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Fuament. (1.) The stalk or support of an anther. (2.) Any thread-like body. 
Frramentrous. Composed of threads or filaments. : 
Frurrorm. Thread-shaped. 
Fuveriate. Having the margin fringed with narrow processes. 
Fistunar, Fistutose. Hollow and cylindrical ; reed-like, 
FLABELLATE, FLABELLIFORM. Fan-shaped. 
Fuaccrp. Flabby ; limp. 
FLAGELLIFORM. Long and slender, like a whip-lash. 
Fuexvose. Bent or curved alternately in opposite directions. 
Fioccose. Bearing tufts or locks of woolly hairs, 
Froret. A small flower, one of a cluster or head. 
FuorireRous. Flower-bearing. 
Fortip. Having a strong and disagreeable smell. 
Forracrous. Having the texture or form of a leaf. 
Fourate. Leafy; clothed with leaves. 
FouroLatse. Having leaflets. 
Foutuicte. A fruit consisting of a single carpel, dehiscing by the ventral suture. 
FotiicuLarR. Resembling a follicle. 
Foop-staLk. A petiole, pedicel, or other slender support. 
ForKep. Branching into two divergent divisions. 
Fovnate. Pitted ; marked with depressions. 
Fronp. The foliage of ferns and other Cryptogams. 
Frucrification. Fruiting ; the organs concerned in the production of fruit. 
Fruticose. Shrubby. 
Fueactous. Soon falling off or perishing ; of short duration, 
Futvous. Tawny; dull-yellow with a mixture of grey or brown. 
Funtcte. The stalk connecting the ovule or seed with the placenta. 
Furcatse. Forked ; having divergent branches like the prongs of a fork. 
Furruracreous. Scurfy ; provided with soft scales. 
Fustrorm. Thick, but tapering towards each end ; spindle-shaped. 
GaLEA, <A petal shaped like a helmet. 
GamMopEeTaLous. Applied to a corolla in which the petals are more or less united. 
GAMOSEPALOUS. Having the sepals more or less united. 
GemiInatTeE. Arranged in pairs ; binate. 
Generic. Relating to the genus. 
GeniouLate. Bent like the knee. 
Genus. A clearly defined group of naturally allied species, 
Gispous. Protuberant ; swelling out into a pouch or sac, 
GLABROUS. Having no hairs or pubescence ; smooth. 
GLABRATE. Becoming glabrous. - 
GLABRESCENT. Almost glabrous. 
GLADIATE. Sword-shaped ; ensiform. 
Guanp. Any secreting structure, whether neareoned or prominent, on any part of a 
plant. 
GLANDULAR. Possessing glands; gland-like. 
GLAUCESCENT. Becoming glaucous or sea-green. 
Giaucous. Of a sea-green colour. 
GLOBOSE, GLOBULAR. Spherical or nearly so, 
GiocHipratE. Applied to hairs that are barbed at the end. 
GLOMERATE. Arranged in compact clusters. 
GLOMERULE. A compact and somewhat capitate cluster of flowers; a small and 
densely compacted cyme. 
GLtumAcEOus. Resembling the glumes of grasses. 
Gutumn. The term applied to the chaff-like and usually distichous bracts of the: 
inflorescence of grasses and allied plants. 
GLUTINOUS. Covered with a sticky secretion. 
Gratn. The fruit of grasses ; a caryopsis. 
GRANULAR, GRANULOSE. Composed of small grains or rough with small grains. 
GyMNOSsPERMS. Plants in which the ovule is not enclosed in an ovary, as in the 
Coniferae. 
GynaEcEuM. The pistil or pistils of a flower ; the female portion of a flower. 
GYNANDROUS. Having the stamens adnate to the pistil, as in Orchids. 
GynopHorn. The stalk or support of the ovary. 
Gyrate. Curved into a circle or spiral ; circinate. 
