GLOSSARY 



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Radiant. With the marginal flowers 

 enlarged and ray-like. 



Radiate. Bearing ray-flowers: spreading 

 from or arranged around a common 

 center. 



Radical. Belonging to the root, or ap- 

 parently coming from the root. 



Radicle. The rudimentary stem of the 

 embryo; hypocotyl. 



Rameal. Belonging to a brancli. 



Ramiiication. Branching. 



Raij. One of the pedmicles or branches 

 of an umbel; the flat marginal flowers 

 in Compositae. 



Receptacle. The end of the flower stalk, 

 bearing the floral organs ; or, in Composi- 

 tae, bearmg the flowers; also in some 

 ferns, an axis bearing sporanges. 



Reclined. Turned or curved downwards. 



Recurred. Curved backwards. 



Reflexed. Bent backward abruptly. 



Regular. Having the members of each 

 part alike in size and shape. 



Reniform. Kidney-shaped. 



Repand. With a somewhat wavy mar- 

 gin. 



Replicate. That form of vernation in 

 which the apex of the leaf is bent back- 

 ward toward the base. 



Re plum. The septum of certain pods 

 that persists after the valves have fal- 

 len away. 



Resiniferous. Producing resin. 



Reticulate. In the form of network. 



Retrorse. Directed back or downward. 



Retuse. With a shallow notch at a 

 rounded apex. 



Revolute. Rolled backward. 



Rhaceola. The prolongation of the secon- 

 dary axis at the spikelets of sedges, 

 within the perigynium; compare ra- 

 chilla. 



Rhachis. See Rachis. 



Rhizome. See Rootstock. 



Rhombic, Rhomboidal. Somewhat lozenge- 

 shaped; obliquely four-sided. 



Rib. A primary or prominent vein of a 

 leaf. 



Ringent. Gaping, as the mouth of an 

 open bilabiate corolla. 



Rostellum. Beak of the style in Orcliids. 



Rostrate. Bearing a beak or a prolonged 

 appendage. 



Rosulate. In the form of a rosette. 



Rosuliferous. Bearing rosettes. 



Rotate (corolla). Wheel-shaped; flat and 

 circular in outline. 



Rotund. Rounded in outline. 



Rudiment. A very partially developed 

 organ; a vestige. 



Rudimentary. Imperfectly developed, or 

 in an early stage of development. 



Rufous. Reddish brown. 



Rugose. Wrinkled. 



Runcinate. Sharply pinnatifld or incised, 

 the lobes or segments turned backward. 



Runner. A flUform or very slender stolon. 



Sac. A pouch, especially the cavities of 



anthers. 

 Saccate. Like a sac or pouch; furnished 



with a sac. 

 Sagittate. Like an arrow-head, with the 



lobes turned downward. 

 Salver-shaped (corolla). Having a slender 



tube abruptly expanded into a flat limb. 

 Samara. An indeliiscent winged fruit. 

 Saprophyte. A plant which grows on 



dead organic matter. 

 Scabrous. Rough to the touch. 



Scale. A minute, rudimentary, or vestig- 

 ial leaf. 



Scape. A peduncle rising from the ground, 

 naked or without proper foliage. 



Scapose. Bearing or resembling a scape. 



Scarious. Thin, dry, and translucent, not 

 green. 



Scorpioid. Coiled up in the bud, or in the 

 beginning of growth, unrolling in ex- 

 panding. 



Scrobiculate. Possessing minute or shal- 

 low depressions. 



Secund. Borne along one side of an axis. 



Segment. One of the parts of a leaf or 

 other like organ tliat is cleft or divided. 



.Semi- (in compounds) means half. 



Sepal. One of the leaves of a calyx. 



Septate. Divided in compartments by 

 cross-partitions. 



Septicidnl (capsule). Dehiscing through 

 the partitions and between the cells. 



Septum (phiral septa). A partition, as of 

 a pod, etc. 



Sericeous. SUky; clothed with satiny 

 pubescence. 



Serrate. Having teeth pointing forward. 



Serrulate. Finely serrate. 



Sessile. Without a stalk. 



Seta {-ae). A bristle, or a slender body re- 

 sembUng a bristle. 



Setaceous. Bristle-like. 



Setose. Bristly. 



Selulose. Having minute bristles. 



Sheath. A tubular envelope, as the lower 

 part of the leaf in grasses. 



Sheathing. Enclosing as by a sheath. 



Silicle. A short silique. 



Silique. The peculiar pod of Brassicaceae. 



Sinuate. Strongly wavy. 



Sinus. The cleft or recess between two 

 lobes. 



Smooth. Without rougluiess. 



Sobol, Sobole. A creeping underground 

 stem. 



Soboliferous. Bearing xuiderground mostly 

 horizontal branches. 



Sorus (pi. Sori). A heap or cluster, ap- 

 plied to the fruit-dots of ferns. 



Spadiceous. Like or pertaming to a spa- 

 dix. 



Spadix. A fleshy spike of flowers. 



Spathaceous. Resembling a spathe, fur- 

 nished with a spathe. 



Spathe. A bract, usually more or less 

 concave, subtending a spadix. 



Spalulate. Shaped like a spatula; spoon- 

 shaped. 



Spermatozoid. A motile ciliated male re- 

 productive cell. 



Spicate. Arranged in or resembling a spike. 



Spiciform. Spike-like. 



Spike. An elongate flower-cluster, with 

 sessile or nearly sessile flowers. 



Spikelet. Diminutive of spike; especially 

 apphed to flower-clusters of grasses and 

 sedges. 



Spine. A sharp woody or rigid outgrowth 

 from the stem. 



Spinescent. Tipped by or degenerating 

 into spines or thorns. 



Spinose. Thorny; with spines or similar 

 to spines. 



Spiricle. DeUcate coUed tliread on the 

 surface of seeds and achenes. 



Spirilliferous. Bearing or having spiricles. 



Spirillum (-a). A little coil, spiricle. 



Sporange, Sporangium (-a). A sac contain- 

 ing sporas. 



Spore. The reproductive organ in Cryp- 

 togams wliich corresponds to a seed. 



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