fascicle (fasikl)

[F. fascicule, a part of a book published in numbers, = Sp. fasciculo = small bundle of h Pg. fasciculo, a herbs, = It. fascicolo, a number of a book, fascis, a bundle: see fascis.] A bundle; a small collection or connected group; a cluster. Specifically (a) In bot.: (1) A close clus ter, as of leaves, flowers, etc.: sometimes limited in use to a condensed cyme. Fascicle of Flowers of the Mallow. (From Le Maout and Decaisne's "Traité général de Botanique.") Flowers. diversified with tints of orange-scarlet, of pale yellow, or of bright orange, which grows deeper every day, and forms a variety of shades according to the age of each blo om that opens in the fascicle . Sir W. Jones, Select Indian Plants. (2) In mo es, the ti ue of elongated cells taking the place of fibrovascular bundles in the nerves, etc. (b) In zoöl. and an at., a fasciculus. (c) A part of a printed work; a Also, in all senses, fasciculus. small number of printed or written sheets bound together. Whole fascicles there are, wherein the Profe or not once named is ering in the supra spin at us muscle. Temporal fascia fascicular (fa-sik'ū-lär), a . [ fasciculus + fascia attached upper temporal above and the zygoma below, covering the temporal muscle, and fur-- ar2 .] Same as fasciculate . - Fascicular system, nishing on its inner side attachment to some of the fibers in bot . , same as fibrovascular system (which see, under fibro- of that muscle. vascular). Fascicular i a