GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 219 



Repnnd, wavj'-margined, 55. 



Repent, creeping, i. e. prostrate and rooting underneath. 



Replum, the frame of some pods (as of I'riclvly Poppy and Cress), persistent after 



the valves fall awa^'. 

 Replant, same as repent. 



Remplnate, inverted, or appearing as if upside down, or reversed. 

 Reticulated, the veins forming net^'ork, 50. Retiform, in network. 

 Retinerved, reticulate-veined. 

 Retroflexed, bent backwards; same as reflexed. 



Refuse, blunted; the apex not only obtuse but somewhat indented, 54. 

 Revolute, rolled backwards, as the margins of many leaves, 72. 

 Rhuchis (the backbone), the axis of a spike or other body, 73. 

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



seed, 112, 126. 

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

 Rhizanthous, flowering from the root. 

 Rhizoinn, Rhizome, a rootstock, 42-44. 



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

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



or anj' similar elevated line along a body, 49, 50. 

 Rimose, having chinks or cracks. 

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

 Ri)i(jcnt, grinning; gaping open, 92. 

 Ripni-ious, on river-banks. 



Rivnlis, Latin for growing along brooks; or Ricularis, in rivulets. 

 Root, 33. 

 Root-hairs, 35. 



Rootlets, small roots, or root-branches, 33. 



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

 Roridus, dewy. 



Rosaci'ous, arranged like the petals of a rose. 

 Rosfellate, bearing a small beak (Rdsiellum). 

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

 Rosulate, in a rosette or cluster of si)readiiig leaves. 

 Rotate, wheel-shaped, 89. 

 Rotund, rounded or roundish in outline. 



Ruber, Latin for red in general. Rnbescent, Rubicund, reddish or blushing. 

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

 Rufous, Ruj'escent, brownish-red or reddish-brown. 

 Rui/ose, wrinkled; roughened with wrinkles. 

 Ruminated (albumen), penetrated witli irregular channels or portions, as a nutmeg, 



looking as if chewed. 

 Runcinate, coarsely saw-tootliod or cut, the pointed tcetli 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, 40. 



Sahulose, growing in sand. 



Sac, any closed membrane, or a deep purse-shaped cavity. 



Saccate, sac-shaped. 



Saf/ittate, arrowhead-shaped, 53. 



Snlsuf/inous, growing in brackish .soil. 



Sah-er-shnped, or S<drer-form, witli a border spreading at right angles to a slender 



tube, 89. 

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

 Snmaroid, like a samara c key-fruit. 

 Sap, the juices of plants generally, 136. Sapwood, 142. 

 Saprophytes, 37. 

 Snrcocarp, the fleshy part of a stone-fruit, 120 



