retinerred 



Bhegma 



like a hook, and retains the seed till 

 mature, 

 retiner'ved, rethier'vis, retiner'vius 

 {rete, a net ; iiervHS, a nerve), net- 

 veined. 

 Betort' Cells, special enlarged cuticu- 

 lar cells with an apex more or less 

 recurved in Sphagnum. 

 retrac'tus (Lat., drawn back), when 

 cotyledons are so far prolonged at 

 their base as completely to hide the 

 radicle, 

 retrocur'ved, rctrocnr'vus, retrocurva' - 

 tus {retro, ! ackward ; curvus, curved), 

 recurved, bent back ; retroflex'cd, 

 retroflrx'us (Lat.), bent back, re- 

 flexed ; retrofrac'ted, rctrofrac'txis 

 (Lat.), refracted. 

 Betrogn^es'sion {retrogrcssus^ a move- 

 ment bac'cward), reversion or de- 

 velopment towards simpler organiza- 

 tion ; retrogres'sive, (1) decadent in 

 structure, (2) when a stable plant- 

 formation is due to past climat'c 

 factors (Crampton) : '^ Metamorph'- 

 osis, in teratology the occurrence of 

 organs of lower grade in place of 

 the normal structures, as pistils 

 converted into stamens or petals ; 

 '-' Huta'tion, when an active cha- 

 racter becomes latent (De Vries) ; 



Cf. KKGRESSIVK. 



retrorse', relror'sum (Lat.), directed 

 backward or downward ; retror'sely 

 acu'leate, with prickles turned back 

 or down, as in Galimn Aparine, Linn. 



retroier'rate {retro, backward ; ser- 

 rcUiis, sawed) = runcinate ; retro- 

 ver'ted, retrover'sus, inverted ; 

 Betrover'sio (Lat. ), an inversion. 



Bet'ting, the steeping of flax or hemp 

 in water to obtain the fibro-vascular 

 portion freed from the cellular. 



retuse', retu'sns (Lat., blunted) with 

 a shallow notch at a rounded apex. 



revect'ns ( Lat. ). carried back ; cf. 

 Septum. 



rever8ed^ rever'sus (Lat. , turned back), 

 upside down, resupinate ; Bever'- 

 tion, liever'sio, a change backward, 

 as to an earlier condition ; -- Shoots, 

 exhibiting the young or larval form 

 of foliage. 



revolunbilis (Lat.), capable of being 

 rolled back ; rev'olute, revolu'tus 

 (Lat.), rolled back from the margin 

 or apex ; revoluti'vus (Lat ), in 

 aestivation when the edges roll 

 back spirally on each side, as in 

 Rosemary. 



BevoI'ver Flow'ers. Kerner's term for 

 those flowers "which exhibit within 

 their outer portals a number of fine 

 tubes resembling the barrels of a 



revolver." 

 revorving Nuta't oi (Sachs), = CiR- 



CUMXUTATION. 



Bhabarb'arin, a proximate principle 

 of rhubarb ; rhabarbari'nus, rhu^ 

 barb-coloured, the colour of the 

 officinal root, orange brown. 

 rhabdocar'pous (^<£65or, a staff"; Kapirhs, 

 fruit), long-fruited ; fruits shaped 

 like a rod ; Bhab'doid (elSos re- 

 semblance), a rod-shaped body found 

 in the cells of the tentacles of Dro- 

 sera, and in the mesophyll cells of 

 Dionaea, becoming more spherical 

 on stimulation ; Bhab'dolith {Kidos, 

 a stone), a detached portion of a 

 Bhab'dosphere {arcpalpa, a sphere), 

 applied to certain pelagic Algae, 

 Hhabdosphaera titbifer and E. da- 

 viger, G. Murr. and Blackm. 

 Bhab'dus J, the stipe of some Fungi 



(Lindley). 

 Bhache'ola {f>dxis, a backbone), = 

 Bhachiria, a secondary axis in the 

 inflorescence of grasses ; Bha'chis, 

 Rach'is, the axis of an inflorescence 

 or compound leaf or frond, 

 rhacimcr'phous, see racimorphous. 

 rhag'adicse {l^ayds, a chink), cracked 



or fissured. 

 rhamna'ceoas, resembling or belong- 

 ing to llhamnaceae ; Bham'nase, an 

 enzyme acting upon glucosides which 

 occurs in the berries of Hhamnus 

 infedoria, Linn. ; Bham'nin, the 

 colouring matter of the same fiuit. 

 Bhaph'e (^a^)?, a seam), usually spelled 



Raphe. 

 Bhaph'is, pi. Bhaph'ides (^a^is, a 

 needle), more usually occurring as 

 Raphis and Raphides. 

 Bhe'gma, = Regma. 



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