INDEX 
673 
Flag, yellow-, Iris\ sweet-, Acorns 
Flagellate, with whip-like runners 
Flahault, A., 184 
Flamboyante, Poinciana 
Flame tree (Austr.), Nuytsia 
Flavescent, becoming yellow 
Flavus (Lat.), pure yellow 
Flax, Linum ; New Zealand-, 
Phor?niu??i ; spurge-, Daphne 
Gnidium L. 
Flea-bane, Erigeron , Pulicaria ; 
(W. I.) Per nonia arbor escens 
Sw. 
Fleshy fruits, 107, iro, 204 
Fleur de lis, Iris 
Flexuose stem, 45 
Flixweed, Sisymbrium Sophia L. 
Floating heart (Am.), Limnan- 
themum 
Floral diagram, 83 ; -envelope, 
perianth ; -formula, 84 ; -leaves, 
69; -mechanisms, 94; -regions, 
192 ; -symmetry, 73 
Floras, 141 
Flores verbasci, Verbascum 
Floret, small flower of cluster 
Fioribundus, producing many flrs. 
Florida velvet bean, Mucuna 
Floridus (Lat.), showy 
-florus (Lat. suff.), flowered 
Flos (Lat.), a flower 
Flower, 66, 61, 74 ; -and insects, 
66, 73, 76, 87, 93, 102, 184; 
-axis, 66 ; -buds, 74, 156 ; 
classes of-, 87, and see A, AB, 
B, B', F, H, Po, W ; colours of-, 
100, 89, 184; -cup, 71 ; -de 
luce. Iris ; description of-, 85 ; 
descriptive terms, 74 ; doubling 
of-, 22, 208 ; -ecology, 85 ; -fence 
(Barbados), Caesalpinia pulcher- 
rima Sw. ; -evolution, 67 ; -me- 
chanism, 94; -movements, 104, 
96; -of xerophytes, 168; -pride 
(W. I.), Caesalpinia pulcher- 
rima Sw. ; -tube, 89 ; -with 
exposed honey, 89 
Flowering ash, Fraxinus\ -cur- 
rant, Ribes ; -rush, Butomus 
FI. pi., flore pleno, double 
flowered 
Fir., flower 
Fluitans (Lat.), floating 
Fluviatilis (Lat.), growing in 
stream^. 
Fly- flowers, Amorphophallus , 
Araceae , Arum , Asarum , Co- 
boea, Stapelia\ -orchis, Ophrys ; 
-trap, American, Apocynum ; 
- -, Venus’, Dionaea 
Flying buttress roots, 191 
Fodder-plants, 203 
Foerste, 156 
Foetid horehound, Ballota 
Folia Jaborandi, Pilocarpus 
Foliaceous, leaf-like, leaf-bearing 
Foliage leaves, 32, plants, 208 
Folium (Lat.), a leaf 
-folius (Lat. suff.), -leaved 
Follicle, 108 
Fontanus (Lat.), growing in or 
near a spring 
Food bodies, Acacia ; for animals, 
203; for man, 203; of the gods, 
Ferula 
Fool’s parsley, Aethusa 
Foot, 56 
Foramen, an aperture 
Forbidden fruit (W. I.), Citrus 
Aurantium , var. Paradisi 
Forest oak, Casuarina 
Forests, 185, 190 
F orget - me- not , Myosotis 
Fork- veined, 51 
Forms of vegetation, 150 
Formula, floral, 84 
Forsk., Forskal 
Forst., Forster 
Fossil botany, 120 
Four-o’clock, Mirabilis 
Fowl-meadow- grass (Am.), Poa , 
Glyceria 
Fox-glove, Digitalis ; -grape, 
Vitis ; -tail-grass, Alopecurus , 
(Am.) Spartina patens Muhl. 
Frangipani, Plumiei'ia 
Frankincense, 199, Boswellia ; 
-pine, Pinus 
Free, not ad- nor con-nate 
Free-central placentation, 80, 82 
Freidenfeldt, 150 
French bean, Phaseolus\ -jujubes, 
W. 
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