Flos

Flores, a. v. A flower. Singular of Floscule Floret. See Flour (flozrr)..-amount. Wheat flour contains starch, dextrin, cellulose, sugar, albumin, gliadin or gluten, mucin or mucedin, fibrin, cereal in, fat, mineral matter, and water. The first four are carbohydrates, or non-nitrogenous substances, and they form nearly three-fourths of the entire weight of the flour. The nitrogenous matter consists of at least five principles, three of which, gluten (or gliadin), mucin (or mucedin), and fibrin, constitute the bulk of the material known as crude gluten, which is the substance left when flour is kneaded with water and afterwards washed to remove the starch and any soluble substance. The remaining two nitrogenous principles, albumin and cereal in, are soluble in water, and are carried away with the starch in the proce of washing. Crude gluten po e es a peculiar adhesivene , arising from the presence of gliadin, which is a highly tenacious body, and which is not present in the same form in other cereal flours. The vegetable albumin is accompanied also by small amounts of legumin, or vegetable casein, which is also soluble in water. The cereal in is a soluble nitrogenized ferment occurring especially in the husk or bran of wheat and other cereals. It has a powerful fermentative action on starch, rapidly converting it into dextrin and other soluble bodies. The difference in the composition of: Fine White Flour. Coarse Wheat In one pound, 13.0 2 ozs.. 35 grs. I 14.0 j 2 ozs., 105 grs. Fibrin, etc.,. 1 oz., 297 grs 2 ozs., 175 grs. Starch, etc.,. 11 ozs., 388 grs Water,... Fat, 74-3 w In one pound. 7 ozs., 17 grs. 0 ozs., 57 grs. 0 ozs., 280 grs. 0.7 o ozs., 49 grs. 1 15-0 17.0 2 ozs., 316 grs. 0.7 I o ozs., 49 grs. 0.8 Cellulose,.. Mineral Bran. o ozs, 422 grs. matter, " " the several parts of the wheat-grain is seen in the foregoing table given by Church. F.-ball, a much used food for infants suffering from summer-complaint. It is made as follows Two or three pounds of wheat-flour, tied in a bag, are boiled continuously for 12 hours; the outer shell is then scraped - and the inner, yellow portion (mainly dextrin)!is grated and used to make a thin Flourens' Doctrine.