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A yellow-flowered weed; -- so named from a Mr. Ramsted who introduced it into Pennsylvania. See Toad flax. Called also Ramsted weed.

A genus of herbs, mostly with yellow flowers, including crowfoot, buttercups, and the cultivated ranunculi (R. Asiaticus, R. aconitifolius, etc.) in which the flowers are double and of various colors.

e. See Râle. To spring a rattle, to cause it to sound. -- Yellow rattle (Bot.), a yellow-flowered herb (Rhinanthus Crista- galli), the ripe seeds of which rattle in the inflated calyx.

Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.

A radiating part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.

The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.

posture; leaning; reclining. [R.] They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers. Milton.

Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. "Fresh flowers, white and reede." Chaucer. Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose. Shak.

A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.

To flower, or cause to flower, again. Sylvester.

Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.

A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

Inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.

.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. convoluta and S. lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.

Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.

Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.

One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

all trees, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.

To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.