GLOSSARY. 



Baya 67; the marginal Bowers a head or 

 cyme; the partial stalks of an umbel. 



Radiate or Radiant: bearing rays j di- 

 verging from ;l r <-'" tlv - 



Radical: near or belonging to the root. 



Ra licle, L03. 



Raphe, 83. 



Receptacle, 61. ., 



Reclining: leaning or falling to one side. 



l e ™™ 3: { bent graduaUy backward. 

 Kenexed: | 



Refracted: bent abruptly backward, as it 



broken. 

 Regular: of uniform shape and size. 

 Reniform: see Kidney-shaped. 

 Repand: wavy. 



Resupinate: turned upside down. 

 Reticulate: disposed in little spaces, like 



network. 

 Revolute: rolled backward. 

 Rhizoma, IS. 

 Rhombic or Rhomboidal : diamond- 



shaped. 

 liilis. 33; longitudinal ridges. 

 Ribbed: bearing ribs. 

 Root, 7. 

 Rootlet. 7. 

 Rootstock, 18. 

 Rostrate: beaked. 

 Rotate: wheel-shaped: with a short tubo 



and a spreading limb. 

 Rudimentary: imperfectly developed. 

 Rugose: uneven; wrinkled. 

 Ruminated (albumen) : divided into 



Lobes. 

 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, 

 v 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. 

 Segment: one of the parts of a divided 



leaf, &c. 

 Sepal, 63. 



ticidal, 89.- 

 Serrate: with the margin cut into teeth 



like a saw. 

 Serrulate : finely serrate. 

 Sessile : not raised on a stalk. 

 Setaceous : bristle-like. 

 Sheath: the base of a leaf when it is 



wrapped round the stem. 

 Sheathing : enclosing the stem like a 



sheath. 

 Shield-shaped: see Peltate. 

 Shrub, 26. 

 Silicle and Silique, 90. 



Silky: clothed with fine appressed shin- 

 ing hairs. 



Silvery: white and shining. 



Simple: of our 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. 



Specific; pertaining to a species. 



>pike, 52. 



Spikelet: a small spike, or a branch of a 

 spike. 



Spindle-shaped: see Fusiform. 



Spine, 24. 



Spiny: armed with spines; spine-like. 



Spiral Vessels, 5. 



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 

 scales. 



Stamen, 69. 



Staminate: bearing stamens. 



Standard: Flora, p. 86. 



Stellate or Stellar : radiating from a 

 common centre. 



Stem, 13. 



Stemless, 13. 



Sterile: unfruitful; imperfect. 



Stigma, 78. 



Stigmatic : belonging to the stigma. 



Stipe : the stalk of an ovary or of a fern- 

 leaf. 



Stipel, 38. 



Stipellate : furnished with stipels. 



Stipule, 38. 



Stipulate: furnished with stipules. 



Stolon, 22. 



Stoloniferous: bearing stolons. 



Stomata, 33. 



Strap-shaped : long and flat, with par- 

 allel margins. 



Striate: marked with fine furrows. 



Strigose : bristly with rigid appressed 

 hairs. 



Strobile, 98. 



Style, 77. 



Subulate : awl-shaped. 



Sulcate: marked with deep furrows. 



Suspended : hanging. 



Suture, 80. 



Sj agenesious, 72. 



System, 115. 



Tap-root, 8. 

 Tendril, 25. 



Terete: cylindrical; round. 

 Ternate : " of three leaflets ; three in a 

 whorl. 



