighbouring genus 

 Dichelyma the calyptra is dimidiate, while 

 the capsules are more exserted. [M. J. B.] 



FONTINALIS, FONT ANUS. Growing in 

 or near a spring of water. 



FOOL'S-STONES. Orchis musculo, and 

 Morio. 



FORAMEN. An aperture. The foramen 

 of an ovule is an aperture through the in- 

 teguments, allowing the passage of the 

 pollen tubes to the nucleus. 



FORAMINULE. The ostiolum of certain 

 fungals. 



FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Citrus Paradisi. 

 — (of London). A variety of the shaddock, 

 C. decumana. — (of Italy). The Pomme 

 dAdam, a variety of G. Limetta. — (of 

 Paris). The sweet-skinned orange, a va- 

 riety of C. Aurantium. 



FORCIPATE. Forked, like a pair of 

 pincers. 



FORGET-ME-NOT. Myosotis palustris. 

 — , ANTARCTIC. Myosotidium nobile. 



FORFICARIA graminifolia is a ter- 

 restrial tuberous-rooted orchid of South 

 Africa, with narrow, rigid, grassy leaves 

 shorter than the stem, which is one to two 

 feet high, and terminating in a loose ra- 

 ceme of eight to ten flowers, each sup- 

 ported by a short membranaceous bract. 

 The upper sepal is boat-shaped, the two 

 lateral ones larger, keeled and acute, the 

 petals bristle-like and hairy, and the lip 

 very short, fleshy and pubescent. There 

 is only one species. [A. A. BJ 



FORNICATE. Arched. 



FORNIX. Little arched scales in the 

 orifice of some flowers. 



FORRESTIA. A genus of Commelynacece 

 found in New Guinea. Herbs with ellipti- 

 cal lanceolate glabrous leaves having hairy 

 sheaths, and red flowers in dense heads, 

 with six stamens, the filaments of which 

 are glabrous. [J. T. S.J 



FORSKOLEA. A genus of Urticacece, 

 found in various parts of Africa, the Medi- 

 terranean region, Arabia, and North-West 

 India. It belongs to a small tribe charac- 

 terised by the male flowers having but one 

 stamen ; and is distinguished from its near 

 allies by its minute flowers being enclosed 

 in a two or many-leaved involucre. The 

 five known species are branching herbs, 

 with tough somewhat woody stems clothed 



