APPENDIX. ThAD 
Recerracute. (1.) The more or less expanded or produced apex of the peduncle, 
upon which the floral envelopes, stamens, and pistil are inserted. (2.) The 
short conical or convex axis bearing the florets in the flower-heads of 
Composite. 
ReciinatTe. With an erect or ascending base, but with the upper portion turned 
or bent downwards. 
Recurvep. Curved backwards or downwards. 
RepDvupLicaTE. Doubled back; in estivation applied when the margins are 
valvate and reflexed. 
REFLEXED. Bent abruptly down or backwards. 
Reeuiar. Symmetrical or uniform in shape or structure. 
Rentrorm. Kidney-shaped. 
Repanp. With the margin slightly sinuate or wavy. 
Repium. A frame-like placenta left by the falling of the valves in the dehiscence 
of the pods of some Crucifere and Leguminose, &c.; particularly obvious 
in Carmichaelia. 
Rericunats. Provided with markings or venation resembling network. 
Rerrorse. Directed backwards or downwards. 
Retuse. Having a rounded apex with a shallow notch at the centre. 
Reyouutse. Having the margins or apex rolled backwards. 
Ruacumia. The axis of the spikelet in grasses. 
Ruacuis. The axis of an inflorescence, or of a compound leaf or frond. 
Ruaizome. A prostrate or underground rootstock or stem, giving out roots 
below, the apex progressively sending up leaves or stems, sometimes short 
and tuberous. 
Ruomepic. Obliquely four-sided. 
Ruomeor, RHompBorpaL. Approaching a rhombic outline; quadrangular with 
the sides oblique. 
Ris. A primary or prominent nerve or vein. 
RieseD. Furnished with prominent ribs. . 
Rier. Stiff and inflexible. 
Riycent. Gaping; as a labiate corolla with an open throat. 
RostTEeLLate. Having a small beak; the diminutive of “rostrate.’ 
RostEeLLuM. A viscid portion of the column in Orchidee, answering to the 
abortive anterior lobe of the stigma. 
Rostrate. Beaked; gradually narrowed into a rather long slender point. 
Rosutate. Collected into a rosette. 
Rotate. Wheel-shaped ; applied to a gamopetalous corolla with a short tube 
and flat spreading limb. 
Rupiment. Any imperfectly developed and functionally useless organ. 
Rurovus. Reddish; pale-red mixed with brown. 
Rueoss. Wrinkled ; covered with wrinkled lines or ridges. 
RucouLose. Somewhat wrinkled. 
RumINATED. Having the appearance of being chewed, as the albumen of the 
nutmeg. 
Runeryate. Applied to a pinnatifid leaf in which the lobes or segments point 
towards the base of the leaf. 
Saccatse. Pouch-shaped ; furnished with a sac or pouch-like cavity. 
SacirrarE. Shaped like the head of an arrow; triangular, with two basal lobes 
prolonged downwards. 
Sarcocarp. The fleshy or succulent part of a drupe or stone-fruit. 
SARMENTOSE. Producing long and flexible twigs or runners. 
ScABERULOUS. Somewhat rough or scabrous. 
Scasrip. Slightly rough. 
Scasrovus. Rough to the touch; furnished with minute points or asperities. 
Scare. A name usually applied to variously modified bracts or depauperated 
leaves, thin and scarious or coriaceous or fleshy, often imbricated. 
