GLOSSARY. 



Pubtfrulent : covered with fine and short, almost imperceptible down. 

 Pubescent : hairy or downy, especially with fine and soft hairs or pubescence. 

 Pulverulent, or Pulveraceous: dusted; covered with fine powder, or what 



looks like such. 



Pulvinate : cushioned, or shaped like a cushion. 

 Punctate : dotted, either with minute holes or what look as such (as the 



leaves of St. John's-wort and the Orange), or with minute projecting 



dots. 



Pungent: very hard, and sharp-pointed ; prickly-pointed. 

 Pyramidal : shaped like a pyramid. 

 Pyxis, Pi/ocidium : a pod opening round horizontally by a lid. 



Quadri-, in words of Latin origin : four ; as 

 QuadrdngiUar : four-angled. Quadrifuliate : four-leaved. 

 Quadrifid: four-cleft. 



Raceme : a flower-cluster, with one-flowered pedicels arranged along the 



sides of a general peduncle. 

 Racemose : bearing racemes, or raceme-like. 

 Rachls : see rhackis. 

 Radial: belonging to the ray. 

 Radiate, or Radiant : furnished with ray-flowers. 

 Radical : belonging to the root, or apparently coming from the root. 

 Rddic.ant : rooting, taking root on or above the ground, like the stems of 



Trumpet-Creeper and Poison-Ivy. 

 Radicle : the stem-part of the embryo, the lower end of which forms the 



root. 



Rameal: belonging to a branch. Ramose: full of branches (rami). 

 Rdmulose : full of branchlets (ramuli). 

 Raphe : see rhaphe, 

 Raij : the marginal flowers of a head (as of Coreopsis), or cluster (as of 



Hydrangea), when different from the rest, especially when ligulate, and 



diverging (like rays or sunbeams) ; the branches of an umbel, which 



diverge from a centre. 

 Receptacle: the axis or support of a flower; the common axis or support of 



a head of flowers. 



Reclined : turned or curved downwards ; nearly recumbent. 

 Recurved : curved outwards or backwards. 



Reduplicate (in aestivation) : valvate with the margins turned outwards. 

 Re/fexed: bent outwards or backwards. 



Refracted : bent suddenly, so as to appear broken at the bend. 

 Rcaular : all the parts similar. 

 Reniform: kidney-shaped. 

 Repdnd: wavy-margined. 



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

 Replum: the persistent frame of some pods (as of Prickly Poppy and 



Cress), after the valves fall away. 



Reproduction: organs of: all that pertains to the flower and fruit. 

 Resupinate: inverted, or appearing as if upside down, or reversed. 



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