GLOSSARY OF TERMS. 



Ramose, branchy. 



Ramnli, twigs or small branches. 



Receptacle, tlie base upon which all the other parts of a flower rests, 



pi. 14, fip:s. 1 — 6. 

 Reclinate, mclinine^ dov^^lwarcls. 

 Recurved, bent backwards, pi. 32, fig. 5. 

 Reflexed, bent backwards, pi. 32, fig. 5. 

 Retuse, ending in a broad shallow notch. 

 Reniform, kiclney-shaped, pi. 18, fig 12. 

 Replicate, folded back. 

 Resiipine, inverted. 

 Reticulated, resembling a net. 

 Revolute, rolled back, pi. 32, fig. 6. 

 Ribbed leaf, when the petiole extends through the leaf in parallel lines, 



pi. 31, fig. 8. 

 Ringent, gaping, pi. 9, fig. 1, pi, 28, fig 3. 

 Rotate, wheel-shaped ; corolla when the lunb is flat, and the tube very 



short, pi. 8, fig. 4. 

 Rudiment, when an organ is imperfectly developed. 

 Runcinate, piunatifid ; with the segments pointed, and mostly directed 



dowTiwards, pi. 28, fig. 19. 

 Rugose, rough, or coarsely wrinkled. 



Sagitafe, arrow-shaped, pi. 28, fig. 16 ; pi. 11, fig. 4. 



Samara, a winged seed-vessel, pi. 1.'5, figs. 4, 5. 



Sarmentose, producmg runners. 



Scabrous, rough w4th small asperities. 



Scales, membranous leaf-shaped processes. 



Scandent, climbing, page 62, pi. 27, figs. 1, 2. 



Scape, a flower-stalk arising from the root, page 64, pi. 27, fig. 4. 



Scariose, membranous and dry. 



Scion, a shoot. 



Secund, on one side only. 



Segments, divisions of a calyx, leaf, &c. 



Senii, half. 



Seminal, belonging to the seed. 



Sepals, the segments of the calyx. 



Septa, the partitions that di\-ide the interior of the fruit, pi. 12, figs. 4, 

 5,7. 



Serrated cut, like the teeth of a saw, pi. 31, fig. 1. 



Serrulations, notchings like those of a saw, pi. 31, fig. 1. 



Sessile, without a stalk, pi. 32, fig. 8 ; pi. 33, figs. 4, 5. 



Setaceous, bristle-shaped, 



Seine, bristles. 



Setose, invested with bristles. 



Sheath, a membranous envelope of a flower, and finally bursting lon- 

 gitudinally, pi. 10, fig. 4, a- 



Sheath of a leaf, the lower part of the leaf of a grass, which encloses 

 the straw. 



Silicle, a small pod, the fruit of some cruciform flower-bearing plants, 

 pi. 12, fig. 6; pi. 21, fig. 3. 



Silique, along pod, the fruit of some cruciform plants, page 18, pi. 12, 

 fig. 8 ; pi. 21, fig. 4. i- , i s , 1 ' 



Simple, undivided, or consisting of one ; the reverse of compound. 



Sinus, the recesses formed by the lobes of leaves, pi. 29, fig. 4. 



Smooth, destitute of hairs. 



