BOTANICAL NAMES 185 



Rufescens (roo-fes-ens). L. adj., " turning red." 



Second hot. name. 



Rufus (roo-fus). L. adj., " red." Second hot. name. 

 Rugosa (roogo-sa). L. adj., "wrinkled." Second hot. 



name. 

 Rumex (roo-meks). L. name for " sorrel." Bot. name 



Dock group. 

 Rupestris (roo-pes-tris). L. adj., '* growing on rocks." 



Second hot. name. 

 Rupicola (roo-pi-co-la). L. adj., " rupis " (a rock) and 



" cola " (a dweller). 

 Ruppia (roop-pi-a). After Ruppius, German botanist, 



died 1719. Bot. name for a group. 

 Rupture Wort. Eng. name for Herniaria group. 

 Rurivagum (roo-ri-va-gum). L. " Rus " (the country); 



" vagum " (wandering about). Second bot. name. 

 Ruscus (rus-kus). Herbalists called it Bruscus, from 



" bruskelen," Celtic name for box-holly. Bot. 



name for a group. 



Rush. Eng. name for Juncus group. 

 Rusticana (rus-tik-a-na). L. adj., " of the country/' 



Second bot. name. 

 Rutabaga (roo-ta-ba-ga). Second bot. name Swedish 



Turnip, a cultivated variety of Field Brassica. 

 Rutaceum (roo-ta-se-um). L. adj., " rue-like," from 



L... " ruta " (rue). Second bot. name. 

 Ruta-muraria (roo-ta-mu-ra-ri-a). L. " Ruta " (rue) ; 



" muraria " (of the walls). Second bot. name. 

 Rye (ri). A.S. " Ryge." Name of a cereal, inferior 



to Wheat, but more hardly, and therefore cultivated 



in cold climate. 



