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GLOSSARY. 



Raphis, 



Ramifications, subdivisions of root, branches, leaves, 



or panicles. 

 Ramose, branched. 

 Flainuli, twigs or small branches. 



' in seeds this is the channel of vessels, 

 , k which connects the chalaza with the 

 '.' < hilura; in umbelliferous plants it is 

 the line of junction, of the two halves 

 of which their fruit is composed. 

 Receptacle, that part of the fructification which sup- 

 ports the other parts. 



Recell'es I * e l)a ^ s or s ' nuses f 'obed leaves. 

 Rectilinear, straight lines. 



5"?"";% Cleaning back. 

 Rechnateil, ) 



Reclinately-erecl, at first leaning back, then erect. 



Recumbent, lying upon the ground. 



Recurved, curved backwards. 



Reflexed, bent backwards. 



Refracted, bent back. 



Refrigerant, producing coolness. 



Reniform, kidney-shaped. 



Reniform-cordate, between kidney-shaped and heart- 



shaped. 

 Repand, a leaf having its margin undulated and un- 



equally dilated, is said to be repand. 

 Repandly-angular, repand and angular. 

 Repand-crenated, ~ 

 Repand-serrated, 



serrated crenatedj 



Repand-toothed V an d undulated. 



Repandly-toothed, 

 Repandously-toothed, 



Repellant, that which drives away any thing. 

 Replicate, folded back. 

 Replant, creeping and rooting. 



iS } havin s the P wer to dissolve - 



Resupinate, inverted in position, so that that which 



was in front becomes the back. 

 Reticulated, resembling a net, usually applied to the 



veins and nerves. 

 Reticulately-areolate, having areolse disposed like 



net-work. 

 Reticulately-nerved, having nerves disposed like 



net-work. 

 Reticulately-mined, the veins disposed in the manner 



of a net 



7J<;*raefed,drawnin or lyingbetween things; bent back. 

 Retrofracted, bent backwards. 

 Retroflexed, bent backwards. 

 Retrograde, usually applied to hairs when they are 



bent back or down, instead of forward or up. 

 Refuse, appearing as if bit off at the end, abruptly 



obtuse. 

 Revolute, rolled back, usually applied to the edges 



of leaves. 



Jlkizoma, \ applied to roots which spread under 

 Rhysoma, / ground, as the roots of Iris. 

 Rhizomatose,\ h , h ; 

 Rhysomatose, ) 

 Rhomb, \ 



Rhomboid, > shape of rhombus. 

 Rhomboidal, ) 



, between rhomboid and egg- 

 Rhomb-ovate f sh d betwen r]]( f m _ 



Rhomboid-ovate, > boid and lanceolate, and 



Mombotd-lanceolate, } between rhomboid and 



Rhomb-spatulate, ^ spat ulate. 



Rib, the projecting vein of any thing. 



Ribbed, having projecting veins. 



Rigid, stiff. 



Rimose, having a longitudinal fissure or fissures, 



chinky. 



Ringent, gaping. 

 Ringing, making an incision resembling a ring 



round a branch. 



Rosellate, \ applied to leaves when they are disposed 

 'Rosulate, f in the manner of the petals of a rose. 

 Rotate, a monopetalous corolla, the limb of which is 



flat, and the tube very short, is called rotate, or 



wheel-shaped. 



Roundish-deltoid, form between orbicular and deltoid. 



Roundish-obovate, roundly obovate. 



Roundish-cordate, roundly cordate. 



Roundish-ovate, roundly egg-shaped. 



Rubefacient, any thing which reddens the skin, and 

 raises slight cutaneous inflammation. 



Rudiment, when an organ is imperfectly developed, 

 botanists call such a rudiment, but sometimes 

 the permanent parts of the leaves are called rudi- 

 ments of these leaves. 



Rufescent, rather rusty. 



Rttfescently-tomentose, covered with rusty down. 



Rufous, reddish orange-colour, or rusty. 



Rugosities, protuberances. 



Rugose, rough or coarsely wrinkled. 



Rugoso-striated, having wrinkled stripes. 



Rugulose, finely wrinkled. 



Runcinate, applied to the lobes of leaves, a leaf 

 irregularly lobed, the lobes gradually diminish- 

 ing to the base, and hooked back. 



Runcinately-pectinate, runcinate and pectinate. 



Runcinately-pinnatijid, pinnatifid, with the lobes 

 hooked back. 



Runcinately-toothed, hooked back, and toothed. 



Runcinatehj-lyrate, lyrate, with the lobes hooked back. 



Runners, procumbent shoots, which root at their 

 extremity. 



Running into, a leaf is said to run down into the 

 petiole, or down the stem, when it extends down 

 the petiole or stem, also applied to the calyx 

 when it runs gradually into the pedicel. 



Ruptured, appearing as if burst. 



Rusty-tomentose, covered with rusty tomentum. 



S. 



Saccate, bagged, having a bag or pouch, as in many 



petals and sepals. 



Sack-formed, formed like a sack or pouch. 

 Sagittate, shaped like the head of an arrow. 

 Sagittate and Sagittately, when joined by a hyphen 



to another word, signifies a form between the two 



words, as sagittate-cordate, sagittate-lanceolate. 

 Salivation, a discharge of saliva from the glands of 



the mouth. 

 Samara, a kind of winged seed-vessel, the same as 



what the English call a key, such as those of ash 



and sycamore. 



Samaroid, having a seed-vessel like a samara. 

 Sapid, agreeable to the palate. 

 Saponaceoits, soapy. 

 Sarcocarp, the most fleshy part of fruit under the 



epicarp. 

 Sarmentose, producing sarmenta, or runners and 



twigs. 

 Sauted, cut in such a manner as to resemble the 



teeth of a saw. 



Scabrous, rough from little asperities. 

 Scale-formed, formed like scales. 

 Scales, any small processes resembling minute leaves 



or scales ; also the leaves of the involucrum in 



compositae ; also the appendages at the top of 



the claws of the petals in Caryophyllea. 

 Scandent, climbing. 

 Scape, a stem rising from the root, and bearing 



nothing but the flowers, or sometimes a few 



brae teas. 



Scattered, without regularity. 



Schistous, formed of the rock called schist. 



Scion, a shoot intended for a graft. 



Scolloped, having deep and wide indentations. 



Scoria, cinders, ashes. 



Scrobiculate, excavated into little pits or hollows. 



Scrotiform, formed like a double bag. 



Scurfy, covered with scales resembling scurf. 



Scutate, formed like an ancient round buckler. 



Secund, arranged on one side only. 



Segments, parts of any thing. 



Semi, half. 



Semi-cordate, half-cordate. 



Semi-orbicular, half-circular. 



Semi-sagittate, half arrow-shaped. 



Seminal, of or belonging to the seed. 



Seminiferous, bearing seed. 



Sepals, the divisions of the calyx. 



Sepalled, having sepals. 



Separable, that which is divisible. 



Septa, the partitions which divide the interior parts 



of the fruit, the dissepiments. 

 Septiferous, bearing septa or partitions. 

 Series, a row, a layer. 

 Sericeous, silky. 

 Sericeously-velvety, velvety and silky. 



Serratures, the teeth of a serrated leaf. 

 Serrate-toothed, having teeth like a saw. 

 Serrulated, having notches like those of a very fine 



saw. 

 Serrate-crenate, having notches between serratures 



and crenatures. 



Serrulations, notchings like those of a very fine saw. 

 Sessile, without stalks. 

 e a ous, I resem |jii n g a bristle in shape. 



Setaceously-toothed, having teeth like bristles. 

 Setaceously-pilose, covered with stiff bristle-like 



hairs. 



Setie, bristles. 



Setiform, formed like bristles. 

 Setigerous, bearing bristles. 

 Setose, covered with bristles. 

 Setosely-prickly, covered with stiff bristle-like 



prickles. 

 Sheath, the lower part of the leaf that surrounds 



the stem. 

 Sherds, fragments of pots, employed by gardeners 



to drain their flower-pots. 

 Shield, a broad table-like process in the flower of 



Stapelia and its allies. 



Short-acuminated, having a short taper point. 

 Shortly-bifid, \ slightly cleft in two parts at the 

 Shortly-2-cleft, j" apex. 



Sialagogue, having the power of exciting saliva. 

 Siliceous, flinty/ 



Silicle, small short pod of Cruciferee. 

 Siliculose, form of a silicle, a silicle. 

 Silique, the long terete pod of Crucifem. 

 Siliquose, form of a silique, a silique. 

 Silky-puberulous, \ cmered with silky pubescence 

 Silky -pubescent, V or tomentum. 

 Silky-tomentose, ) 

 Sillcy-mllous, covered with silky hairs. 

 Simple, the reverse of compound, not divided. 

 Sinuate, \ cut in such a manner as to appear 

 Sinuated, f bending in and out. 

 Sinuate-angular, \ , e(J }n a sinuated manner . 

 Stnuately-angular, ) 



Sinuately-lobed, lobed in a sinuated manner. 

 Sinuately-3-lobed, lobed with three sinuated lobes. 

 Sinuately-pinnatifid, sinuated and pinnatifid, between 



sinuate and pinnatifid. 

 Simiately-curled, sinuate and curled. 

 Sintiately-repand, scolloped and undulated. 

 Sinuately-runcinate, between scolloped and runci- 

 nate. 



Sinuate-toothed, \ toothed in a sinuated man- 

 Sinuately-toothed, f ner. 

 Sinus, the bays or recesses formed by the lobes of 



leaves and other bodies. 

 Smooth, without hairs and smooth. 

 Smoothed, without hairs and glossy. 

 Soboliferous, producing young plants from the root. 

 Saddened, soaked. 

 Somniferous, causing sleep. 

 Soporific, causing sleep. 

 Sorediferous, bearing soredia. 

 Sori, the patches of fructification on the back of 



the fronds of ferns. 

 Spacelate, withered or dead. 

 Spadir, a spike protracted from a spath. 



