GLOSSARY. 



Pratensis. Growing in meadow land. 



Process. A projecting part. 



Pubescent. Hairy, downy, or woolly. 



Pulp. Juicy, cellular substance of ber- 

 ries and other fruits. 



Punctate. Appearing dotted. Perfor- 

 ated. 



Petalous, leafy ; petaloid, like a leaf. 



Putrescent, rotten, putrid, decaying. 



Prophylactic, preventative against de- 



Proximate, next, near, intimate. 



Phosphate, a salt composed of phos- 

 phoric acid (Phosphorus and oxy- 

 gen) and an earthy base, as phos- 

 phate of lime. 



Potash, a fixed alkali from the ashes 

 of plants having a metalic base, pot- 

 assium. 



Physical, relating to or effected by nat- 

 ural agents, material objects or 



Raceme A bunch or cluster, kind of 

 infloresence in which the flowers 

 are arranged by simple pedicels on 

 the sides of a common peduncle ; 

 as the currant. 



Rachis. The common stalk to which 

 the florets and spikelets of grasses 

 are attached ; as in wheat heads. 

 The midrib of some leaves and 

 fronds. 



Radiate. The ligulate florets around 

 the margin of a compound flower. 



Radiz. A root ; part of the plant at- 

 tracting moisture from the soil. 



Radical. Growing from the root. 



Radicle. Part of the corculum which 

 forms the root ; the minute fibres of 

 a root. 



Ramiferous. Producing branches. 

 Ramose. Branching. Ramus. A 

 branch. 



Ray. The outer margin of compound 

 flowers. 



Receptacle. The end of a flower- 

 stalk : the base to which the differ- 

 ent parts of fructification are usually 

 attached. 



Reflexed. Bent backwards. 



Reclined. Bending over with the head 

 inclined towards the ground. 



Regimen, diet in sickness. 



Reniform. Kidney-shaped, heart-shap- 

 ed without the point. 



Residuum. What is left after experi- 

 ment or distribution. 



Reticulate. Veins crossing each other 

 like net- work. 



Ringent. Gaping or grinning ; applied 

 to some labiate corollas. 



Rootlet. A fibre of a root, little root. 



Rotate. Wheel-form. 



Rudimentary, first or early forms or 

 principles. 



Saccharine, partaking of or having the 

 quality 01 sugar. 



Saline, partaking of salt, belonging 

 to places where salt is found. 



Saltiferous. Bearing or producing salt. 



Salts, in chemistry, substances com- 

 posed of an acid and a base, as chlor- 

 ide of sodium, (common salt); when 

 salts do not color infusions of litmus, 

 etc., they are neutral salts, when 

 they do, they are acidulous ; and 

 super or bi denotes the excess of 

 acid, and when the acid is deficient 

 or the alkaline base predominates, 

 sub is added. There are great num- 

 bers of these salts. 



Saponaceous, soapy, like soap or thick 

 oil. 



Sarmentose. Running on the ground, 

 and striking root from the joints 

 only, as the strawberry. 



Scope. A stalk which springs from the 

 root, and supports flowers and fruit 

 but no leaves, as the dandelion. 



Scions. Shoots proceeding laterally 

 from the roots or bulb of a root. 



Secrete. To seperate, collect, with- 

 draw from. Secretaries. The ves- 

 sels which secrete. 



Segment. Part or principal division 

 of a leaf, calyx, or corolla. 



Sepal. Leaves or divisions of the calyx. 



Septa. Partitions that divide the inte- 

 rior of the fruit. 



Serrate. Notched like the teeth of a 

 saw. 



Sessile. Sitting down ; placed imme- 

 diately on the main stem without a 

 foot-stalk. Setaceous. Bristle-form. 

 Setose. Covered with bristles. 



Sheath. A tubular or folded leafy por- 

 tion including within it the stem. 



Shoot. Trees and shrubs send forth 

 annually a large shoot in the spring 

 and a smaller one from the end of 

 that in June. 



