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Rhombic, Rhomboida], diamond-shapede. 
Rootstock, a horizontal usually subterranean stem, 
Rostrate, beaked, 
Rotate, wheel-shaped, i,e., flat and circular, 
Rotund, rounded or circular in outline, 
Rudimentary, imperfectly or incompletely developed, 
Rugose, wrinkled. 
Runner, a stolon. 
Saccate, like a sac or pouch, 
Sagittate, like an arrow-head, the lobes projecting downward, not flaring. 
Samara, an indehiscent winged fruit as in the Maple. 
Saprophyte, a plant without chlorophyll which grows on dead organic matter, 
Scabrous, rough, 
Scale, a small rudimentary leaf suggesting a fish-scale; used in Carex to 
designate the bracts subtending each flower, 
Scape, a naked or nearly naked peduncle, usually thought of as arising from 
a basal tuft of leaves, Scapose, scape-like, 
Scarious, thin and translucent, usually dry like tissue paper, 
Scorpioid, coiled and unrolling like a fiddle-neck, 
Secund, borne along one side of an axis or apparently rm 
Seed, the ripened ovule consisting of the embryo and its proper coats. 
Sepal, one of the leaves of the calyx. 
Septate, divided bv cross partitions (septa). 
Septicidal, the type of dehiscence in which the chambers of a capsule are 
split apart but are themselves not necessarily split opens opposed 
to loculicidal, 
Septum, a partition, 
Sericeous, silky or satiny. 
Serrate, toothed like a saw, the teeth leaning forward. Serrulate, finely 
serrate. 
