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n English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Browne.

Morsus-ranæ), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.

The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning. Evelyn.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

To unfold leaves, as plants.

The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves.

Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. Woodward. Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly escape notice.

of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick. A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. Ure.

veral species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic. Climbing fumitory (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with ele…

nimal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.

he vertical triangular portion of the end of a building, from the level of the cornice or eaves to the ridge of the roof. Also, a similar end when not triangular in shape, as of a gambrel roof and the like. Hence:

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

- Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.

Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent). Gray.

fluting iron for fabrics. -- Gauffering press (Flower Manuf.), a press for crimping the leaves and petals into shape.

The arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.

Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.

Greaves; armor for the legs. [Obs.] Spenser.