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VOCABULARY. 



Rcr'olntt. Rolled backward or outward. 



Hluniibiiiil. Diamond-form. 



Hil>. A nerve like supixtrt to a leaf. 



Riffid. Stiff, not pliable. 



Hi n <t. The band around the capsules of 

 ferns. 



Ringent. Gaping or grinning; a term be- 

 longing! to tin- labiate corollas. 



Root. The descending part of a vegeta- 

 ble. 



Rootlet. A fibre of a root, a little root. 



Rosaceous. A corolla formed of roundish 

 spreading petals, without claws or with 

 very short ones. 



RHXI''H.<. Hose coloured. 



Roatel. That pointed part of the embryo, si' nun. A bay; applied to the plant, a 



which tends downward at the firat ger- 

 mination of the .-ceil. 



Runt rate. Having a protuberance like 

 bird's beak. 



Rotate. Wheel-form. 



Rntun'du*. Round. 



Ruhr, i. Hed. 



Rufous. Reddish yellow. 



>..!. Wrinkled. 



Run i-innii. Having large teeth pointing 

 backward, as the dandelion. 



Rupcs'tri*. Growing among rocks. 



Sapit'tate. Arrow-form. 



Stuiferou*. Heading or producing salt. 



Salnus. Salt t a>;. (I. 



Salver-form . Corolla with a ,flat spread 



ing border proceeding from the top of a 



tube : flower monojietalous. 

 Sam'ara. A winged pericarp not opening 



by \ alves. as the maple. 

 Sap. The watery fluid contained in the 



tubes and little cells of vegetables. 

 Sapor. Having taste. 

 SariHcn' tose . Running on the ground, and 



annually a large shoot in the spring and 

 another in June. 



s/truA. A jilant with a woody stem, 

 branching out nearer the ground than a 

 tree, usually smaller. 



Sic'cus. Dry. 



SH'icle. A seed vessel constructed like a 

 silique, but not longer than it is broad. 

 liquc. A long pod or seed vessel of two 

 valves, having the seed attached to the 

 two edges alternately. 



Simple. Not divided, branched or com- 

 pounded. 



v/// u,rt,'. The margin hollowed out re- 

 sembling a bay. 



roum'isli cavity in the edge of the leaf 



or petal. 



So'ri. Plural of sorus ; fruit dots on ferns. 

 Spa'tlix. An elongated rc.-rptaclc of flow 



ers, commonly proceeding from a spatha. 

 Spa'tha. A sheathing calyx opening 



lengthwise on one side, and consisting 



of one or more valves. 

 Spat'vlate. Large, obtuse at the i ml. 



gradually tapering into a stalk at the 



base. 



Spe'dct. The lowest division of vegeta- 

 bles. 



Specif ie. Belonging to a species only. 

 Sper r ma. Seed. 

 spike. A kind of inflorescence in which 



the flowers are sessile, or nearly so, as 



in the mullein, or wheat. 

 Spike' let. A small spike. 

 Spin'dle shaped. Thick at top, gradually 



tapering, fusiform. 

 .Spine. A thorn or sharp process growing 



from the wood. 

 Spino'sus. Thorny. 

 pi'ral. Twisted like a screw. 

 Spur. A sharp hollow projection from a 



flower, commonly the nectary. 



striking root from the joints only, as the Spur' red-rye. A morbid swelling of the 



strawberry. 

 Sar'cocarp. (From jtorz, flesh, and Jtar- 



f cw, fruit.) The fleshy part of fruit. 

 Sen 'In r or Sca'brous. Rough. 

 Scandena. Climbing. 

 Scape. A stalk which springs from the 



root, and supports flowers and fruit but Squarro'se. 



no leaves, as the dandelion. a;< -. 



Sca'rious. Having a thin membranous stamen. That part of 



margin. which the artificial cl 



Scattered. Standing without any regular Stam'inate. 



order. tils. 



Scionf. Shoots proceeding laterally from Standard. See banner. 



the roots or bulb of a root. 



leaf, calyx or corolla. 



Sempervi'reii*. Living through the win- 

 ter, and retaining its leaves. 



Serrate. Notched like the teeth of a saw. 



Ser'ntlatc. Minutely serrate. 



Sessile. Sitting down ; placing immedi- 

 ately on the main stem without a foot 

 stalk. 



Seta. A bristle. 



Sfta'ccous. Bristle-form. 



Shuft. A pillar, sometimes applied to the 

 style. 



Sheath. A tubular, or folded leafy portion 

 including within it the stem. 



Shoot. Each tree and shrub sends forth 



seed, of a black or dark colour, some- 

 times called ergot; the black kind is 

 called the malignant ergot. Graingrow- 

 ing in low moist ground, or new land, 

 is most subject to it. 

 Squamo'sus. Scaly. 



Ragged, having divergent 



the flower on 

 are founded. 

 Having stamens without pis- 



Strl'late. Like a star. 



Segment. A part or principal division of Stem. A general supporter of leaves, 



flowers and fruit. 

 Stenless. Having no stem. 

 Ster'ile. Barren. 

 Stiff 'ma. The summit, or top of the pis 



Stipe. The stem of a fern, or fungus ; 



also the stem of the down of seeds, as 



in the dandelion. 

 xtip'itate. Supported by a stipe. 

 Sti'pu/e. A leafy appendage, situated at 



the base of petioles, or leavi s. 

 Stoloniferous. Putting forth scions, or 



running shoots. 



Stramin'eous. Straw like, straw coloured. 

 Strap-form. Ligulate. 

 Stratum. A layer ; plural strata. 



