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Ring : an elastic band on the spore-cases of Ferns. (Manual, p. 587, plate 9, 



fig. 2, 3.) 

 Ringent: grinning; gaping open; p. 102, fig. 209. 

 Root, p. 28. 

 Root-hairs, p. 31, 149. 



Rootlets : small roots, or root-branches ; p. 29. 



Rootslock : root-like trunks or portions of stems on or tinder ground ; p. TO. 

 Rosaceous : arranged like the petals of a rose. 

 Rosleilate: bearing a small beak (rostellum). 

 Rdslrate : bearing a beak {rostrum) or a prolonged appendage. 

 Riisuhte : in a regular cluster of spreading leaves, resembling a full or double 



rose, as the Icayes of Houseleek, &c. 

 Restate; wheel-shaped : p. 101, fig. 204, 205. 

 Rotund; rounded or roundish in outline. 



Rudimentari/ ; imperfectly developed, or in an early stale of development. 

 Rugose : wrinkled, roughened with wrinkles. 

 Ruminated (albumen) : peneti-ated with ii'regnlar channels or portions filled with 



softer matter, as a nutmeg. 

 Riincinate : coarsely saw-toothed or cut, the pointed teeth turned towards the 



base of ihe leaf, as the leaf of a Dandelion. 

 Runner: a slender and prostrate branch, rooting at the end, or at the Joints, as 



of a Strawberry, p. 38. 



Sac ; any closed membrane, or a deep purse-shaped cavity. 



Sagittate: arrowhead-shaped; p. 59, fig. 95. 



Salver-shaped, or Salver-form : witll a border spreading at I'iglit angles to a slen- 

 der tube, as the corolla of Phlox, p. 101, fig. 208, 202. 



Samdra : a wing-fruit, or key, as of Maple, p. 5, fig. 1, Ash, p. 131, fig. 300, and 

 Elm, fig. 301. 



Sdmaroid: like a samara or key-fruit. 



Sup; the juices of ])Iants generally. Ascending or crude sap; p. 161, 168. 

 Elaborated sap, that which has been digested or assimilated by the plaat ; 

 p. 162, 169. 



Sdrcocarp : the fleshy part of a stone-fruit, p. 128. 



Sarmentdceous : bearing long and flexible twigs {sarments), either spreading or 

 procumbent. 



Saw-toothed ; see serrate. 



Scdbrous : rough or harsh to the touch. 



Scaldriform ; with cross-bands, resembling the steps of a ladder. 



Scales; of buds, p, 22, 50; of bulbs, &c., p. 40, 46, 50. 



Scalij : furnished with scales, or scale-like in texture ; p. 46, &c. 



ScandenL; climbing ; p. 37. 



Scape ; a peduncle rising from the ground, or near it, as of tlie stemlesi Violets, 

 the Bloodroot, &c. 



Scdpiform : scape-like. 



Scar of the seed, p. 135. Lcaf-scnrs, p. 21. 



Scdrious or Scariose ; thin, dry, and membranous. 



SiiAiJbnn: rc^mbling sowda^k 



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