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PRATENSIS, growing in meadow lands. 



PUBESCENT, covered with soft silky hairs. 



PULP, the juicy, cellular substance of berries and other fruit. 



PUNGENT, stinging or pricking. 



RACEMES, when flowers are arranged round a filiform simple axis ; 



each particular flower being stalked. 

 RADIATE, the lingulate florets around the margin of a compound 



flower. 

 RADICLE, a term applied to leaves proceeding immediately from 



the root, as in the Daisy; also the minute fibres of a root. 

 RAMIFEROUS, producing bunches. 

 RAMOSE, branching. 

 RAMUS, a branch. 



RAY, the outer margin of compound flowers. 

 RECEPTACLE, the end of a flower stalk : the base of which the 



different parts of fructification are usually attached. 

 REFLEXED, bent backwards. 



RETICULATED, having the appearance of net work. 

 RETUSE, abruptly blunt at the end. 

 RINGENT T gaping. 

 RUGOSE, rough, or coarsely wrinkled. 



SAGITATE, shaped like an arrow head; triangular and very 

 much hollowed at the base. 



SCAPE, a stalk which springs from the root, and supports the flow- 

 ers and fruit, without leaves. 



SCALES, any small development resembling minute leaves; also the 

 leaves of the involucre of compound flowers. 



SEPAL, leaves or division of the calyx. 



SERRATED, edged with teeth like those of a saw. 



SESSILE, said of leaves seated on the stem, without foot stalks. 



SETACEOUS, bearing some resemblance to the form of a bristle. 



SIL1CLE, the small round pod of cruciform flowers. 



SINUATE, undulating, or wavy. 



SPADIX, flower stalk developed in a spatha. 



SPATIIA, a simple floral leaf, en-closing the whole inflorescence. 



