GLOSSARY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 
to which the flowers of grasses, 
ete., are attached 
Radiate, compound flowers in which 
the florets in the centre differ 
from those of the circumference 
Radical, issuing immediately from 
the root 
Radii, the outer florets of a radiate 
compound flower 
Ramose, branched 
Receptacle, the base upon which the 
other parts of a flower are placed 
Reclining, bent downwards so that 
the point of the leaf is lower than 
the base 
Recurved, curved downwards 
Reflected, bent back 
Reniform, kidney-shaped 
Repens, creeping 
Replicated, folded or plaited 
Reticulated, veined like network 
Revolute, rolled back 
Retroflexed, distorted 
Rhomboid-triangular, three-corner- 
ed, diamond-shaped 
Rhomboid-ovate, egg - diamond- 
shaped 
Ringent, gaping 
jp aed 3g leaves proceeding im- 
mediately from the root, without 
a stem 
Rostrate, beaked 
Rotate, wheel-shaped 
Rugose, wrinkled 
Runeinate, notched, the notches 
pointing backwards 
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Sagittate, arrow-shaped 
Salver-shaped, a blossom tubular at 
bottom, flat and expanding at 
top 
Scaber, rough like a file 
Scape, stalk 
Scions, shoots 
Scariose, skinny 
Semibifid, half-cleft 
Semicylindrical, half a eylinder di- 
vided lengthwise : 
Seminal leaves, arising immediately 
from the seed-lobes 
Serrated, toothed like a saw 
Serrulated, very minutely serrated 
Sessile, sitting 
Setaceous, bristle-shaped 
Setose, bristl 
Sexan , six-sided : 
Shaggy, rough, with stiff hairs 
XXXill 
Sheath, a membrane investing a 
stem or branch 
Shield, a circular kind of fructifica- 
tion of some lichens 
Shrubby, perennial with several 
woody stems 
Silicle, a little pod 
Silique, pod 
Simple, undivided 
Sitting, leaves having no leaf-stalk, 
or flowers without a fruit-stalk 
Spadix, sheathed fruit-stalk 
Spathe, sheath 
Spatulate, battledore-shaped 
Spike, sessile flowers placed alter- 
nately oneach side of thefruit-stalk 
Spikelet, a little spike 
Spindle-shaped, gradually tapering 
Spinose, thorny 
Sporidia, small, transparent bodies 
containing seeds 
Spur, shaped like the spur of a cock 
Squamose, scaly 
Stamens, long, slender bodies placed 
in the flower-cup round the pistil 
Standard, the upright petal of a 
butterfly-shaped blossom 
Stellate, starry, leaves surrounding 
the stem in a whorl 
Stem-leaves, growing immediately 
upon the stem 
Stigma, the summit of the pistil 
Stipes, the stalk of a fungus 
Stipitate, standing on a pedicle 
Stipule, small leaves or scales at 
the base of the leaf-stalk 
Stoloniferous, putting forth suckers 
Strap-shaped, foug and narrow 
Striated, scored with slender lines 
rtion of the 
stigma with 
Subulate, awl-shaped 
Succulent, juicy 
Subsessile, almost sessile 
Subfruticose, somewhat woody 
Summit, the top of the pistil 
Suture, seam 
Sword-shaped, long, narrow, and — 
pointed 
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Tendril, a spiral shoot = 
Terminal, ending in a branch or 
stem : 
