GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 219 



Repamd, wavy-margined, 55. 



Repeal, creeping, i. ••• proetrate and rooting anderneath. 



Ittplum, the Frame of some pods (as of Prickly Poppy and Cross), persistent after 



the valves fall away. 

 It* /limit, name as repent. 



Hi mpinate, inverted, or appearing as if upside down, or reversed. 

 Reticulated, the veins forming network, 50. Retiform, in network. 

 Retinerved, reticulate -veined. 

 Retro [flexed, bent backwards; same 88 reflezed, 



Httuft, blunted; the apex not only obtuse but soin-wliat indented, 54. 

 lit volute, rolled backwards, as the margins of many leaves, 72. 

 Rhachis (the backbone), the axis of a spike or other body, 7^. 

 Rkaphe, the continuation of the seed-stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or 



seed, 112, 126. 



Rkapkides, crystals, especially needle-shaped ones, in the tissues of plants, 137. 



Rhizant/ious, flowering from the root. 



Rhizoma, Rhizome, a rootstoek, 42-44. 



Rhombic, in the shape of a rhomb. Rkomboidal, approaching that shape. 



Rib, the principal piece, or one of the principal pieces of the framework of a leaf, 



or any similar elevated line along a body, 49, 50. 

 Rimose, having chinks or cracks. 

 Ring, an elastic band on the spore-cases of Ferns, 159. 

 Ringent, grinning: gaping open, 92. 

 Riparious, on river-banks. 



Rivalis, Latin for growing along brooks; or Rivularis, in rivulets. 

 Root, 33. 

 Root-hairs, 35. 



Rootlets, small roots, or root-branches, 83. 



Rootstoek, root-like trunks or portions of stems on or under ground, 42. 

 Jit i ritl its, dewy. 



Rosaceous, arranged like the petals of a rose. 

 Rostellate, bearings small beak (Rottellum). 

 Rostrate, bearing a beak {Rostrum) or a prolonged appendage. 

 Rosulate, in a rosette or cluster of spreading leaves. 

 Rotate, wheel-shaped, 89. 

 Rotund, rounded or roundish in outline. 



Unlit r, Latin for red in general. Rubesceut, Rubicund, reddish or blushing. 

 Rudimentary, imperfectly developed, or in an early state of development. 

 Rufous, fin f't .<ct nt, brownish-red or reddish-brown. 

 Rugose, wrinkled; roughened with wrinkles. 

 Ruminated (albumen), penetrated with irregular channels or portions, SB I nutmeg, 



looking as if chewed. 

 Runcinate, coarsely raw-toothed or cut, the pointed teeth turned towards the base ol 



the leaf, as the leaf of a Dandelion. 

 Iiiniiu r, a slender and prostrate branch, rooting at the end, or at the joint-, 40. 



Sabulose, growing in -and. 



8ac, any cloned membrane, <»r a deep purse-shaped cavity. 



Saccate, sao--haped. 



Sagittate, arrowhead-shaped, 58. 

 S alsugin ous, growing in brackish noil. 



Snln -r-shfi/ietf, or Salti r-t'orm, with a border spreading at right angles to a slender 

 tube, 



Smnura, a wing-fruit, or key. 122. 



Smnartiit/, like i samara or kev-fruit. 



Sap, the juices of plant- generally, 136. 8apwood, 142. 



Saproph i/it s. 87. 



Sarcooarp, the fleshy part oj a stone-fruit, ISO. 



