218 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Puberulent, covered with fine and short or almost imperceptible down. 



Pubescent, hairy or downy, especially with fine and soft hairs or pubescence 



Pulverulent or Pulveraceous, as if dusted with fine powder. 



Pulvinate, cushioned, or shaped like a cushion. 



Pumilus, low or little. 



Punctate, dotted, either with minute holes or what look as such. 



I'uncticulate, minutely punctate. 



Pungent, prickly-tipped. 



paniceous, carmine-red. 



Purpureus, originally red or crimson, more used for duller or bluisb rwl* 



Pusillus, weak and small, tiny. 



Putamen, the stone of a drupe, or the shell of a nut, 120. 



Pygmaius, Latin for dwarf. 



Pyramidal, shaped like a pyramid. 



Pyrene, Pyrena, a seed-like nutlet or stone of a small drupe. 



Pyriform, pear-shaped. 



Pyxidaie, furnished with a lid. 



Pyxis, Pyxidium, a pod opening round horizontally by a lid, 124. 



dundri-, in words of Latin origin, four; as Quadrangular, four-angled; Qsiadrt 

 foliate, four-leaved; Quadrifid, four-cleft. Quaternate in fours. 



Quinate, in fives. Quinque, five. 



Qtincuncial, in a quincunx ; when the parts in sestivation are five, two of then: 

 outside, two inside, and one half out and half in. 



Quintuple, five-fold. 



Kace, a marked variety which may be perpetuated from seed, 176. 



Aaceme, a flower-cluster, with one-flowered pedicels arranged along '.o< sides of > 



general peduncle, 73. 

 Racemose, bearing racemes, or raceme-like. 

 Racnrs, see rhachis. 

 Radial, belonging to the ray. 

 Radiate, or Radiant, furnished with ray-flowers, 94. 

 Radiate^veined, 52. 



Radical, belonging to the root, or apparently coming from to» «wc 

 Radicant, rooting, taking root on or above the ground. 

 Radicels, little roots or rootlets. 



Radicle, the stem part of the embryo, the lower end of which forms the root, 11, 127 

 Rameal, belonging to a branch. Ramose, full of branches (rami). 

 Ramentaceous, beset with thin chaffy scales (Ramenta), as the stalks of many Ferns 

 Ramification, branching, 27. 

 Ramulose, full of branchlets (ramuli). 

 Raphe, see rhaphe. 

 Ray, parts diverging from a centre, the marginal flowers of a head (as of Coreopsis, 



94), or cluster, as of Hydrangea (78), when different from the rest, especially 



when ligulate and diverging (like rays or sunbeams); also the branches of an 



umbel, 74. 

 Ray-flowers, 94. / 



Receptacle, the axis or support of a flower, 81, 112; also the common ixis or sup 



port of a head of flowers, 73. 

 heclmed, turned or carved downwards; nearly recumbent. 

 Rectinerved, with straight nerves or veins. 

 Recurved, curved outwards or backward*. 



Reduplicate (in aestivation), valvate with tne margins turned outwards, 97 

 Rejlexed, bent outwards or backwards. 

 Refracted, bent suddenly, so as to appear broken at the beno 

 Regular, all the parts similar in shape, 82. 

 Reniform, kidney-shaped, 53. 



