FIAT

(Lat.) In Law, a short order or warrant of some judge for making out certain proce es, . FuT In Bankruptcy. See Bankruptcy, rrBRE. One of the two bases of all vegetable structures. It may be compared to a hair in inconceivable finene , its diameter often not exceeding -^'j^jOfaninch; also the name of the finer divisions of roots. FIBRIL LiE. In Botany, the minute subdivisions of the root, each being a small bundle of annular ducts, or sometimes of spiral ve els incased in woody ti ue covered by a lax cellular integument, and in "direct communication with the vascular system of the root. The apex is composed of lax cellular ti ue and mucus. [s. 462]