GLOSSAKT. 



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Rays 57 i the marginal flowers a head or 

 cyme ; the partial stalks of an umbel. 



Radiate 'or Radiant : bearing rays ; di- 

 verging from a centre. 



Radical: near or belonging to the root. 



Radicle, 103. 



Raphe, 83. 



Receptacle, 61. 



Reclining: leaning or falling to one side. 



RSd:j bent gradually backward. 



Refracted: bent abruptly backward, as if 

 broken. 



Regular: of uniform shape and size. 



Reniform: see Kidney-shaped. 



Repand: wavy. 



Resupinate : turned upside down. 



Reticulate : disposed in little spaces, like 

 network. 



Revolute : rolled backward. 



Rhizoma, 18. 



Rhombic or Rhomboidal : diamond- 

 shaped. 



Ribs, 33 ; longitudinal ridges. 



Ribbed : bearing ribs. 



Root, 7. 



Rootlet, r. 



Rootstock, 18. 



Rostrate: beaked. 



Rotate: wheel-shaped; with a short tube 

 and a spreading limb. 



Rudimentary : imperfectly developed. 



Rugose : uneven ; wrinkled. 



Ruminated (albumen) : divided Into 

 lobes. 



Runcinate : same as lyrate, but with the 

 lobes directed backward. 



Runner, 23. 



Sagittate: arrow-shaped. 



Samara, 97. 



Scabrous: rough. 



Scales : reduced leaves, or any small 



and thin appendage. 

 Scaly : beset with scales ; of the texture 



of scales. 

 Scape, 50. 



Scarious : very thin and colorless. 

 Scurfy : covered with minute scales. 

 Secund: one-sided. 

 Seed, 99. 

 Segment: one of the parts of a divided 



leaf, &c. 

 Sepal, 63. 

 Septicidal, 89. 

 Serrate : with the margin cut into teeth 



like a saw. 

 Serrulate : finely serrate. 

 Sessile : not raised on a stalk. 

 Setaceous : bristle-like. 

 Sheath: the base of a leaf when it is 



wrapped round the stem.' 

 Sheathing : enclosing tha stem like a 



sheath. 

 Shield-shaped: see Peltate. 

 Shrub, 26. 

 Silicle and Silique, 90. 



Silky: clothed with fine appressed shin- 

 ing hairs. 

 Silvery: white and shining. 

 Simple : of one piece. 

 Sinuate : with the margins out into 



rounded incisions (sinuses) which are 



separated by rounded lobes. 

 Solitary : standing alone. 

 Soi-us : the fruit cluster of ferns. 

 Spadix, 54. 

 Spathe, 54. 

 Spatulate : dilated into a broad and 



rounded summit, from a slender base. 

 Species, 111. 



Specific : pertaining to a species. 

 Spike, 52. 

 Spikelet: a small spike, or a branch of a 



spike. 

 Spindle-shaped: see Fusiform. 

 Spine, 24. 



Spiny ; armed with spines ; spine-like. 

 Spiral Vessels, 5. 

 Sporangia : Flora, p. 585. 

 Spores: Flora, p. 585. 

 Spur: a hollow appendage of the calyx 



or the corolla. 

 Spurred : famished with a spur. 

 Squarrose : covered with spreading 



scales. 

 Stamen, 69. 



Staminate : bearing stamens. 

 Standard : Flora, p. 86. 

 Stellate or Stellar : radiating from a 



common centre. 

 Stem, 13. 

 Steraless, 13. 



Sterile : unfruitful ; imperfect. 

 Stigma, 78. 



Stigmatic : belonging to the stigma. 

 Stipe : the stalk of an ovary or of a fern- 

 leaf. 

 Stipel, 38. 



Stipellate : furnished with stipels. 

 Stipule, 38. 



Stipulate: fiirnished with stipules. 

 Stolon, 22. 



Stoloniferous : bearing stolons. 

 Stomata, 33. 



Strap-shaped : long and flat, with par- 

 allel margins. 

 Striate : marked with fine furrows. 

 Strigjose : bristly with rigid appressed 



hairs. 

 Strobile, 98. 

 Style, 77. 



Subulate: awl-shaped. 

 Sulcate : marked with deep furrows. 

 Suspended: hanging. 

 Suture, 80. 

 Syngenesious, 72. 

 System, 115. 



Tap-root, 8. 

 Tendril, 25. 



Terete : cylindrical ; round. 

 Temate : of three leaflets ; three in a 

 whorl. 



