Recurved; curved backwards.
Belle red; bent or doubled backwards.
Regular; having the parts uniform and equal among tnemselves ; as the lobes or petals of a corolla.
Remote; seated or growing at an nnueual distance. Re iform; kidney-shaped.
Repand; having the margin slightly indented with shal low sinuses.
Replicate ; folded back on itself.
.Replum. A name given to parietal placentae when sep arated from the valves; also, the persistent border of a .
fatten legume.
Reeupinate; turned upside down.
Reticulate ; netted; having veins or nerves crossing each other, or branching and reuniting like network. Retrorse, or retrorsely; pointing backwards or down wards.
Retuee; having a shallow sinus at the end.
Resolute; rolled backwards or outwards.
Rhiaoma. A root-stock, or root-like subterraneous stem. Rhombic, or rhomboid, rhomb-shaped; having four sides, v ith unequal angles.
Ribbed; having ribs, or longitudinal parallel ridges. Ribs. Parallel ridges, or nerves, extending from the base to. or towards, the apex.
Rigid; stiff, inflexible, or not pliable.
Ringent; gaping, with an open throat.
Root-stock. (See Rlaitoms.) Roetra'e; beaked; having a process resembling the beak of a bird.
Roeulate; in a rosette; arranged in circular series, like th petals of a double rose.
Rotate corolla. Wheel-shaped; monopetalous (or gam opetalons) and spreading almost flat, with a very short to ne.
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.
becoming reddish-brown, or ruat-eolored. Rufous; reddish-brown, or rust colored.
Rugase; wrinkled.
Rug ; finely wrinkled.
Ruminated; a term applied to a variegated albumen ; i.e., when its substance is wrinkled or plicate, and the in vesting membrane prolonged within the folds.
Run cisate resembling the teeth of a mill-saw; somewhat pinnatifld, with the segments acute and pointing back wards.
Runner. 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. Sacratr' having, or being in the form of, a sac, or pouch, Sagittatel; arrow-sbaped ; notched at base, with the lobes (and frequently the sinus) acute.
Salver-form, or e leer-shaped; tubular; with the limy abruptly and flatly or Samara. A kind of akene, or inctehiecent 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 pericarp (ex. gr. of a drupe) between the epicarp and the endocarp. i Sarmentose; having, or sending forth, or being in the feria of runners.
Scabrous; rough, with little points. or hairs.
Scales. Small thin plates, or lest-like processes; also the leaflets of the involucre, in the Composites.
Scaudent; climbing, usually by means of tendrils.
&ape. A peduncle proceeding directly from the root, and mostly naked.
Seari0118; dry and skinny, generally transparent. Scattered ; disposed or distributed thinly, without any regular order.
Scorpioid iuflorescence; rolled back from the apex (circi nate) before development.
Scrobiculate; having the surface excavated into little pits,. or hollows.
Scutella0; shaped like, or resembling, a target or shield. Seam. (See Suture.) Secuqd; 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 aemi-bivalved, half-two-valved, semi terete, half round, etc.
Sempervirent; always green; living through the winter, and retaining its verdure.
Sepal. The leaflet, or distinct portion of a calyx. Sepaloid; resembling sepals; green and not petal like. Septicidal dehiscence. When # compound pericarp opens by splitting the dissepiments; e. the carpels separate from each other, and open to the seeds by the ventral suture.