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Furv’na, (from far, corn.) Meal or flour. A term given to the giu- 
tinous part of wheat and other seeds, which is obtained by grinding 
and sifting. 
It consists of gluten, starch, and mucilage The pollen is also 
called farina. 
Fas‘cicle. A bundle. 
Fascic’ulate. Collected in bundles. 
Fastig’iate. Flat topped. 
Favo’sus. Resembling a honey comb. 
Faux. Jaws. The throat of the corolla. 
Ferns. _Cryptogamous plants, with the fruit on the backs of the leaves, 
or in spikes made up of minute capsules opening transversely. 
Fertile. Pistillate, yielding fruit. 
Fil’ament. The slender, thread-like part of the stamen. 
Fil’vces, (from filum, a thread,) Ferns. 
Filiform. Very slender. 
Mim’briate. Divided at the edge like fringe. 
Fis‘tulous. Hollow or tubular, as the leaf of the onion. 
Filac’cid. 'Too limber to support its own weight. 
Flagel’liform. ike a whip lash. 
Elam’meus. Flame coloured. 
Fla’/vus. Yellow. 
Flex’wous. Serpentine, or bending in a zig-zag form. 
Flo’ra. Considered by the heathens as the goddess of flowers. Books 
describing flowers are often called FVoras. 
Flo’ral leaf. See Bract. | 
Fio’ret. Little flower, part of a compound flower. 
Flos’cular. A tubular floret. 
Flow'er. (Flos.) A term which was formerly applied almost exciu- 
sively to the petals. At present a stamen and pistil only are con- 
sidered as forming a perfect flower. 
Flow’er stalk. See Peduncle. 
Folia’ceous. Leafy. 
Fol’liciles. Leafets; a diminutive of folium, a leaf. The smaller 
leaves which constitute a compound leaf. 
Fo’liwm leaf. Leaves are fibrous and cellular processes of plants; they 
are of different figures, but generally extended into a membranous 
or skinny substance. 
Follicle. A seed vessel which opens lengthwise, or on one side only. 
Foot’-stalk. Sometimes used instead of Peduncle and Petiole. 
Frag’ilis. Breaking easily, and not bending. 
Frond. The leaf of Cryptogamous plants; formerly applied to palms, 
Frrondes’cence, (from frons, a leaf.) ‘The time in which each species 
of plants unfolds its leaves. See Frondose. 
Frondo’se. (Frondosus.) Leafy, or leaf-like. 
Fructyfica’tion. The flower and fruit with their parts. 
Fructif’erous. Bearing or becoming fruit. 
Fructus. The fruit. This is an annual part of the plant which ad- 
heres to the flower and succeeds it; after attaining maturity it detaches 
itself from the parent plant, and on being placed in the bosom of the 
earth, gives birth toanew vegetable. In common lamguage, the fruit 
includes both the pericarp and the seed, but strictly speaking, the 
