VOCABULARY. 
Favo'sus. Resembling a honeycomb. 
Faux. Jaws. The throat of the corolla. 
Feb'rifuge. (From febris , a fever, and 
fugo, to drive away.) That which pos¬ 
sesses the property of abating fever. 
Ferns. Cryptogamous plants, with the 
fruit on the back of the leaves, or in 
spikes made up of minute capsules 
opening transversely. 
Fer'tile. Pistillate, yielding fruit. 
Ferruginous. Iron, rust-like. 
Fi'bre . Any thread-like part. 
FiVament. The slender thread-like 
part of the stamen. 
FiVices. {From Jilum 7 a thread.) Ferns. 
Fil'iform . Very slender. 
Firn'briate. Divided at the edge like 
fringe. 
Fis'tulous. Hollow or tubular, as the 
leaf of the onion. 
Flab el 1 liform. Fan-shaped. 
Flac'cid. Too limber to support its 
own weight. 
FlageVliform. Like a whip-lash. 
j Flam 1 mens. Flame-coloured. 
Fla'vus. Yellow. 
Flesh'y. Thick and pulpy. 
Flex'uous. Serpentine, or bending in 
a ziz-zag form. 
Flo'ra. Considered by the heathens as 
the goddess of flowers ; descriptions 
of flowers are often called Floras. 
FWral leaf. See Brac't. 
Flo'ret. Little flower ; part of a com¬ 
pound flower. 
Flo'rist. One who cultivates flowers. 
Flos'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. 
Flow'er-stalk. See Peduncle. 
Folia'ceous. Leafy. 
Fol'ioles. Leafets; a diminutive of 
folium , a leaf. The smaller leaves 
which constitute a compound leaf. 
Fol'ium. Leaf. Leaves are fibrous and 
cellular processes of the plants, of 
different figures, but generally ex¬ 
tended into a membranous or skinny 
substance. 
FoVlicle. A seed-vessel which opens 
lengthwise, or on one side only. 
Foot'-stalk. Sometimes used instead of 
peduncle and petiole. 
Fork'ed. See Dichotomous. 
Frag'ilis. Breaking easily. 
Frond. The leaf of cryptogamous 
plants; formerly applied to palms. 
Frondes'cence. (From frons , a leaf) 
The time in which each species of 
plants unfolds its first leaves. See 
Frondose. 
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Frondo'se , ( Frondosus .) Leafy, or leaf¬ 
like. 
Fructification. 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 at¬ 
taining 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 lan¬ 
guage, 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. 
Fru'tescent. Becoming shrubby. 
Fru'tex. A shrub. 
Fu'gax. Fugaceous, flying off. 
Ful'cra. Props, supports: as the peti¬ 
ole, peduncle, &c. 
Ful'vous. Yellowish. 
Fun'gi. The plural of fungus , a 
mushroom. 
Fun'gous. Growing rapidly with a 
soft texture like the fungi. 
Fu'nicle. The stalk which connects 
the ovale to the ovary. 
Funnel-form. Tubular at the bottom, 
and gradually expanding at the top. 
FWsiform. Spindle-shaped ; a root 
thick at the top and tapering down¬ 
wards. 
G 
Gal'ea. A helmet. 
Gem'ma. A bud seated upon the stem 
and branches, and covered with scales, 
in order to defend it from injury. 
The bud resembles the seed in con¬ 
taining the future plant in embryo ; 
but this embryo is destitute of a rad¬ 
icle, though if the bud is planted in 
the earth, a radicle is developed. 
Gemma'ceous. Belonging to a bud; 
made of the scales of a bud. 
Gener'ic name. The name of a genus. 
Genic'ulate. Bent like a knee. 
Ge'nus. (The plural of genus is gene¬ 
ra.) A family of plants agreeing 
in their flower and fruit. Plants of 
the same genus are thought to pos¬ 
sess similar medicinal powers. 
Germ. The lower part of the pistil 
which afterward becomes the fruit. 
Germination. The swelling of a seed 
and the unfolding of its embryo. 
Gib'bous. Swelled out commonly on 
one side. 
Glabel'lous. Bald, without covering. 
Gla'brous. Sleek, without hairiness. 
Gland . A small appendage, which 
