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lies below the branches. The ftem, he terms 

 the afcending Caiidex^ and that which is com- 

 monly called the body of the root, the defcend- 

 ing Caudex. The root therefore, according to 

 this writer, confifts of Caudex and Radicula : it 

 is compofcd of medulla, lignum, liber, & cortex. 

 Vid. Phil. Botan. p. 38. 



RAMEA Folia [_Ravius, a branch] regards 

 the determination only ; leaves growing on the 

 branches, oppofed to CauHna Radicalia. 



Rameus Pedunculus, the foot-ftalk of a flower 

 proceeding from a branch, 



RAMOSISSIMUS Caulis [Ramus, j, 

 branch] ramis multis abfque ordine gravidus, a- 

 bounding with branches in-eguUx-ly difpofed. 



RAMOSUS Caulis [Ramusy a branch] ha- 

 ving many branches. 



Ramofa Radix, having ftrong lateral branch- 

 es, as in the Urtica. 



RAMUS [ab 'cffxfivpi, a. fmall branch] the 

 branch of a tree. 



RECEPTACULUM, a receptacle; the ba- 

 fis on which the other fix parts of fru(5lIfication 

 are connected : its fpecies arc Receptaculum pro- 



prium. 



