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Reticulated, netted. 

 Rettise, blunt and slightly indented. 

 Revolute, rolled- backwards. 

 Rigid, stiflf, inflexible, not easily bent. 

 Rotate (corolla), whose limbs spread out at right angles. 

 Rufous, brown inclining to red. 

 Rugose, wrinkled. 

 9-Rhomhoid, oval, somewhat angular in the middle. 

 Scahrid, rough, covered with short, stiff hairs. 

 Serrate, toothed, like the indentations of a saw. 

 Sessile, stalkless. 

 Spathulate, shaped like a spatlle. 

 Spike, an inflorescence where stalkless flowers are arranged oq a 



common axis. 

 Squarrose, when parts spread at right angles from one common axis. 

 ♦Seamen, the male organ of a flower, formed by the filament or stalk, 



and the anther. 

 Stigma, that upper part of the female organ of a flower, which has 



a soft spongy structure, and is destined to the reception of the 



impregnating principle. 

 Stipels, secondary stipules. 

 Stipule, a leaf-like appendage, situated at the base of real leaves, or 



of leaf-stalks. 

 Style, the columnar or filiform elongation of the pistil, which supports 



the stigma, and proceeds npwards from the ovary. 

 Ternate, composed of three leaflets. 

 Terminal, on the summit. 

 Tetragonous, having four angles. 

 Trifid, divided into three segments. 



Tomentose, covered with dense, entangled, rigid short hairs. 

 Trichotomous, having the division of three's. 

 Trijolinte, consisting of three leaflets. 

 Triplinerved (leaf), whf n 3 ribs or nerves proceed from the base, but 



where the two lateral -ones diverge from the midrib above the base. 

 Truncate, lopped oft", terminating abruptly. 

 Turbinate, formed like a top. 

 Umbel, an inflorescence in which numerous stalked flowers arise from 



one point. 

 Umbilicus, the hilum or base of a seed. 

 Urceolute (corolla), when the tube is swollen or nearly globose, aud 



contracted at the orifice with a small limb. 

 Valve^ the portions which separate self-opening capsules. 

 Ventricose, big-bellied, swelling out on one side. 

 VerticiUate, ranged in whorls. 



Vexillum, standard, the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower. 

 Villose, shaggy, covered with Jong, weak hairs. 

 Whorl, a kind of inflorescence, in which the flowers are placed around 



the stem or branch on a common axis. 



