Receptacle. The apex of the peduncle (much dilated in the Composites,) on which the parts of a flower (or entire florets) are inserted; the seat of the fruit, or of seeds and their equivalents.
Recurved; carved backwards.
Belle red; bent or doubled backwards.
Regular; having the parts uniform and equal among tnemsslves; as the lobes or petals of a corolla.
Remote; seated or growing at an unusual distance. Re •iform; kidney-shaped.
Repand; hating the margin slightly indented with shal low sinuses.
Replicate ; folded back on itself.
Reptum. A. name given to parietal placenta when sep arated from the valves; also, the persistent border of a fallen legume.
Resupinate; turned upside down.
Reticulate ; netted; having %eine or nerves crossing each other, or branching and reuniting like network. Retrorse, or retrorsely; pointing backwards or down wards.
Retuse; having a shallow sinus at the end.
Resolute; rolled backwards or outwards.
Rhizoma. A root-stuck, or root-like subterraneous stem. Rhombic, or rhomboid. rhomb-shaped; having four sides, with unequal angles.
Ribbed; Having ribs, or longitud'ual parallel ridges. Ribs. Parallel ridges, or nerves, extending from the base to. or toward., the apex.
Rigid; stiff, inflexible, or not pliable.
Ringent; gaping, with an open throat.
Root-sloe t. (See Rhizome.) Rostra'e; beaked; having a process resembling the beak of a bird.
Rosulate; in a rosette; arranged in circular series, like the petals of a double rose.
Rotate c nrolla. Wheel-shaped; monopetalous (or gam opetalous) and spreading almost flat, with a very short tune.
Rough; covered with dots, points, or short hairs, which are harsh to the touch.
Round; circular, or globular; not angular. (See Globose, Orbicular. and Terete.) Rudiment. An imperfectly developed organ.
.Rufrsce t; becoming reddish-brown, or rust-colored. Rufous; reddish-brown, or rust colored.
Rugase; wrinkled.
Rut plose; finely wrinkled.
Ruminated ; a term applied to a variegated albumen; i. e., when it-' substance is wrinkled or plicate, and the in vesti•g membrane prolonged within the folds.
Rand -ate; resembling the teeth of a mill-saw; somewhat pinnatifld, with the segments acute and pointing back wards.
Ruansr. A slender shoot, producing roots and leaves at the end, only, and at that point giving rise to another plant; exemplified in the strawberry plants.
Sac. A membranous bag, or boundary of a cavity.
i Sacrats; having, or Being in the tom of, a sac, or pouch, Sagittale; arrow-shaped; notched at base, with the lobes (and frequently the sinus) acute.
Salver-form, or 8 lver-shaped; tubular; with the limb. abruptly and flatly or hor,zontally expanded.
Samara. A kind of akeue, or iudehiscent pericarp, having a winged apex, or margin, as the maple, ash, elm. etc.
Samaroid; winged or margined like a samara.
Sarcocarp. The fleshy portion of a pert carp (ex. gr. of a drupe) between the epicarp and the endocarp. Sarmentose; having, or sending forth, or being in the form of runners.
Scabrous; rough, with little points. or hairs.
Sca'es. Small thin plates, or lea, -like processes; also the leaflets of the involucre. in the Composites.
Sca•dent; climbing, usually by means of tendrils.
Scape. A. peduncle proceeding directly from the root, and mostly naked.
Scarion•; dry and skinny. generally transparent.
Sca tered ; disposed or distributed thinly, without any regular order.
Scorpioid inflorescence: rolled back from the apex (circi nate) before development.
Scrobiculdte; having the surface excavated into little pits, or hollows.
; shaped like, or resembling, a target or shield. Seam. (See Suture.) Secu d; one ranked; all seated on, or turned to, the same side.
Seed; the matured ovule, with the embryo, or young plant. formed within it.
Segment. The division, or separated portion, of a cleft calyx, leaf, etc.
Semi; half ; as semi-bivalved, half-two-valved, semi terete, half round, etc.
Semloervirent; always green; living through the winter, and retaining its verdure.
Sepal. The leaflet, or distir et portion of a calyx. Sepaloid; resembling sepals; green and not petal like. Septicidal dehiscence. When a compound pericarp opens by splitting the dissepiments; i. e. the carpels separate from each other, and open to the seeds by the ventral suture.