Beorientatioii 



Besinosis 



Eeorienta'tion (+ Orientation), 

 alteration of relative position of 

 organs. 



Bepair^ making good, as -- of Waste, 

 restoring the spent material. 



repand^ repan'dus, repan'dons (Lat., 

 bent backwards), with slightly un- 

 even margin, less so than "sinuous." 



repar'ative {reparo^ I repair) Steles, 

 four bands corresponding to the four 

 orthostichies of leaves, in Psaronius 

 (Scott). 



ra'pent, re'pens (Lat., creeping), pros- 

 trate and rooting. 



Bepi'um [? Rhepi^m] (^«ir(B, I sink), 

 succession of plants on soils which 

 have subsided (Clements). 



Bepla'eement, a theory of fertilization 

 which assumes that the female cell 

 gets rid of certain elements which 

 leaves it an imperfect cell until 

 fusion with the male cell replaces 

 them. 



Beple'tnm {replettts, filled), a fruit 

 with the valves connected by 

 threads, persistent alter dehiscence, 

 such as in Orchids, Aristolochia, and 

 some Papaveraceae. 



rep'licate, replica' tus (Lat., folded 

 back), (1) doubled down, so that the 

 upper part comes against the lower ; 

 (2) employed by writers on Ascle- 

 piads, in the sense of reduplicate ; 

 rep'licative, replicati'vus=Te])\ic8ite. 



Se^plnin (Lat., door-case), (1) a frame- 

 like placenta from which the valves 

 fall away in dehiscence; (2) fre- 

 quently used so as to include the 

 septum of Cruciferae in the term. 



Beprodne'tion, increase (a) asexually 

 from one individual, (6) sexually 

 from two individuals or organs ; 

 reproduc'tive, applied to parts 

 which share in reproduction ; -*' 

 Cells, cells which have no power 

 of further vegetative development, 

 but by coalescence give rise to a 

 product which forms the starting 

 point of a new plant; -^ Or'g^s, 

 the parts especially concerned in the 

 production of seeds, spores, and 

 analogous bodies; in Phanerogams, 

 the stamens and pistils. 



Beprogress'ion (re, back; progrcssus, 

 advanced), when in an inflorescence, 

 the primordial flower at the summit 

 opens first, followed in succession 

 from the bottom upwards (Guillard). 



rep'tant, rep'tans (Lat., crawling), 

 REPENT ; creeping on the ground 

 and rooting. 



Bepuls'ion {repulsus, a driving back), 

 the opposite to Coupling; a mutual 

 avoidance by organisms or allelo- 

 morphs. 



Res herba'ria, (Lat.), the science of 

 plants; botany. 



Reserve' {reserves, laid up), a storage ; 

 ~ Cel'lulose, a special thickening 

 in the cells of seeds, such as the 

 date, which can be tmned to account 

 in germination as food material ; -' 

 Mate'rial, the plastic products of 

 metabolism, assimilated food material 

 in a resting condition, as starch and 

 other carbohydrates ; -^ Pro'teid, 

 nitrogenous substances stored in the 

 plant, as proteids, amides, etc. ; 

 -^ Tra'cheids, tracheid-like cells 

 from the parenchyma sheath, for 

 the storage of water (Heinricher). 



resirient {resiliensy springing back), 

 springing or bending back, as some 

 stamens. 



Res'in {resina, resin), a terra applied 

 to a group of oxydised hydrocarbons, 

 solidified or hardened turpentine, 

 and insoluble in water; '~ Cell, a 

 cell which secretes resin ; -- Ducts, 

 canals which contain fluid resin ; '~ 

 Flux, an unnatural and abundant 

 flow of resin caused by the attack of 

 Armillaria mellea, Sacc. on Conifers; 

 ~ Gland, a group of cells which form 

 resin ; - Glut = Rebin-Flux ; - 

 Fas'sage ; -^ Plates, found in conifers 

 most frequently in contact with the 

 medullary rays (Groom) ; <-' Tube, 

 an intercellular passage containing 

 resin, a resin-duct ; resinif erons, 

 -rus {fero, I hear), secreting resin ; 

 Res'inocysts [Kvans, a bag), hemi- 

 spheric structures in the cell-wall 

 of the hairs of the stem and leaf of 

 Begonia (Schoennett) ; Besino'sis = 

 Resin-Fltjx. 



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