El-lip´tic-al, oblong and rounded at the ends; longer than oval.
Em´bry-o, the little plant forming a part of the seed, usually consisting of caulicle, one or more cotyledons and a plumule.
- Eragrostis, [115]
- Erechtites, [165]
- Ergot, [110]
- Erigeron, [165], [166]
- Erodium, [142]
- Erysimum, [135]
- Euphorbia, [143], [144]
- Euphorbiaceae, [143]
- Evening primrose, [147]
- Evening primrose family, [147]
Fe´male flow´er, one having pistils only, but no stamens; pistillate flower.
Fer´tile, producing fruit, or reproductive bodies of any kind.
- Field dodder, [150]
- Field garlic, [119]
- Field madder, [159]
- Field pepper-grass, [136]
- Figwort family, [156]
- Fire-weed, [165]
- Five finger, [139]
- Flat-stemmed Poa, [116]
- Flax dodder, [150]
- Fleabane, [165], [166]
- Floral glume
Flo´ret, a single flower of a head or cluster, especially in Compositae.
Glume, one of the outer floral envelopes in grasses or sedges. The term as now used includes the bracts (empty glumes) which subtend a spikelet and the lower of the two bracts subtending the individual flower (flowering or floral glume, lemma).