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nd or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.

A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.

se. (Bot.) See under Jamaica. -- Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms. -- Rose aniline. (Chem.) Same as Rosaniline. -- Rose apple (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree Eugenia Jambos. It is an edible berry an inch or more in…

sis Rubigo- vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.

The Abyssinian ox (Bos or Bibos, Africanus), noted for the great length of its horns. It has a hump on its back.

A dyewood yielded by Cæsalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. [Written also sappan wood.]

A hydrous silicate of magnesia and aluminia. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock.

The North American red cedar (Juniperus Virginiana.)

A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).

curing in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is esentially a silicate of aluminia and soda.

occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype.

The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.

one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian.

A sertularian hydroid, especially Sertularia abietina, which branches like a miniature fir tree.

the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints.

The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia Serpentaria).

oms. Also called silk flower. -- Silk vessel. (Zoöl.) Same as Silk gland, above. -- Virginia silk (Bot.), a climbing plant (Periploca Græca) of the Milkweed family, having a silky tuft on the seeds. It is native in Southern Europe.

An Old World finch of the genus Minia, as the M. Malabarica of India, and M. cantans of Africa.

Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.

t a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this state [Virginia] could see the policy of a gradual abolition of slavery. It might prevent much future mischief. Washington.