218 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Puberulent, covered with fine and short or almost imperceptible down. 



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



Pulverulent or Pulveraceous, as if dusted with fine powder. 



Pulvinate, cushioned, or shaped like a cushion. 



Pumilus, low or little. 



Punctate, dotted, either with minute holes or what look as such. 



I'uucticulate. minutely punctate. 



Pungent, prickly-tipped. 



Puniceous, carmine-red. 



Purpureus, originally red or crimson, more used for duller or bluish **A,. 



Pusiltus, weak and small, tiny. 



Futamen, the stone of a drupe, or the shell of a nut, 120. 



Pygm&us, Latin for dwarf. 



Pyramidal, shaped like a pyramid. 



Pyrene, Pyrena, a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe. 



Pyriform, pear-shaped. 



Pyxidaie, furnished with a lid. 



Pyxis, Pyxidium, a pod opening round horizontally by a lid, 124. 



Utt*oM- in words of Latin origin, four; as Quadrangular, four-angled; Quadn 

 foliate, four-leaved; Quadrifid, four-cleft. Quaternatt in fours. 



Quinate, in fives. Quinque, five 



Qtincuncial, in a quincunx ; when the parts in aestivation are five, two of then 

 outside, two inside, and one half out and half in. 



Quintuple, five-fold. 



Mace, a marked variety which may be perpetuated from seed, 176 



kaceme, a flower-cluster, with one-flowered pedicels arranged iVot? '.a e sides of 



general peduncle, 73. 



fiacemose, bearing racemes, or raceme-like. 

 Racrets, see rhachis. 

 Radial, belonging to the ray. 

 Radiate, or Radiant, furnished with ray-flowers, 94. 

 Radiate-veined, 52. 



Radical, belonging to the root, or apparently coming from taa XK&. 

 Radicant, rooting, taking root on or above the ground. 

 Radicels, little roots or rootlets. 



Radicle,' the stem part of the embryo, the lower end of which forms the root, 11, 127 

 Rameal, belonging to a branch. Ramose, full of branches (ramt). 

 Ramentaceous, beset with thin chaffy scales (Ramenta), as the stalks of many Ferns 

 Ramification, branching, 27. 

 Ramuiose, full of branchlets (ramuli). 

 Rnphe, seerhaphe. 

 Ray, parts diverging from a centre, the marginal flowers of a head (as of Coreopsis, 



94), or cluster, as of Hydrangea (78), when different from the rest, especially 



when ligulate and diverging (like rays or sunbeams); also the branches of an 



umbel, 74. 

 Ray-flowers, 94. 

 Receptacle, the axis or support of a flower, 81, 112; also the common 4Jua or sup 



port, of B head of flowers, 73. 



heclined, turned or carved downwards; nearly recumbent. 

 Rectinerved, with straight nerves of- veins. 

 Recurved, curved outwards or backward*. 



Reduplicate (in aestivation), valvate with tue margins turned outwards. -W 

 Reflexed, bent cutwards or backwards. 

 Refracted, bent suddenly, so as to appear broken at the benii 

 Regular, all the parts similar in shape, Si 

 Reniform. kidney-shaped, 53. 



