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Iteluse. Having a slight notch in the end, less than emarginate. 



Reversed. Bent back towards the base. 



Rev'olute. Rolled backward or outward. 



Rhomboid. Diamond-form. 



Rib. A nerve-like support to a leaf. 



Rigid. Stiff, not pliable. 



Ring. The band around the capsules of ferns. 



Ringent. Gaping or grinning ; a term belonging to the labiate corollas. 



Root. The descending part of a vegetable. 



Rootlet. A fibre of a root, a little root. 



Rosa'ceous. A corolla formed of roundish spreading petals, without 



claws, or with very short ones. 

 Rose'ous. Rose soloured. 

 Rustel. That pointed part of the embryo which tends downward at 



the first germination of the seed. 

 Rostrate. Having a protuberance like a bird's beak. 

 Rotate. Wheel-form. 

 Rotun'dus. Round. 

 Rubra. Red. 

 Rufous. Reddish yellow. 

 Rugose. Wrinkle'd. 



Run'cinate. Having large teeth pointing backwards, as the dandelion. 

 Rupes'tris. Growing among rocks, 



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Sagit'tate. Arrow-form. 



Sali'ferous. Bearing or producing salt. 



Salsus. Salt tasted. 



Salver-form. Corolla with a flat spreading border proceeding from 

 the top of a tube ; flower monopetalous. 



Sam'ara. A winged pericarp not opening by valves, as the maple. 



Sap. The watery fluid contained in the tubes and little cells of vege- 

 tables. 



Sapor. Having taste. 



Sarmen'tose. Running on the ground and striking root from the joint 

 only, as the strawberry. 



Sar'cocarp, (from sarz, flesh, and karpos, fruit.) The fleshy part of 

 fruit. 



Sca'ber, or Scabrous. Rough. 



Scandens. Climbing. 



Scape. A stalk which springs from the root, and supports flowers and 

 fruit but no leaves, as the dandelion. 



Sca'rious. Having a thin membranous margin. 



Scattered. Standing without any regular order. 



Scions. Shoots proceeding laterally from the roots or bulb of a root. 



Segment^ A part or principal division of a leaf, calyx, or corolla. 



Sempervi'rens. Living through the winter, and retaining its leaves 



Sep'al. A leaf of the calyx. 



Serrate. Notched like the teeth of a saw. 



Serrulate. Minutely serrate. 



