_Fimbriate_, fringed; furnished with fringes (_fimbriæ_). _Fimbrillate_, _Fimbrilliferous_, bearing small _fimbriæ_, i. e. _fimbrillæ_. _Fissiparous_, multiplying by division of one body into two. _Fissus_, Latin for split or divided. _Fistular_, or _Fistulose_, hollow and cylindrical, as the leaves of the Onion. _Flabelliform_, or _Flabellate_, fan-shaped. _Flagellate_, or _Flagelliform_, long, narrow, and flexible, like the thong of a whip; or like the runners (_flagellæ_) of the Strawberry. _Flavescent_, yellowish, or turning yellow. _Flavus_, Latin for yellow. _Fleshy_, composed of firm pulp or flesh. _Flexuose_, or _Flexuous_, bending in opposite directions, in a zigzag way. _Floating_, swimming on the surface of water. _Floccose_, composed of or bearing tufts of woolly or long and soft hairs. _Flora_ (the goddess of flowers), the plants of a country or district, taken together, or a work systematically describing them, 9. _Floral Envelopes_, or _Flower-leaves_, 79. _Floret_, a diminutive flower, one of a mass or cluster. _Floribund_, abundantly floriferous. _Florula_, the flora of a small district. _Flos_, _floris_, Latin for flower. _Flosculus_, diminutive, same as floret. _Flower_, the whole organs of reproduction of Phænogamous plants, 14, 72. _Flower-bud_, an unopened flower. _Flowering Plants_, 10, 156. _Flowerless Plants_, 10, 156. _Fly-trap leaves_, 65. _Fluitans_, Latin for floating. _Fluviatile_, belonging to a river or stream. _Foliaceous_, belonging to, or of the texture or nature of, a leaf (_folium_). _Foliate_, provided with leaves. Latin prefixes denote the number of leaves, as _bifoliate_, _trifoliate_, &c. _Foliose_, leafy; abounding in leaves. _Foliolate_, relating to or bearing leaflets (_foliola_); _trifoliolate_, with three leaflets, &c. _Folium_ (plural, _folia_), Latin for leaf. _Follicle_, a simple pod, opening down the inner suture, 122. _Follicular_, resembling or belonging to a follicle. _Food of Plants_, 144. _Foot-stalk_, either petiole or peduncle, 49. _Foramen_, a hole or orifice, as that of the ovule, 110. _Foraminose_, _Foraminulose_, pierced with holes. _Forked_, branched in two or three or more. _Fornicate_, bearing fornices. _Fornix_, little arched scales in the throat of some corollas, as of Comfrey. _Foveate_, deeply pitted. _Foveolate_, diminutive of _foveate_. _Free_, not united with any other parts of a different sort, 95. _Fringed_, the margin beset with slender appendages, bristles, &c. _Frond_, what answers to leaves in Ferns, &c., 157; or to the stem and leaves fused into one, as in Liverwort. _Frondescence_, the bursting into leaf. _Frondose_, frond-bearing; like a frond, or sometimes used for leafy. _Fructification_, the state or result of fruiting. _Fructus_, Latin for fruit. _Fruit_, the matured ovary and all it contains or is connected with, 117. _Fruit-dots_ in Ferns; see _Sorus_.