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Resin-warts or glands. Glands that secrete resin (bayberry, 

 black birch). 



Resiniferous or resinifluous. Exuding or producing resin. 



Reticulate. Netted, usually referring to veins of a leaf. 



Retrorsely hairy. With hairs directed downward on stem or 

 leaf, 

 volute. With the margins rolled back, as applied to leaves. 



Ring-porous. Wood in which the ducts first formed in the 

 season are either larger or more crowded than those 

 formed in summer (oak). 



Root-climber. A plant climbing by aid of aerial roots. 



Rudiment. Beginning of an undeveloped member. Con- 

 trasted with vestige. 



Rugulose. Minutely rugose or wrinkled. 



Savory. Smelling like thyme. 



Sap. As here used, the fluid that flows from a freshly cut 

 leaf-stalk or twig. 



Scabrous. Rough to the touch. 



le. As usually employed, a reduced leaf, as in winter 

 buds, ruscus, etc.: one of the parts of a cone of the larch, 

 etc.: a flattened (rhododendron) or peltate (elaeagnus) 

 hair. 



Scarious. Thin, dry and papery. 



Scattered. Not in any of the usual definite groups, as applied 

 to leaves, bundle-traces, etc. 



Scrambling-plants. Climbers that neither coil nor produce 

 aerial roots or tendrils (rose). 



Scurfy. Scaly rather than hairy. 



Sepals. Modified leaves forming the outer floral envelope. 



Serrate. Saw-toothed": the teeth pointed upward. 



Serrulate. Serrate with fine teeth. 



Sessile. Not stalked. 



Setaceous. Bristle-like, very narrow. 



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