A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

f.;

1. f., also fig. (abbrev., figura,-ae (s.f.I), q.v.), an illustration, often a part of an illustrated plate full of individual numbered figures);

- Mich. Nov. Gen. p. 211. n. 13. Tab. 90 f. 2. (Dill.) Micheli, Nova Plantarum Genera page 211. number 13, Plate. 90 figure 2.

- Mich. Nov. Gen. p. 211, n.16. Tab. 90 f.9 (Dill.), Micheli, Nova Plantarum Genera page 211, number 16, Plate 90 figure 9.

- Μuscus capillaris Panc. ic. 21. fig. mediocr. (Dill.), muscus capillaris (of the Herbarium of Thomas Pancovius) icon (i.e. illustration) 21, the figure mediocre.

2. f. (abbrev., fide), before a personal noun: ‘according to;’ see fide (abl.sg. of fides);

- GYNOSTEMA, Blume, est Cucurbitacea, f. Decaisne (B&H), Gynostema Blume is Cucurbitacea, according to Dacaisne.

- Genus f. A. Gray Vesicariae arctissime affine, sed differt siliqua compressa et cotyledonibus septo contrariis (B&H), a genus most closely related to Vesicaria, but it differs by the compressed silique and by the cotyledons in an opposite position to the septum.

3. f. (abbrev., lower case), also (obsol.) fil.(after a personal noun): filius,-ii (s.m.II), son; see filius,-ii (s.m.II);

- Carl Linnaeus the Younger (i.e. the younger of two botanists of the same name, i.e. Carl Linnaeus, Jr.): Linnaeus filius (Carl Linnaeus, the son), Linn. f.; L. f. or L. fil., son of Carl Linnaeus.

(the genus) Rottboellia L.f.; Conopholis americana (L.f.); Crataegus phaenopyrum (L.f.) Medic.; Cyperus chordorrhiza L.f.; Hydrocotyle ranunculoides (L.f.); Prunus pennsylvanica L. f.; Ranunculus pennsylvanicus L. f.; Spiraea japonica L. f.

- fide speciminum a Reichb. f. determinatorum, with the assurance of specimens determined by Reichenbach, the son (=filius) [= Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, specialist Orchidaceae 1824-1889, son of Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, naturalist (1793-1879)].

- species enumerat 9, quarum tamen 2 nobis reducendae videntur, sed speciem novam insignem detexit Hook. f. in Sikkim, in ejusd. Ic. Pl. mox illustrandam (B&H), Bunge in Reliq. Lehm. 321 (145) counted up 9 species, yet 2 of which seem to us need to be reduced, but Hooker f. in Sikkim, soon to be illustrated in the same Icones Plantarum, discovered a remarkable new species.

NOTE: Sir William Jackson Hooker, author of the first 10 volumes of the Icones Plantarum, his son (Hooker f.) = Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, responsible for Vol. XI-XIX (Wikipedia, “Icones Plantarum” Sept. 1, 2018):

Cardamine hirsuta var. sylvatica (Link) Hook. f. & T. Anderson.

(from Fernald 1950):

Ait. f. = William Townsend Aiton [son of William Aiton]

Hall. f. = Gottlieb Emmanuel von Haller

Hedw. f. = Romanus Adolph Hedwig

L. f. = Carl von Linné [son of Carl von Linné, i.e. Carolus Linnaeus].

Pyrus arbutifolia (L.) L.f.

Lindm. f. = Carl Axel Magnus Lindman

Lindb. f. = Harald Lindberg

Lestib f. = Themistocle Lestiboudois

Michx. f. = Francois Andre Michaux [son of Andre Michaux]

Quercus borealis Michx. f.

Rech. f. = Karl Rechinger