Ancient Geography, a town of Etruria, on the Arno; of great note in Sylla's wars. Now called Firenze or Fiorenza by the Italians; Florence in English. E. Long. 11. Lat. 43. 30.

Florentine marble. See Citadinesca.

Florescentia (from floresco, "to flourish or bloom"); the act of flowering, which Linnæus and the sexualists compare to the act of generation in animals; as the ripening of the fruit in their opinion resembles the birth. See Flower.

Florid style, is that too much enriched with figures and flowers of rhetoric.