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VOCABULARY. 
cines which promote a discharge 
from the lungs. 
Exserted. Pr ojecting out of the flow- 
er or sheath. 
Eye. See Hiluin. 
F. 
I- acliiious. Not natural, produced 
by art, (from Facio, to make.) 
Familes. A term in Botany imply- 
mg a natural union of several gene- 
1 a into groups ; sometimes used 
as synonymous with Natural Or- 
ders. 
Falcalc. Sickle shaped. Linear and 
crooked. 
Farina. (From far, corn.) Meal or 
flour. A termgivento the glutinous 
parts of wheat and other seeds which 
is obtained by grinding and sifting. 
Itconsists of gluten, starch and 
mucilage. The pollen is also cal- 
led farina. 
Fas'ciele. A bundle. 
Fascic ulate. Collected in bundles. 
Fastig'iate. Flat topped. 
Favo'sus. Resembling a honeycomb. 
Faux. Jaws. The throat of the co- 
rolla. 
Fcb'rifugc. (From febris, a fever and 
fugo to drive away.) That which 
possesses the property of abating 
fever. 
Ferns. Cryptogamous plants, with 
the fruit on the backs of the leaves, 
or in spikes made up of minute cap- 
sules opening transversely. 
Fer tile. Pistillate, yielding fruit. 
Fibre. Any thread like part. 
Fil'ament. jThe slender thread-like 
part of the stamen. 
Fiiices. (From filum a thread,) Ferns. 
Filiform. Very slender. 
Fim briate. Divided at the edge like 
fringe. 
Fis'tulous Hollow or tubular, as the 
leaf of the onion. 
Flaccid. Too limber to support its 
own weight. 
Flagcl'lifoim. Like a whip lash. 
Flanimeus. Flame coloured. 
Favus. Yellow. 
Flesh y. Thick and pulpy. 
Flex'uous. Serpentine, or bending in 
a zig-zag form. 
Flo'ra. Considered by the heathens as 
the goddess of flowers : descriptions 
of flowers are often called Floras. 
Flu'ral leaf. See Bract. 
Foret. Little flower, part of a com- 
pound flower. 
Flo'rist. One who cultivates flowers. 
blos'cular. A tubular floret. 
Flow er. (Flos.) A term which was 
formerly applied almost exclusively 
to the petals. At present a stamen 
and pistil only are considered as 
forming a perfect flower. 
Fluw'er stalk. Sec peduncle. 
Folia'ccous. Leafy. 
Follicles. Loafets ; a diminutive of 
folium, a leaf. The smaller leaves 
which constitute a compound leaf. 
Fo lium. Leaf. Leaves are fibrous 
and cellular processes of the plants 
of different figures but generally ex- 
tended into a membranaceous or 
skinny substance. 
Follicle. A seed vessel which opens 
lengthwise, or on one side only. 
FW'-stalk. Sometimes used instead 
of Peduncle and Petiole. 
Fork ed. See Dichotomous. 
Frag'ilis. Breaking easily, and not 
bending. 
Frond. The leaf of Cryptogamous 
plants ; formerly applied to palms. 
Fnmdes'cence. (From frons a leaf.) 
The time in which each species of 
plants unfolds its first leaves. See 
Frondose. [leaf-like. 
Frondo'se. (Frondosus.) Leafy, or 
Fructijica'tion. The flower and fruit 
with their parts. 
Fructiferous. Bearing or becoming 
fruit. 
Fruc'tus. The fruit is an annual part 
of the plant which adheres to the 
flower and succeeds it ; and after 
attaining maturity, detaches itself 
from the parent plant, and on being 
placed in the bosom of the earth 
gives birth to a new vegetable. In 
common language the fruit includes 
both the pericarp and the seed, but 
strictly speaking, the latter only is 
the fruit, while the former is but 
the case or vessel which contains 
it. 
Frutes'cent. Becoming shrubby. 
Fru'tex. A shrub. 
Fu’gax. Fugacious, flying off. 
Fulcra. Props, supports ; as the pe- 
tiole, peduncle, &c. 
Fulvous. Yellowish. 
Fungi. The plural of Fungus, a 
mushroom. 
Fun'govs. Growing rapidly, with a 
soft texture like the fungi. 
