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Ring : an clastic band on tlic sporc-citscs of Ferns. (Manual, p. 587, plate 9, 



Jlingent : {^riuning ; gajjing oi)cn ; p. 102, fig. 209. 



Jioot, p. 28. 



Jioot-huirs, p. 31, 149. 



Rootlets : small roots, or root-branches ; p. 29. 



Rootstock : root-like trunks or portions of stems on or under ground ; p. 40. 



Rostwfous : arranged like the petals of a rose. 



Roslellate: bearing a small beak (rostellum). 



Rdstrate : bearing a beak {>-ostritin) or a pixilonged appendage. 



Rdsulate: in a regular cluster of spreading leaves, resembling a full or double 



rose, as the leaves of Ilouseleek, &c. 

 Ratate: \vhcel-shaped : p. 101, fig. 204, 20.5. 

 Rotund : rounded or rouiulish in outline. 



Riidimentari/ : imperfectly develojted, or in an early state of development. 

 Rwjose : wrinkled, roughened with wrinkles. 

 Ruminated (albumen) : penetrated with irregular channels or portions filled with 



softer matter, as a nutmeg. 

 Riincinate : coarsely saw-toothed or cut, tlie pointed teeth turned towards the 



base of the leaf, as the leaf of a Dandelion. 

 Runner : a slender and prostrate branch, rooting at the end, or at the joints, as 



of a Strawberry, p. 38. 



Sac : any closed membrane, or a deep pursc-shapcd cavity. 



Sdi/ittate : arrowhead-shaped ; p. 59, fig. 95. 



Salcer-shaped, or Sidver-fonn : with a border spreading at right angles to a slen- 

 der tube, as the corolla of Phlox, p. 101, fig. 208, 202. 



Samara: a wing-fruit, or key, as of i\Iaple, p. 5, fig. 1, Ash, p. 131, fig. 300, and 

 Elm, fig. 301. 



Sdmaroid: like a samara or key -fruit. 



iSap: the juices of plants generally. Ascending or crude »;ap; p. 161, 168. 

 Elaborated sap, that which has been digested or assimilated bv the plaHt ; 

 p. 162, 169. 



Sdrcocarp : the fleshy ])art of a stone-fruit, ]). 128. 



Sannentdccous : bearing long and flexible twigs {sarments), cither spreadin"; or 

 procumbent. 



Saw-toothed : see serrate. 



Scabrous : rough or harsh to the touch. 



Scaldrijhrm : with cmss-bands, resembling the steps of a ladder. 



Scales : of buds, p. 22, 50 ; of bulbs, &c., p. 40, 46, 50. 



Scalg : furnished witii scales, or scale-like in texture ; p. 46, &c. 



Scandrnt : climbing ; p. 37. 



Scape: a peduncle rising from the ground, or near it, as of the stemless Violets, 

 the Bloodroot, &c. 



Scdpiform : scape-like. 



Scar of the seed, p. 135. Lraf-scars, p. 21. 



Scdrious or Scariose : thin, dry, and membranous. 



ScM/orm: resembling sawdust. 

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