GLOSSARY 



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Rostrate, beaked ; having a process re- 

 sembling die beak of a bird. 

 Rotate corolla, wheel-shaped j monopet- 

 alous and spreading almost Hat, w iih 

 little or no mho. 

 Rough* covered with dots, points, or short 



hairs, which are harsh to the touch. 

 Round, circular, or globose ; not angular. 



See Orbicular, Terete, and Globose. 

 Rudiment^ a term applied to an organ 



thai is imperfectly developed. 

 Rufcsccnt, becoming reddish-brown, or 



rust-colored. 

 Rufous reddish-brown, or rust-colored. 

 Rugose, wrinkled. Rugulose, finely 



wrinkled. 

 Runcinate, resembling the teeth uf a saw ; 

 pinnatifldi with the segments acute 

 and pointin? backwarks. 

 Runner, a slender shooti producing roots 

 and leaver at the end, only,— and from 

 that place giving rise to another 

 plant. 

 Saccate, having, or being in the form of, 



a sac, or pouch. 

 Sagittate, arrow-shaped; somewhat cor- 

 date,wilh the side-lobes (and frequent- 

 ly the sinus) acute. 

 Salver form, tubular, with the limb ab- 

 ruptly and flatly expanded. 

 Samara, a winged or margined pericarp, 

 not opening by valves;— as in Ash, 

 Mapfoj &e. 

 Sarmentose, having, or sending forth, or 



being in the form of, runners. 

 Scabrous, rough with little points, or hairs. 

 Scales, small ihin plates, or leaf-like pro- 

 cesses. 

 Scan-lent, climbing,— mostly by means of 



tendrils. 

 S:ape } a peduncle proceeding directly 



from the root, and m >stly leafless. 

 Sarious, dry an d skinny,— generally 



tr msparent. 

 Scattered, disposed or distributed with >ut 



any regular order. 

 Scrobiculate, having the surface excavat- 

 ed into little pits, or hollows. 

 Scute/late, shaped like a buckler, or 



shallow dish. 

 Semnl, one ranked; all turned to the 



same side. 

 Stgmcnt, the division or separated por- 

 tion of a cleft leaf) calyx, &c. 

 Semi, half; as sc/uidji calved, \ui\( two- 



valved. &c. 



St }Ji in- r tin n ! , :i 1 w a y s g re c n ; living th ro* 



the winter, and retaining its verdure. 



Sepal the leaflet, or distinct portion of a 



calyx.— when the latter consists of 



more than one piece. 



Sepaloid, resembling sepals; green and 



not petal-like 

 Septi/erous, bearing a septum. 

 Septum, the partition dividing the cells 



of fruit. 

 Sericeous, silky; covered with smooth 



glossy appressed silk-like hairs. 

 Series, a continued succession of things 



in the same order. 

 Serrate, sawed ; having sharp teeth 

 pointing towards the apex. 



Serratures, the teeth, or segments, of a 



serrate margin. 

 Serrulate, finely serrate ; having very 



small serratures. 

 Sessile, sitting close ; without any foot- 

 stalk. 

 Setaceous, or Set [form, bristle-like ; re- 

 sembling a bristle in size and figure. 

 Seta, bristles. 

 Setose, bristly, having the surface covered 



with bristles, or stiff straight hairs. 

 Sheath, a membranous expansion, tubu- 

 lar, or folded and enclosing the stem. 

 Sheathed, inclosed or embraced by a 



sheath. 

 Sheuthing, embracing the stem with a 



sheath. 

 Shining, glossy, bright. 

 Shrub, a. small woody plant, branching 



near the ground. 

 Shrubby, sma 1, and of a woody texture. 



like a shrub. 

 Silicle, a little or short silique ; nearly as 



wide as long. 

 Siiit/ue, a long pod, or membranaceous 

 6ecd vessel, of two valves,-— having 

 the seeds fixed altenately along both 

 sutures. 

 Siliquose, having siliques,— or resemb- 

 ling a silique. 

 Simple, undivided: not branched. 

 Sinuate, having sinuses, or incisions 

 which are open and rounded at bot- 

 tom. 

 Sinuate-serrate, having serratures with 

 the clefts, or incisions between them, 

 rounded at bottom. 

 Sinus, an open rounded indentation, or 



incision. 

 Sobolifervus, producing young plants 



from the root. 

 Solitary, standing alone; one only id a 



place. 

 Sari (plural of Sarns), small clusters of 

 minute capsules on the back of the 

 fronds of Ferns. 

 Spadix, a sort of dense-flowered succu- 

 lent spike,— usually enveloped by, or 

 proceeding from, a spalhe. 

 Spathaceous, having a spa the. 

 Spathe, a sort of sheathing common ca- 

 lyx, or involucre, open on one side; 

 , often containing the spadix. 

 Sjxitulutc, like a spatula ; larger and 

 rounded at the end. and gradually 

 tapering to the base. 

 Species, the fourth or lowest permanent 

 divisi -n <>{ natural objects, in a sys- 

 tematic arrangement. 

 Specific, b< 1 mging to, or distinguishing, 



the spech &, 

 Sphacelate* dark-colored, as if gangren- 

 < d, or dead. 



Sphagnoue, full of hog-mos8«or sphagnum. 



Sjrike, a mode of inflorescence in which 

 the dowers are sessile on the sides of 

 a long peduucle,or rachis. 



Spike let, a little spike,-— or one of the sub- 

 dtvisi ins of a spike. 



Spine, a thorn: a sharp process originat- 

 ing in the w kxI; in other words, an 

 abortive branch. 



