Exogenous. Plants which increase their wood by external additions or rings of growth.

Exuviæ. A name sometimes given to all fossil remains found in the earth’s crust.

Fauna. The whole group of animals peculiar to a country or natural region at some one period.

Feldspar. A hard silicious rock.

Ferruginous. Irony, or containing iron.

Fern. (Lat., Felices), a class of cryptogamous plants.

Fissile. Capable of being split asunder.

Flustra. A parasitic zoophyte or polyparia, which covers sea-weeds and shells.

Fæcal sediment. Dregs, excrement.