GLOSSARY. XXili 
Recrinarvs, reclining, falling gradually back from the perpendicular, 
Recrvs, straight. 
Recurvus, suddenly bent backwards. 
REFLEXED (reflexus), the same as recurvus. 
ReEGuLaR (regularis), when all the parts are symmetrical. 
Rrmorus, remote, distaut. 
RENIFoRMIs, kidney-shaped, resembling the figure of a kidney bean, 
REPAND (repandus), having an uneven slightly sinuous margin. 
ReEsuprnaTE (resupinatus), inverted in position by the twisting of the stalk, 
as the flowers of the Orchis and leaves of the Ruscus. 
RETIcULATUS, netted, covered with slightly elevated lines, reticulated like 
a net. 
RETUsUS, retuse leaves, &c., terminating in a round end, but depressed in 
the centre. 
ReEyouuTE (revolutus), rolled backwards, as the margin of some leaves, &c. 
RaAIzoMa, (erGwpecr, a root,) root stock, a prostrate thick rooting stem, 
which yearly produces young branches or plants as the Iris. 
RuxomMBOID (rhombus), oval, but angular about the middle: 
RIBBED (nervosus), having several ribs. 
RINGENT, or personate, which see. 
Rosacrous, having an arrangement similar to the petals of a single rose. 
Rostratus, beaked. 5 
Rosutate (rosulatus), leaves, &c., so arranged as to resemble the close 
packed petals of a double rose, as the offsets of Houseleek. 
Roratus, wheel-shaped, any organ which has a very short tube and spread- 
ing segments, like the corolla of Veronica or Galium. 
Root, when a seed germinates, that part which descends to bury itself in the 
earth is the root. 
Roorstockx. See rhizoma. 
Rotrunpvs, roundish, orbicular, or slightly oblong. 
RuGosE (rugosus), covered with netted lines, having convex spaces between 
them. 
RunNcINATE (runcinatus), leaves having their divisions pointing towards the 
base of the leaf, as those of the Tarazacum. 
RunveEr, a prostrate filiform stem, putting out roots and a young plant at 
its extremity, from which also arise other runners, as in the 
Strawberry. 
S. 
Sacittatus. See arrow-headed. 
SALVER-SHAPED. See hypocrateriformis. 
Samara, a dry superior indehiscent fruit, two or more celled, the cells few 
seeded, elongated into wing-like expansions, as the Ash, 
Maple, and Elm. 
Sarcocarp (caeé, flesh, xeemes, fruit,) the fleshy part of fruit between the 
external integument, or epicarp, and the internal, or endocarp. 
SawEp (serratus), having sharp straight teeth pointing to the apex, when 
these teeth are themselves serrated, bi-serrate or duplicato- 
serrate. 
