Evanescent; disappearing; speedily vanishing. Even-pinnate leaf. With the leaflets all iu pairs or with out a terminal odd one; often termed abruptly-pinnate. Evercreen; continuing green, and persisting all the year. Exalbuminous; destitute of albumen.
deviating from the axis, or centre.
Exfoliate; to throw off layers or platen, as bark, etc. Exogenous plants. Those which have two (or sometimes mord) cotyledons, and grow by annual layers of wood (or new matter) on the outside, between the old wood and bark.
Exogens; o itaide growers; plants which increase by an nual additions to the outside.
Exsert, or ,xserted; projecting or protruding out, ae eta .mens from the tube of the corolla.
Exsteputate; destitute of stipules.
Extrorse anthers. Having the cella turned outwards, or from the pistils, and the filament, or connective, ex tended up the inner side.
Falcate; sickle shaped; curved like a sickle, or scythe. Family of plants. A definite group of kindred plants, called also au Order; sometimes of numerous genera and species; sometimes comprising but a single Fan shaped; cuneate below, and spreading above, like a lady'a fan.
Farinaceous; mealy; reducisle to a meal-like powder Fascicle; a little bundle, or bunch. of ilowera, leaves, etc., originating from nearly the same point.
Fascicl--d, or fasciculate; growiu; in bundles, or bunches from the same point.
Fastigi .1e; level-topped; the summits of the branches all rising to the same height.
Pavan; deeply pitted; somewhat like a honey-comb. Feather-veined oaf. Where the lateral veins (or nerves) diverge regularly from each aide of the midrib, like the plumage of a quill.
Ferruginous; of the color of rust of iron; reddish-brown. Fertile; having perfect pistils, and producing fruit. Fibrous; composed of fibres, or thread-like processes. Fide; on the faith, or authority, of.
neat; that part of tale stamen (usually thread-like) which supports the anther.
Filifo m; very slender and terete, like a thread. Fimbrice; fringe., or fringe-like processes.
Finzbriate; finely divided at the edge, like a fringe. Fimbrillate; clothed with fimbrillce (i.e„ memb-anaceoua, linear or subulate filaments)—as the receptacle of this tles, etc.
Fissure; a slit, crack, or narrow opening.
Fistular, or fistulous ; hollow and terete, like a pipe, tubular.
Flabelteform; fan-shaped, which see.
Flaccid ; so limber ae to bend by its own weight.
Flag _inform; long, Blender and pliable, like the thong of a whip.
Flexaose; serpentine, or with a succession of short alter nating curves.
Floccoee, orfiocculent; covered with flocks, flakes, or little mai ted bunches of pa i fly detached omentum.
Floral; helonging to, or situated near, a flower.
Floral env. lopes; the verticals, or coverings of flowers, usually known as calyx and corolla; sometimes as chaff. lora ; a little flower; usually one of the number in com pound or aggregated flowers.
Floriferous; bearing flowers.
Foliaceous; of a leaf-like form and texture; resembling leaf.
Foliate; a leaflet in a compound leaf.
Follicle; a capsular fruit, opening longitudinally by a suture on one side.
Follicular; resembling, constructed like, or being, a folli cle.
boramen (plural, foramina); a roundish hole, or open ing.
Foreolate; pitted.
Free; not adhering to each other, nor to any adjacent (3, gan.
Frondose; leafy, or with leaf-like appendages. Fructification; the flower and fruit, with their parts. Fruit; the maiure ovary or seed-vessel, and its contents.. .Frutedcent; becoming shrubby, or hard and woody. Fruticode; shrub-like, or shrubby.
Fruticulose; like a little shrub.
Fag ?cious; fleeting; of short duration.
Fulvous; tawny, fox or tan-colored.
F •ngous; of rapid growth and soft texture, like thefungi. Funiculas; the little cord by which seeds are attached the placenta.
Funnel farm ; tubular below, and expanding above like• a funnel.
Furcate; forked.
Furfuraceous; scaly, or scurfy, like bran or dandrnff. Fuscous; greyish brown, or deep brims u, with a tinge of green.
Fusiform ; spindle-shaped; terete and tapering to a point._ Galea ; a helmet; the arched upper lip of a ringent corolla. Galeate ; helmeted; resembling a calque, or helmet. Gamopetalous ; having the pei ale all more or less united,.