GLOSSARY. XXIX 



Pinnate, having numerous spreading branches on each side, like a feather (Tab. I., 



9. io). 

 Piliferous, bearing a piliform hair. Cf. aristate, cuspidate, mucronate. 

 Pleurocarpous, having the fruit lateral on a stem or branch (Tab. I., 4, 9, 12I 

 Plicate, folded in pleats or furrows (leaf, Tab. II., 12). 

 Plica, folds, as above. 



Plumose, regularly and closely pinnate like a plume or feather (Tab. I., 9). 

 Polymorphous, of many forms. 



Processes, the main divisions of the inner peristome (Tab. V., 13) ; v. cilia. 

 Proliferous, bearing abnormal or supernumerary outgrowths. 

 Prosenchymatous , cells with pointed ends dove-tailing into one another (Tab. III., 



9), v. parenchymatous. 

 Protonema, the green, branched threads produced from the spore, and sometimes 



persistent during the lifetime of the moss developed from it (Tab. V., 3). 

 Pseudopodium, a leafless branch resembling a fruit-stalk, often bearing gemniEe (Tab. 



IV., 5). Of Sphagnum, the stalk (false seta), bearing the capsule. 

 Punctate, Punctiform, rounded, dot-like (cells, Tab. III., 2). 

 Punctulate, with minute dots or points. 

 Pyriform, pear-shaped (capsule, Tab. IV., 13). 



Quadrate, square or nearly so (cells, Tab. III., 1). 

 Quinguefarious, arranged in five ranks. 



Radicles, rootlets springing from the stem, etc. (Tab. I., 14). 



Radicular, belonging to the radicles. 



Radiculose, covered with radicles. 



Ramuli, minute branchlets. 



Recurved, curved backwards. 



Reniform, kidney-shaped (guard-cells of stomata, Tab. V., 1). 



Retort cells, special enlarged cuticular cells with a more or less recurved apex, in 



Sphagnum (Tab. VI., F., branch). 

 Revolute, rolled back (leaf-margin, Tab. XXX., A. la). 

 Rhomboid, "diamond-shaped" (cells, Tab. III., 10, upper figure). 

 Rhizome, a subterranean root-like stem. 

 Rostellate, with a short beak (lid, Tab. XIII., F.). 

 Rostrate, with a long beak (lid, Tab. XV., B. 5). 

 Rosulate, in the form of a rosette. 

 Rufescent, reddish brown. 

 Rufous, reddish. 



Rugose, wrinkled (apophysis. Tab. IV., 15). 

 Rugulose, slightly wrinkled. 

 Rupestral, growing on rock. 



Saccate, bag or sack-shaped. 



Scabrous, vtxy rough, or warted. 



Scariose, of a scaly consistency, dry and thin. 



Secund, twisted to one side (leaves, Tab. II., 4). 



Serrate, toothed like a saw (leaf-margin, Tab. III., 23). 



Serrulate, finely serrate (leaf -margin, Tab. XX., L. 1, ic). 



Sessile, not stalked. 



Seta, the fruit-stalk. 



Setaceous, like a bristle (leaf-point, Tab. XIX., A. I). 



