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Rh Belonging to the sea or the neighbourhood of the sea.

A group of microspores contained in a special envelope, as in Azolla.

Thin, soft, and translucent, like a membrane.

A name applied to one of the two carpels composing the fruit of Umbelliferæ.

The middle layer of a fruit or pericarp.

The opening or mark in the integument of a seed indicating the position of the foramen of the ovule.

The smaller kind of spore in vascular cryptogams.

The central and principal nerve of a leaf.

Having the stamens all united by their filaments into a column or tube.

Having a single stamen.

Resembllng a necklace or string of beads; constricted at regular intervals.

Applied to those plants whose flowers have only a single perianth.

Those plants whose embryo has but one cotyledon or seed-lobe.

Having the stamens and pistils in separate flowers, but borne on the same plant.

Gamopetalous; having all the petals united by their edges.

(1.) One-leaved, as an involucre composed of a single piece. (2.) Equivalent to "gamosepalous" or "gamopetalous."

Applied to a genus with but one species.

Composed of mucilage; sllmy.

A sharp terminal point.

Possessing a short and sharp terminal point.

Ending in a diminutive mucro.

Arranged in many vertical rows or ranks.

Cleft into many lobes or segments.

Rough with short hard points.

Diminutive of "muricate"; minutely muricate.

Blunt; without a point.

Bare; without its usual covering or appendages, as a stem without leaves, a flower without perianth.

Boat-shaped.

The sweet secretion within a flower; honey.

Honey-bearing.

A simple or unbranched vein or slender rib.

Having nerves or slender ribs.

Reticulated; net-veined.

That part of a stem or branch from which leaves or branches are given off; the knots in the stems of grasses.

Knotty or knobby; usually apphed to roots.

A hard indehiscent one-celled fruit.

A small nut; sometimes applied to the hard seed-like divisions of the fruit of Labiatæ.

Shaped like an inverted cone.

Inversely heart-shaped, the notch being uppermost.

(1.) Unequal-sided. (2.) Slanting; turned to one side.

Considerably longer than broad, with parallel sides and rounded ends.

Inversely ovate, the broadest part towards the apex.

A solid with an obovate outline.

Wanting or imperfectly developed.