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Polygamous Flowers, 68. 
Polypetalous : of separate petals, 7 1 . 
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. 
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. 
Retuse : blunted, or slightly indented, 49. 
Revolute : rolled backwards. 
Reticulated : in the form of network, as the veins 
of one class of leaves, 45. 
Rhombic, Rhomboidul : like a rhomb in outline ; 
i. 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, 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 : the stalk or base of a leaf, or any bodr 
enwrapping the stem. 
Sheathing : wrapped around the stem, like a 
sheath. 
Shield-shaped, 48. 
Shrubs, 26. 
Shrubby, 37. 
Silicle : 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, &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 divisions 
of a compound spike. 
Spines, 37 
