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GLOSSAET. 
Excurrent ; extending beyond the edge or point. 
Exserted ; projecting beyond that which surrounds its base. 
Extrorse anthers have the slit by which the pollen escapes 
directed from the ovary. 
Fdcate ; like a sickle. 
Falling short of\ the reverse of exceeding. '' 
Fasciculate ; when several similar parts are collected into a 
bundle and spring from the same spot ; often the developed 
leaves of an undeveloped axillary branch form a fascicle. 
Feathery ; like a feather in structure. 
Felted ; tomentose. 
Fibre ; a hair-like kind of elementary structm-e. 
Fibrous ; having many threadlike parts. 
Filament ; the stalk usually foimd supporting an anther. 
Filiform ; like a thread. 
Flaccid; weak. 
Flexuose ; zigzag ; usually changing its direction at each joining. 
Floccose ; with little tufts like wool. 
Follicle; an inflated 1 -celled carpel, opening by a suture to 
which several seeds are attached. 
Forked; like a fork of two prongs. 
Frond ; the leaflike part of Ferns. 
Fruit ; the seed-vessel with its ripe contents and any external 
appendages. 
Fruit-bearing ; the state of inflorescence when the fruit is ripe 
or nearly so, contradistinguished homjlower-bearing. 
Fruticose; shrubby. 
Fugacious ; soon falling ofi". 
Funnel-shaped ; tubular below, but gradually enlai-ging upwards. 
Furcate; forked. 
Fusifcyrm ; spindle-shaped ; thick tapering to each end. 
Germen; the ovary. 
Gibbous ; swollen on one side. 
Glabrous ; without hairs or other clothing. 
Gland ; a wartlike cellular secreting organ usually raised above 
the surface. 
Glandular ; having glands. 
Glandular-hairy ; having hairs tipped with glands. 
Gla7idular-serrate ; having short teeth tipped with glands. 
Glaucous ; green with a whitish-blue lustre. 
Globose ; round like a globe. 
Glumes ; the scales inclosing the spikelet of flowers in Grasses ; 
the imbricate bracts inclosing the flowers of Sedges. 
Glumiferous ; having flowers covered by ghmies. 
Granular ; covered with minute projecting points. 
