Rostellate 



A DICTIONARY 



Ruminated 



double rose, as the leaves of 

 the dandelion or those upon 

 the short spurs of the larch. 



RDS'TEL, see Rostellum. 



ROSTELLATE, diminutive of 

 Rostrate, having a small beak. 



ROSTEL'LLFORM, beak -shaped, 

 especially when the process is 

 small; rostriform. 



RflSTEL'LUM (pi. RosteTla), a 

 little beak; especially, the 

 process upon the column in 

 orchids containing the disk 

 (retinaculum) of the pollinia. 

 It is one of the three united 

 styles which has become mod- 

 ified for this purpose. 



RdS' TR ATE, see Beaked. 



R6S' TRIFORM, beak-shaped. 



R6S'TRUM, see Beak. 



RO'SULA (obs.), see Rosette. 



RO'SULAR (obs.), see Rosulate. 



RO'SULATE, arranged or shaped 

 like a rosette; having the 

 leaves in little tufts like the 

 petals of a double rose, as 

 those of the daudelion. 



ROTATE, wheel - shaped. In 

 flowers, applied to a gamo- 

 petalous corolla with a very 

 short tube and nearly flat 

 spreading border. 



RO'TATE-PLANE, gamopetalous, 

 with a flat border and no tube. 



ROTATION, a flowing movement 

 of the protoplasmic cell -fluid; 

 cyclosis; streaming. In some 

 active or growing cells the 

 movement is readily visible 

 as distinct currents having a 

 rotary or back-and- forth direc- 

 tion. The term Cyclosis is now 

 well established, and is perhaps 

 preferable to Rotation as a gen- 

 eral term, the latter word being 

 applied especially to circula- 

 tion next the cell-wall, to a 

 rotation of the whole mass 



within the cell, or to a pecu- 

 liar spiral movement of the 

 cell-fluid in certain plants, as 

 in Chara. 



RO'TlFORM (obs.), see Rotate. 



ROTUND', rounded; somewhat 

 orbicular. 



ROUGH, see Scabrous. 



ROUGH LEAVE§, a gardener's 

 term for the true leaves which 

 succeed the cotyledons. 



RUBES'CENT, reddish or rosy; 

 rubicund. 



RU'BiCUND, see Rubescent. 



RUBl6'LN0SE, of the color of iron- 

 rust; brownish red; rubiginous; 

 rufous; rusty; ferruginous. 



RUBlG'fNOUS, see Rubiginose. 



RU'DERAL, growing in rubbish 

 or waste places. 



RU'DlMENT, an imperfectly de- 

 veloped, vestigal, or aborted 

 part. 



RUDIMEN'TAL, see Rudimen- 

 tary. 



RUDiMEN'TARY, imperfectly de- 

 veloped, or in an early stage of 

 development; rudiniental. 



RUFES'CENT, somewhat rufous. 



RUF'FLED, sometimes applied to 

 a margin when very strongly 

 waved. — 



RU'FOUS, see Rubiginose. 



RU'GA, a wrinkle. 



RUG'GED (obs.), see Scabrous. 



RUGOSE', wrinkled, as the leaves 

 of sage. Compare Bullate 

 and Crisp. 



RU GULOSE, slightly rugose. 



RU'MLNATED, said of the albu- 

 men or cotyledons of a seed 

 which has holes or channels 

 into which the inner seed-coat 

 penetrates, as in the papaw 

 and nutmeg. 



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