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_Fistular._ Hollow and cylindrical.
_Flaccid._ Without rigidity, lax and weak.
_Fleshy._ Succulent; juicy; of the consistence of flesh.
_Flexuous._ Zigzag; bending alternately in opposite directions.
_Floccose._ Clothed with locks of soft hair or wool.
_Foliaceous._ Leaf-like in texture or appearance.
_foliate._ Having leaves.
_-foliolate._ Having leaflets.
_Follicle._ A fruit consisting of a single carpel, dehiscing by the ventral suture.
_Follicular._ Like a follicle.
_Forked._ Divided into nearly equal branches.
_Fornicate._ Arched over, as the corona of some Borraginaceae, closing the throat.
_Free._ Not adnate to other organs.
_Friable._ Easily crumbled.
_Frond._ The leaf of Ferns and some other Cryptogams; also in some Phaenogams, as in Lemnaceae, where it serves for stem as well as foliage.
_Fruit._ The seed-bearing product of a plant, simple, compound, or aggregated, of whatever form.
_Fugacious._ Falling or fading very early.
_Funicle._ The free stalk of an ovule or seed.
_Fuscous._ Grayish-brown.
_Fusiform._ Spindle-shaped; swollen in the middle and narrowing toward each end.
_Galea._ A hooded or helmet-shaped portion of a perianth, as the upper sepal of Aconitum, and the upper lip of some bil.a.b.i.ate corollas.
_Galeate._ Helmet-shaped; having a galea.
_Gamopetalous._ Having the petals of the corolla more or less united.
_Gamophyllous._ Composed of coalescent leaves, sepals, or petals.
_Gemma._ A bud or body a.n.a.logous to a bud by which a plant propagates itself.
_Gemmiparous._ Producing gemmae.
_Geniculate._ Bent abruptly, like a knee.
_Gibbous._ Protuberant or swollen on one side.
_Glabrate._ Somewhat glabrous, or becoming glabrous.
_Glabrous._ Smooth; not rough, p.u.b.escent, or hairy.
_Gland._ A secreting surface or structure; any protuberance or appendage having the appearance of such an organ.
_Glandular._ Bearing glands or of the nature of a gland.
_Glaucous._ Covered or whitened with a bloom.
_Globose, Globular._ Spherical or nearly so.
_Glochidiate._ Barbed at the tip.
_Glomerate._ Compactly cl.u.s.tered.
_Glumaceous._ Furnished with or resembling glumes.
_Glume._ One of the chaffy bracts of the inflorescence of Gra.s.ses.
_Granular._ Composed of small grains.
_Gregarious._ Growing in groups or cl.u.s.ters.
_Gymnospermous._ Bearing naked seeds, without an ovary.
_Gynandrous._ Having the stamens borne upon the pistil, as in Orchidaceae.
_Gyn.o.base._ An enlargement or prolongation of the receptacle bearing the ovary.
_Habit._ The general appearance of a plant.
_Halberd-shaped._ The same as Hastate.
_Hastate._ Like an arrow-head, but with the basal lobes pointing outward nearly at right angles.
_Head._ A dense cl.u.s.ter of sessile or nearly sessile flowers on a very short axis or receptacle.
_Heart-shaped._ Ovate with a sinus at base.
_Herb._ A plant with no persistent woody stem above ground.
