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INDEX AND DICTIONARY 



Polygamous Flowers, 68. 

 Polypctalous : of separate petals, 71. 

 Polysepalous : of separate sepals. 

 Pome : such a fruit as an apple or pear, 77. 

 Pouch : see Silicle, 80. 

 Prickles, 38. 

 Procumbent; 37. 

 Propagation from buds, .56. 

 " from seeds, 58. 



Prostrate, 37. 

 Pubescent: downy; the surface bearing fine and 



soft hairs, or pubescence. 

 Punctate: dotted, as if pierced with minute 



punctures ; as the leaves of the Orange and 



Lemon, St. John's-wort, &c. 

 Putamen : the stone of a drupe or stone-fruit, 78. 

 Pyxis, 80. 



Race : a variety of a species which may be prop- 

 agated from seed. 



Raceme, 60. 



Racemed or Racemose : bearing racemes. 



Radiate-veined, 46. 



Radical : belonging to the root. 



Radicle of the embryo, 9, 84. 



Ramification: branching, 25. 



Ray, 61, 165. 



Receptacle of a flower, 63. 



RecUned, 37. 



Recurved : curved outwards or downwards. 



Reflexed : bent backwards or downwards. 



Regular Flowers, &c , 70, 72. 



Reniform : kidney-shaped, 48. 



Repand": wavy-margined, 49. 



Reproduction, 6, 58. 



Retuse : blunted, or slightly indented, 49. 



Revolnte : rolled backwards. ^ 



Reticulated : in the form of network, as the veins 

 of one class of leaves, 45. 



Rhombic, Rhomboidal : like a rhomb in outline ; 

 i. c. four-sided with the side-angles obtuse. 



Ribs, 44. 



Root, 5, 34. 



Rootlets, 5, 36. 



Rootstocks, 31, 40. 



Rose-hip, 81. 



Rotate : wheel-shaped, 72. 



Runner, 39, 57. 



Running, 37, 



Sagittate ; arrow-shaped. 

 Salver-shaped, 72. 



Samara, 79. 



Sap, 86. 



Sap-wood, 43. 



Saw-toothed, 49. 



Scabrous : with a rough surface. 



Scale-shaped, 53. 



Scalloped, 49. 



Scaly Bulbs, 40. 



Scape : a naked flower-stalk arising from near or 



under ground. 

 Scar of a seed, 83. 

 Scion, 56. 

 Seed, 5, 9, 82. 

 Seed-coats, 83. 

 Seed-leaves, 9, 84. 

 Seed-scar, 83. 

 Seed-stalk, 83. 

 Seed-vessels, 77. 



Sepal: a leaf of the calyx, 9, 63. 

 Separated Flowers, 68. 

 Serrate : saw-toothed, 49. 

 Serrulate: finely serrate. 

 Sessile : sitting ; stalkless, 44, 60, 64. 

 Setaceous : in shape like a bristle. 

 Sheath :_ tbe stalk or base of a leaf, or any body 



enwrapping the stem. 

 Sheathing : wrapped around the stem, like a 



sheath. 

 Shield-shaped, 48. 

 Shrubs, 26. 

 Shrubby, 37. 



Silicic : a short silique, or pouch, 80. 

 Silique: the pod of the Cress Family, 80, 124. 

 Silky : clothed with a coat of fine and glossy, 



close-pressed hairs. 

 Simple : of one piece, &c. 

 Simple Fruit, 77. 



" Leaves, 44. 

 Sinuate ; with a strongly wavy outline, 49. 

 Solitary : single, 59, &e. 

 Spadiceous ; bearing a spadix. 

 Spadix, 62. 



Spathaccous : having or like a spathe, 

 Spathe, 62. 

 Spatulatc, 47. 

 Species, 93. 



Specific name : the name of the species. 

 Spicate or Spiked : arranged in a spike. 

 Spike, 61. 

 Spikclct : a small spike, or one of the divisions 



of a compound spike. 

 Spines, 37. 



