Excentric; deviating from the axis, or centre.
Exfoliate; to throw off layers or plates, as bark, etc. Exogenous plants. Thoee which have two (or sometimes more) cotyledons, and grow by annual layers of wood (or new matter) on the outside, between the old wood and bark.
Exogens• outside growers ; plants which increase by an nual additions to the outside.
Exsert, or exserted' projecting or protruding out, as ata mena from the tube of the corolla, Exatepulate; destitute of etipulcs.
Extrorse anthem. Having the cells 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 plenta, called also an Order; sometimes of numerous genera and sp'eciett; sometimes comprising but a single genus. Fan ehaped; cuneate below, and spreading above, like a lady's fan.
Farinaceous; mealy ; reducible to a meal-like powder. Fascicle; a little buodle, or hunch, of flowers, leaves, etc., originating from nearly the same point.
Fascicled, or fa-mica/ate; growing in bundles, or bunches from the same point.
Fastigiate; level-topped; the summits of the branches all rising to the same height.
Favose; deeply pitted; somewhat like a honey-comb. Feather-veined leaf. Where the lateral veins (or nerves) diverge regularl'from each side 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.
Fila neat; that part of the stamen (usually thread-like) which supports the anther.
Fiikro • m; very slender and terete, like a thread. Finabrics; fringes, or fringe-like processes.
Pinabriate; finely divided at the edge, like a fringe. Fienbrillate; clothed with fixtbritIce (i.e„ membranaceous, linear or subulate filamenta)—as the receptacle of this tles, etc.
Fissure ; a slit crack, or narrow opening.
rislular, or fistulous ; hollow and terete, like a pipe, tubular.
Flabelliform; fan-shaped, which see.
Flaccid; so limber ae to 'bend by its own weight. Fiagelliform; long, slender and pliable, like the thong of a Whip.
Ftexuose; serpentine, or with a succession of short alt,r nating curves.
Floccose, orfloccatent; covered with flocks, flakes, or little matted bunches of partly detached omentum.
Floral; belonging to, or situated near, a flower.
Floral envelopes; the verticile, or coverings of flowers, usually known as calyx and corolla; sometimes as chaff. Floret; a little flower; usually one of the number in com pound or aggregated flowers.
Floriferous; hearing flowers.
Foliaceous; of a leaf-like lbrm and texture; resembling a leaf.
Foliole; 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.
Foramen (plural, foramina); a roundish hole, or open in Foreo g.
late; pitted.
Free; not adhering to each other, nor to any adjacent organ Frondose; leafy, or with leaf-like appendages. Fructification; the flower and fruit, with their parts. Fruit; the mature ovary or seed-vessel, and its contents. Fruteecent; becoming shrubby, or hard and woody. Fruticose; shrub-like, or ahrubby., Fruticulose; like a little shrub.
Fugucious; fleeting; of short duration.
Fatuous; tawnjr, fox or tan-colored.
Faigous; of rapid growth and soft texture, like the fungi. Funiculus; the little cord by which seeds are attached to the placenta.
Funnel form; tubular below, and expanding above like a funnel.
Furcate; forked.
Furfuraceous ; scaly, or scurfy, like bran or dandruff. Fuscous ; greyish brown, or deep brown, 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 caaque, or helmet. Gamopetaloue; having the petals all more or less united, forming what is palled (rather incorrectly) a monopet alone corolla.