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Ramifications, subdivisions of root, branches, leaves, 
or panicles, 
Ramose, branched. 
Ramuli, twigs or small branches. 
in seeds this is the channel of vessels, 
which connects the chalaza with the 
hilum; in umbelliferous plants it is 
the line of junction, of the two halves 
of which their fruit is composed. 
Receptacle, that part of the fructification which sup- 
ports the other parts. 
Recess, 
Recesses, 
Rectilinear, straight lines. 
Reclinate, sant E 
Reclinated, } leaning back. 
Reclinately-erect, at first leaning back, then erect. 
Recumbent, lying upon the ground. 
Recurved, curved backwards. 
Reflexed, bent backwards. 
Refracted, bent back. 
Refrigerant, producing coolness. 
Reniform, Kidney-shaped. i 
Reniform-cordate, between kidney-shaped and heart- 
shaped. ; 
Repand, a leaf having its margin undulated and un- 
equally dilated, is said to be repand. 
Repandly-angular, repand and angular. 
Repand-crenated, 
Repand-serrated, 
Repand-toothed, 
Repandly-toothed, 
Repandously-toothed, 
Repellant, that which drives away any thing. 
Replicate, folded back. 
Reptant, creeping and rooting. 
Rite \ having the power to dissolve. 
Resupénate, inverted in position, so that that which 
was in front becomes the back. 
Reticulated, resembling a net, usually applied to the 
veins and nerves. 
Raphe, 
Raphis, 
) the bays or sinuses of lobed leaves, 
toothed, serrated, crenated, 
and undulated. 
Reticulately-areolate, having areolæ disposed like 
net-work. 
Reticulately-nerved, 
net-work. 
Reticulately-veined, the veins disposed in the manner 
of a net. 
Retracted,drawn inorlying between things; bent back. 
Retrofracted, bent backwards. 
Retrofleced, bent backwards, l 
Retrograde, usually applied to hairs when they are 
bent back or down, instead of forward or up. 
Retuse, appearing as if bit off at the end, abruptly 
obtuse. 
Revolute, rolled back, usually applied to the edges 
of leaves. 
Raamat ) applied to roots which spread under 
Rhysoma, ground, as the roots of Iris. 
Rhizomatose, 
Rhysomatose; J 
Rhomb, ` 
Rhomboid, 
Rhomboidal, 
having nerves disposed like 
having rhizoma. 
> shape of rhombus. 
between rhomboid and egg- 
shaped, between rhom- 
boid and lanceolate, and 
between rhomboid and 
spatulate. 
Rib, the projecting vein of any thing. 
Ribbed, having projecting veins. 
Rigid, stiff. 
Rimose, having a lon 
Rhombh-orate, 
Rhomboid-orate, 
Rhomboid-lanceolate, 
Rhomb-spatulate, 
gitudinal fissure or fissures, 
chinky. 
Ringent, gaping. 
Ringing, making an 
incision resembling a ring 
round a branch. i 
Rosellate, \ applied to leaves when they are disposed 
Rosulate, in the manner of the petals of a rose. 
Rotate, a monopetalous corolla, the limb of which is 
flat, and the tube very short, is called rotate, or 
wheel-shaped. 
GLOSSARY. 
Roundish-deltoid, form between orbicular and deltoid. 
Roundish-obovate, roundly obovate, 
Roundish-cordate, roundly cordate. 
Roundish-ovate, roundly egg-shaped. o 
Rubefacient, any thing which reddens the skin, and 
raises slight cutaneous inflammation. 
Rudiment, when an organ is imperfectly developed, 
botanists call such a rudiment, but sometimes 
the permanent parts of the leaves are called rudi- 
ments of these leaves, 
Rufescent, rather rusty. 
Rufescently-tomentose, covered with rusty down. 
Rufous, reddish orange-colour, or rusty. 
Rugosities, protuberances. 
Rugose, rough or coarsely wrinkled. 
Rugoso-striated, having wrinkled stripes. 
Rugulose, finely wrinkled. 
Runcinate, applied to the lobes of leaves, a leaf 
irregularly lobed, the lobes gradually diminish- 
ing to the base, and hooked back. 
Runcinately-pectinate, runcinate and pectinate. 
Runcinately-pinnatifid, pinnatifid, with the lobes 
hooked back. 
Runcinately-toothed, hooked back, and toothed. 
Runcinately-lyrate, lyrate, with the lobes hooked back. 
Runners, procumbent shoots, which root at their 
extremity. 
Running into, a leaf is said to run down into the 
petiole, or down the stem, when it extends down 
the petiole or stem, also applied to the calyx 
when it runs gradually into the pedicel. 
Ruptured, appearing as if burst. 
Rusty-tomentose, covered with rusty tomentum. 
S. 
Saccate, bagged, having a bag or pouch, as in many 
petals and sepals. 
Sack-formed, formed like a sack or pouch. 
Sagittate, shaped like the head of an arrow. 
Sagittate and Sagittately, when joined by a hyphen 
to another word, signifies a form between the two 
words, as sagittate-cordate, sagittate-lanceolate. 
Salivation, a discharge of saliva from the glands of 
the mouth. 
Samara, a kind of winged seed-vessel, the same as 
what the English call a key, such as those of ash 
and sycamore. 
Samaroid, having a seed-vessel like a samara. 
Sapid, agreeable to the palate. 
Saponaceous, soapy. 
Sarcocarp, the most fleshy part of fruit under the 
epicarp. 
Sarmentose, 
twigs. 
Sawed, cut in such a manner as to resemble the 
teeth of a saw. 
Scabrous, rough from little asperities, 
Scale-formed, formed like scales. 
Seales, any small processes resembling minute leaves 
or scales; also the leaves of the involucrum in 
composite; also the appendages at the top of 
the claws of the petals in Caryophyllee. 
Scandent, climbing. 
Scape, a stem rising from the root, 
nothing but the flowers, 
bracteas. 
Scarious, 
Scariose. \ membranous and dry. 
Scattered, without regularity. 
Schistous, formed of the rock called Schist. 
Scion, a shoot intended for a graft. 
Scolloped, having deep and wide indentations. 
Scoriu, cinders, ashes, 
Scrobiculate, excavated into little pits or hollows. 
Scrotiform, formed like a double bag. 
Scurfy, covered with scales resembling scurf. 
Scutate, formed like an ancient round buckler, 
Secund, arranged on one side only. 
Segments, parts of any thing. 
Semi, half. 5 
producing sarmenta, or runners and 
and bearing 
or sometimes a few 
Semi-cordate, half-cordate. 
Semi-orbicular, half-circular. 
Semi-sagittate, half arrow-shaped. 
Seminal, of or belonging to the seed. 
Seminiferous, bearing seed. 
Sepals, the divisions of the calyx. 
Sepalled, having sepals. — 
Separable, that which is divisible. i ; 
Septa, the partitions which divide the interior parts 
of the fruit, the dissepiments. 
Septiferous, bearing septa or partitions. 
Series, a row, a layer. 
Sericeous, silky. ; 
Sericeously-velvety, velvety and silky. 
Serrate, } like the teeth of a saw. 
Serrated, 
Serratures, the teeth of a serrated leaf. 
Serrate-toothed, having teeth like a saw. 
Serrulated, having notches like those of a very fine 
saw. 
Serrate-crenate, having notches between serratures 
and crenatures, 
Serrulations, notchings like those of a very fine saw. 
Sessile, without stalks. . 
Setaceous, 
Setacious, . 
Setaceously-toothed, having teeth like bristles. 
Setaceously-pilose, covered with stiff bristle-like 
hairs. 
Sete, bristles. 
Setiform, formed like bristles. 
Setigerous, bearing bristles. 
Setose, covered with bristles. 
Setosely-prickly, covered with 
prickles, 
Sheath, the lower part of the leaf that surrounds 
the stem. . 
Sherds, fragments of pots, employed by gardeners 
to drain their flower-pots. 
Shield, a broad table-like process in the flower of 
Stapelia and its allies. , 
Short-acuminated, having a short taper point. 
Shortly-bifid, \ slightly cleft in two parts at the 
Shortly-2-cleft, apex. . 
Sialagogue, having the power of exciting saliva. 
Siliceous, flinty.* 
Silicle, small short pod of Crucifere. 
Siliculose, form of a silicle, a silicle. 
Silique, the long terete pod of Crucifere. 
Siliquose, form of a silique, a silique. 
Silky-puberulous, 
Silky-pubescent, 
Silky-tomentose, 
Silky-villous, covered with silky hairs. 
Simple, the reverse of compound, not divided. 
Sinuate, } cut in such a manner as to appear 
Sinuater, y bending in and out. 
E angled in a sinuated manner. 
Sinuately-lobed, lobed in a sinuated manner. 
Sinuately-3-lobed, lobed with three sinuated lobes. 
Sinuately-pinnatifid, sinuated and pinnatifid, between 
Sinuate and pinnatifid. 
Sinuately-curled, sinuate and curled. . 
Sinuately-repand, scolloped and undulated. 
Sinuately-runcinate, between scolloped and runci- 
nate. 
Sinuate-toothed, 
Sinuately-toothed, ner. > 
Sinus, the bays or recessés formed by the lobes of 
leaves and other bodies. 
Smooth, without hairs and smooth. 
Smoothed, without hairs and glossy. 
Soboliferous, producing young plants from the root. 
Soddened, soaked. S young p 
Somniferous, causing sleep. 
Soporific, causing sleep. 
Sorediferous, bearing soredia. 
ri, the patches of fructification on the back of 
the fronds of ferns. 
Spacelate, withered or dead. 
Spadiz, a spike protracted from a spath. 
\ resembling a bristle in shape. 
stiff bristle-like 
covered with silky pubescence 
or tomentum. 
toothed in a sinuated man- 
