fuse] 



{JDIje CrsaSurj) 0f i&fltaitj). 



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little importance from an economical point 

 of view. [M. J. B.] 



FUSETTE. The Spanish name for Rhus 

 Cotinus. 



FTTSISPORIUM. A genus of moulds 

 with septate spindle-shaped spores spring- 

 ing from free mucedinous threads, and at 

 length forming a gelatinous mass. It is 

 distinguished from Fusarium hy its not 

 bursting forth from beneath the cuticle as 

 in that genus. Several of the species are 

 destructive to vegetables, such as tur- 

 nips, beet-root, gourds, &c. F. Solani is 

 extremely injurious to potatos, and in 

 company with Peronospora infestans has- 

 tens the decomposition which is due to 

 that parasite, or converts the tubers into 

 a hard dry innutritious mass. The flocci 

 are, however, too much developed to make 

 this a typical Fasisporium. [M. J, BJ 



FUSCOUS. Brown, with a greyish or 

 blackish tinge. 



FUSIFORM. Thick, tapering to each 

 end; as the root of the long radish. Some- 

 times conical roots are called fusiform. 



FUSTET. (Fr.) Rhus Cotinus. 



FUSTIC. A dye-stuff, consisting of the 

 wood of Madura tinctoria. —, YOUNG. 

 The wood of Rhus Cotinus. 



G.ERDTIA. A genus of Begoniacece 

 having the staminate and pistillate flowers 

 on the same plant, arranged in dichoto- 

 mous cymes. The staminate flowers hive 

 a white four-leaved perianth, and twenty 

 to thirty stamens; and the pistillate ones, 

 which also have a white four-leaved peri- 

 anth, have a three-winged ovary with three 

 central hind placentas. They are Brazilian 

 shrubby plants with smooth shining joint- 

 ed stems and branches, semicordate leaves, 

 and large shining deciduous stipules. The 

 four known species are included by most 

 authors under Begonia. [J. H. BJ 



G^ERTNERA. A genus of opposite-leav- 

 ed bushes or small trees of the Logania 

 family, differing from most of the genera, 

 in the fruits being two-celled berries with 

 one or rarely two instead of numerous 

 seeds in each cell. The erect and not 

 lateral attachment of the seeds serves 

 to distinguish them from their nearest 

 allies. The greater number of the thirty 

 known species are found in Mauritius and 

 Madagascar, the remainder in W.Africa 

 and the Malayan peninsula and islands. 

 The smooth entire leaves are lance-shaped, 

 ovate or elliptical, and the flowers are 

 white, green, or rose-coloured: in some 

 species not unlike those of the com- 

 mon privet and arranged in a similar 

 manner, in others disposed in compact ter- 

 minal heads, and in a goodly number in 

 corymbs. The calyx is usually very minute, 

 I but in G. calycina, a Mauritian species, it 

 is enlarged, bell-shaped, and coloured. The 

 corolla tube has a flat border of five nar- 

 row lobes, and bears on its inner face five 

 stamens. The ovary becomes, when ripe, a 



white, black, or blue berry about the size 

 of a pea, with two seeds. [A. A. B.] 



GAGE A. An extensive genus of Liliacece 

 formerly included in Omlthugalum , from 

 which it is easily distinguished by the 

 seeds having a yellowish (not black) seed- 

 coat, and the stamens adhering more dis- 

 tinctly to the segments of the perianth. 

 The species are natives of Europe, tempe- 

 rate Asia, and northern Africa, and re- 

 semble each other closely in having linear 

 root-leaves, and a scape with a terminal 

 bracteated umbel or corymb of greenish- 

 yellow flowers rather large for the size of 

 the plants. The perianth is persistent, of 

 six patent nearly equal divisions; the 

 stamens six ; the style terminated by a 

 three-lobed stigma ; the capsule three- 

 celled and three-valved. G. lutea is a 

 British species, though rather rare ; it is 

 distinguished from allied European species 

 by having no accessory bulb included in 

 the common envelope. [J. T. S.] 



GAGLEE. Arum maculatum. 



GAIAC. A name applied in French 

 Guiana to the wood of Bipteryx odorata. 



GAILLARDIA. A genus of handsome an- 

 nual or perennial North American herbs of 

 the composite family, chiefly found in the 

 Southern States,someextendingto Oregon, 

 and G. aristata reaching across the Rocky 

 Mountains to the Winipeg Valley. The 

 chief features of the genus are the slender 

 bristles instead of chaffy scales of the re- 

 ceptacle, the long and filiform styles, the 

 neuter ray florets, and the villous achenes 

 crowned with a pappus of six to ten mem- 

 i branaceous one-nerved scales, which are 

 ! prolonged into an awn. The leaves are 

 | sometimes pinnatifld, but more generally 

 ■ entire or obscurely toothed, lance-shaped 

 and rough, the cauline ones sessile. The 

 , flower-heads, about two inches across, are 

 single and supported on naked stalks, 

 | the strap-shaped ray florets three to five- 

 toothed, sometimes brick-red or purple 

 below, sometimes altogether yellow. The 

 slender hairs of the stems and leaves are 

 ! seen to be curiously jointed when looked at 

 through a lens. Six species are known, all 

 ; of them pretty border plants. [A. A. B.] 



| GAILLET. (Fr.) Galium. 



J GAIMARDIA. A genus of Besvauxiacece, 

 differing from the rest of the order by hav- 

 ing two instead of only one stamen. It 

 contains a small tufted herb from the 

 Maclovian Islands, with erect stems branch- 

 ed at the apex and densely leafy ; the 

 branches with scattered leaves ; the leaves 

 imbricated, bayonet-shaped, with sheath- 

 ing bases ; the flower-spike solitary termi- 

 nal, with one-flowered spikelets. [J. T. S.] 



GAINIER COMMUN. (Fr.) Cercis Sili- 

 quastrum. 



GAIROUTTE. (Fr.) Lathyrus Cicera. 



GAITRES BERRIES. The fruits of Cor- 

 nus sanguinea. 



