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GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
Filiform filnmmium, thread-shaped stamina. 
Fimbrieata, petula, a fringed petal, as in menyanthus. 
Fissnm folium, a leaf split or cloven half way down. 
Fistnlosus caulis, a piped or hollow stem. 
Ftabelh-.tum folium, a fan shaped leaf. 
Flaceidas pedunculus, the t'oot-stalk of a (lower that is feeble and slender. 
Flagellum, a twig, or shoot like a w hip or thong. 
Flexuosus caulis, a stalk having many turnings or bendings, taking a dif- 
ferent direction at every joint. 
Floralia/obu, floral leaves that immediately attend the flower. 
Floralis ge;tnna, flower buds. 
Flos, a flower. 
Foliacea>, glandule, glands growing on the leaves. 
Foliarisgenimutio, leaf buds. 
Foliatia plautce, the complication of the leaves, whilst folded within the 
gemma, or bud. 
Foliates remits, a leafy stalk. 
Foliilera gemma, a bud producing leaves. 
Foliolmn, a little leaf, one of the single leaves, which together constitute a 
compound leaf. 
Foliosmu capitulum, covered with leaves amongst the flowers or tops of the 
plant. 
Folium, a leaf. 
Fornicatnm petalum, vaulted or arched, as in the upper lip of the flowers 
in the class didynamia. 
Frebuens planta, plants growing frequently, or commonly every where. 
Frondescentia, the season ofthe year when the leaves ot plants are unfolded. 
Frondosns cordex, a species of trunk composed ot a branch and a leal 
blend d together, as is frequently united with the fructification. 
Fructescentio, the temporary pait of a vegetable appropriated to genera- 
tion, terminating the old vegetable, and beginning the new. 
Frustrauea polysomia, to no purpose, the third order of the class syngenesia. 
Frutex, a shrub. 
Fructicosus caulis, a shrubby stalk. 
Fugaeissima petula, petals that arc fleeting, and ot short duration. 
Fulcratus caulis, branches having props, see Fulcrum. 
Fulcrum, a prop or support. 
Fungi, a kind of mushroom, one of the seven families of plants, an order of 
plants in the fragmeuta methodi natural ls of Liunteus. 
Furcata, forked. 
Fusiform radix, a spindle-shaped root. 
Galea, a helmet applied to the corolla of the class gynandrU, as in orchis. 
Galeatmn lahium, the lip of a flower, shaped like a helmet. 
Gemiro stipulai, stipule growing in pairs. 
Germinates pedunculus, double foot-stalks growing Irom the same point. 
Gemma, a bud, an hibcruaeulum on the ascending caudex. 
Gemnatio, a \ onng hud. 
Gemmiparns, bearing buds. 
Genera' plantarum, genera of plants, the second subdivision in the Ltnnrean 
system ; it comprehends an assemblage ot species, similar in their parts 
of fructification, under the same class and order. 
Genceulatns ca.iis, cuimus, pedunculus, a jointed stalk, straw, or foot stalk 
of a flower. 
Gernien, a sprout or bud, the base of the pistillum, the rudiment ot the 
fruit yet in embryo. 
Gibbum folium, bunching out, or gouty. 
Glaber, smooth, having an even surface. 
Gladiata siliqua, a sword shaped pod. 
Glandulse, a glun 1, or secretory vessel. 
Glandulifora scabritics, a kind of biistly roughness on the surface ot some 
plants, on which there are minute glands at the extremity of each bristle. 
