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INDEX AND DICTIONARY 



Polygamous Flowers, 68. 

 Polypetalous : of separate petals, 71. 

 Polysepalous : of separate sepals. 

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

 Pouch : see SUicle, 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. 



Reclined, 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. 



Rctuse : blunted, or slightly indented, 49. 



Revolute : rolled backwards. 



Reticulated : in the form of network, as tlie veins 

 of one class of leaves, 45. 



Rhombic, Rhomboidal : like a rhomb in outline ; 

 1. e. 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, 7i 



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 



underground. 

 Scar of a seed, 83. 

 Scion, 56. 

 Seed, 5, 9, 82. 

 Seed-coats, 83. 

 Peed-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. 

 SeiTulate : finely senate. 

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

 Setaceous : in shape like a bristle. 

 Sheath : the stalk or base of a leaf, or any bodj 



enwrapping the stem. 

 Sheathing : wrapped around the stem, like s 



sheath. 

 Shield-shaped, 48. 

 Shrubs, 26. 

 Shrubby, 37. 



Silicic : a short silique, or pouch, 80. 

 Sihque: the pod of the Cress Family, 80, 124 

 Silky : clothed Avith a coat of fine and glossj-, 



close-pressed hairs. 

 Simple : of one piece, &c. 

 Simple Fruit, 77. 



" Leaves, 44. 

 Sinuate : with a strongly wavy outline, 49. 

 Solitary : single, 59, &c. 

 Spadiceous : bearing a spadix. 

 Spadix, 62. 



Spathaceous : having or like a spathe. 

 Spathe, 62. 

 Spatulate, 47. 

 Species, 93. 



Specific name : the name of the species. 

 Spicate or Spiked : arranged in a spike. 

 Spike, 61. 

 Spikelet : a small spike, or one of the divisioua 



of a compound spike. 

 Spines, 37 



