Botany

resembling, backwards, pericarp, apex, portion and wrinkled

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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.

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