GLOSSARY. 
57; the marginal flowers a head or 
m e; the ene stalks of an umbel. 
Radiate or Radiant : bearing rays; di- 
ine from a centre. 
Hasina ink or belonging to the root. 
Radicle, 103. 
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eceptacle, 61. $ * 
Reclining: leaning or falling to one side. 
See bent gradually backward. 
Refracted: bent abruptly backward, as if 
broken. 
Regular: of uniform shape and size. 
Reniform: see Kidney-shaped. 
Repand: wavy. 
Resupinate: turned upside down. ; 
Reticulate: disposed in little spaces, like 
network. a. 
Revolute: rolled backward. 
Rhizoma, 18. 
Rhombic or Rhomboidal: diamond- 
shaped. 
Ribs, 33; longitudinal ridges. 
Ribbed: bearing ribs. 
Root, 7. 
Rootlet, 7. 
Rootstock, 18. 
Rostrate: beaked. f 
Rotate: wheel-shaped ; with a short tube 
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udimentary: imper developed. - 
Runcinate: same as lyrate, but with the 
lobes directed backward. 
Runner, 23. 
Sagittate: arrow-shaped. 
Samara, 97. 
Scabrous: rough. 
Scales: reduced leaves, or any small 
and thin appendage. 
Scaly: beset with scales; of the texture 
of scales. ; 
Scape, 50. 
Scarious: very thin and colorless. 
Scurfy: covered with minute scales. 
Secund: one-sided. 
Seed, 99. 
oc one of the parts of a divided 
; Se. 
Sepal, 63. i i 
Septicidal, 89. 
Serrate: with the margin cut into teeth 
like a saw. 
ous: bristle-like. 
Sheath: the base of a leaf when it is 
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Silky: clothed with fine appressed shin- 
ing hairs. 
Silvery: white and shining. 
Simple: of one piece. ' 
Sinuate: with the margins cut into 
rounded incisions (sinuses) which are 
separated by rounded lobes. 
Solitary: standing alone. 
Sorus: the fruit cluster of ferns. 
Spadix, 54. 
Spathe, 54. 
Spatulate: dilated into a broad and 
rounded summit, from a slender base. 
Species, 111. i 
Specific: pertaining to a species. 
Spike, 52. 
Spikelet: a small spike, or a branch of a 
spike. 
Spindle-shaped: see Fusiform. 
Spine, 24. 
Spiny: armed with spines; spine-iike. 
Spiral Vessels, 5. à 
Sporangia: Flora, p. 585. 
Spores: Flora, p. 585. 
Spur: a hollow appendage of the calyx 
or the corolla. 
Spurred: furnished with a spur. 
Squarrose : covered with spreading 
Stem, 13. 
Stemless, 13. 
Sterile: unfruitful; imperfect. 
Stigma, 78. 
Stigmatic: belonging to the stigma. 
sape; the stalk of an ovary or of a fern- 
eaf. 
Stipel, 38. 
Stipellate: furnished with stipels. 
Stipule, 38. 
Stipulate: furnished with stipules. 
Stolon, 22. 
Stoloniferous: bearing stolons. 
Stomata, 33. 
Stra ped: long and flat, with par- 
allel margins. 
Striate: marked with fine furrows. 
mns : bristly with rigid appressed 
rs. 
Style. 
Subals : awl-shaped. 
Sulcate: ed with deep furrows. 
Suspended: ing. 
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genesious, 72. 
SEN, 115. ' 
