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GLOSSAKY AND INDEX. 



Pyriform : pear-shaped. 

 Pyrolcas, or Pyrolacefe, 440. 

 Pyxidate : furnished with a lid, lilie a 

 Pyxidlum, or pyxis : a pod opening by a 

 lid; 317, fig. 575, 588, 950, &c. 



Quadrdnrjular : four-angled. 



Quadri-, in Latin compounds : four. 



Quadrifdnous : in four vertical ranks. 



Qiiddrijid : four-cleft. 



Quadrlfdliate : four-leaved. 



Quadrifdiioliite : of four leaflets. 



Quadrijuyate : four-paired. 



Qiiodr/partite : four-parted. 



Quandang-nuts, 460. 



Quassia, 405. 



Quatenmrtj : consisting of four, 239. 



Quaternary products, 53, 57, 196. 



Quate'rnate: in fours. 



Qacrcitroa, Quercine, 476. 



Quin-, in Latin compounds : five in 



number. 

 Quinary : consisting of five, 234, 239. 

 Quinate : in fives. 

 Quince, 416. 

 Quincuncial : five-ranked ; in a quincunx, 



135,270. 

 Quinine, Quinia, 57, 433. 

 Quinqiiefarious : five-ranked. 

 QuinquefoUate : five-leaved. 

 Quinqttefdliolate : of five leaflets. 

 Quinqueldcular : five-celled. 

 Quinquina Bark, 433. 

 Quintuple : dividing into five parts. 

 Quijituple-ribbed, or 

 QuintilpU-nerved, 156. 



Race: a variety perpetuable by seed, 

 356. 



Raceme : an indefinite inflorescence witli 

 single pedicellcd flowers arranged 

 along a prolonged axis; 211, fig. 

 307. 



Bacemiferous : bearing racemes. 



Racimiform : resembling a raceme. 



Racemose : beanng or resembling ra- 

 cemes. 



Rachis : see Ehachis. 



Radial : belonging to the border or ray. 



Radiate, radiant : spreading from or 

 arranged around a centre ; having 

 rays. 



Rddiatcd-veined, 1 56. 

 ■ Radical: relating to the root (radix). 



Radical leaves : those apparently spring- 

 ing from the root, 143. 



Rddicant: rooting. 



Radicel: a diminutive root or rootlet. 



Radicifldrous ; flowering from the root, 

 or apparently so. 



Radiciform : appearing like a root. 



Radicle : a diminutive root ; the part of 



an embryo below 'the cotyledons, 



71, 324. 

 Radii: rays. 

 Rafflesiacese, 463. 

 Ramal, or rameal : relating to branches, 



143. 

 Romania, raments : thin chaffy scales in 



place of hairs. 

 Ravientdceous : bearing raments, as the 



stalks of many Ferns. 

 Ramijication, 97. 



Rdmrflorous : flowering on the branches. 

 Ramase : bearing branches [rami) ; 



branchy. 

 Rdmidose: bearing many branclilets 



{rdmuli). 

 RanunculaccaB, 380. 

 Raphe: see Rhaphe. 

 Raphides : crystals in plants, 59 

 7La7'e .• thinly set ; sparse or few. 

 Raspberry. 416. 

 Ray : the marginal flowers of a head, 



when diff'crent from the rest, 436 ; 



the branches of an umbel, &c, 

 Ray-fiower, 436. 



Recqjtacle of the flower, 224, 266. 

 Receptacle of inflorescence, 211, 215. 

 Recess : same as sinus. 

 Re'clinate, reclined: falling or turned 



downwards. 

 Re'ctinei-ved : parallel-veined. 

 Rectis&ial : in rectiUnear ranks, 141. 

 Recurved: curved, especially curved 



backwards. 

 Reduplicate, reduplicative, 273. 

 Rejie'xed : bent downwards or back- 

 wards. 

 Refracted: suddenly bent backwards. 

 Regular : the members alike in size and 



form, 239, 277. 

 R/iniform: kidney-shaped ; same as 



round-heart-shaped, but the breadth 



greater than tlxe length ; fig, 245. 

 Repdnd : bowed, the margin obscurely 



sinuate, 159, fig. 257. 

 Re'pent: same as creeping, 102. 

 Replicate : folded back. 

 Replum (a door-case) ; the frame-like 



placenta of Papaveracese, &c. from 



which the valves of the pod fall 



away in dehiscence. 

 Repraduction, 20, 21, 61 ; — in Cryptoga- 



mous plants, 330. 

 Reproductive organs, 70. 

 Replant : same as repent. 

 Rescdacese, 391. 

 Resins, 195. 



Respiration, 178, 199, 202. 

 Restiaceai, 496. 

 Resupinale : underside up, or having that 



appearance. 

 Reticulated; netted, 154. 



