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GLOSSARY. 
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Rotate. Applied to a monopetalous corolla, which is remark¬ 
able for a very short tube and flat, spreading limb. 
Rotundo-ovate. An abruptly rounded egg-shape. 
Rudiment. An imperfect development. 
Rufous. Orange-colour, stained with red or brown ; rusty. 
Rugose. Rough, either with short hairs or wrinkles. 
Rugulose. Indented with very small wrinkles. 
Runcinate. Applied to lyrate and other leaves, when the acute 
points of their lobes are presented towards the base, or 
hooked backwards. 
Runners. Creeping shoots, which root at intervals of their 
length, or at the extremity. 
Saccate. Formed like a bag or pouch. 
Sagittate. Shaped like an arrow-head. 
Samara. A winged seed-vessel, commonly called a key, as those 
of the ash and other trees. 
Sapid. Of an agreeable, pleasant taste. 
Saponaceous. Of an oleaginous nature, like soap. 
Sarmenta. Small, procumbent, rooting shoots or runners. 
Sarmentose. Producing sarmenta. 
Scabrous. Covered with little, rough protuberances. 
Scales. Small leaf-like processes, common at the articulation 
of the branches of soft-wooded plants, and the involucrum 
of Compositee. 
Scandent. Climbing. 
Scape. A flower-stem which rises directly from the root. 
Scion. A small branch intended for grafting ; a graft. 
Scrobiculate. Indented with little hollows or pits. 
Scutate. Buckler-shaped. 
Secund. Proceeding from one side only, as the flowers of Den- 
drobium secundum. 
Segments. The natural divisions of a leaf or flower. 
Seminal. Belonging to or originated from seed. 
Sepals. The segments of a calyx. 
Serrated. Cut like the teeth of a saw. 
Sessile. Devoid of footstalks. 
