Rhypticus (riptikus)

[NL. (Cuvier, 1829), also Rypticus, Soap-fish (Rhypticus are nat us). ing vine, has the seeds black with care-yellowing around the hilum, and from the use made of them is rhyne (rin), n. The best quality of Ru ian named Mexican rosary - plant . This and other species in hemp. the West Indies are included under the name red bead- Rhyngota (ring-gō'tä), n . pl . The original im- vine. R. minima , a low twining tropical weed of both hemispheres, reaching into the United States, has the West Indian name of wart - herb . Rhynchospora (ring-kos pō-rä), n. [NL. (Vahl, 1806), and close clusters, which are terminal or apparently axillary; by an undivided or two-cleft style; and by a nut beaked at its top the dilated and persistent base style. There are about 200 species, widely scattered through tropical and subtropical regions, especially in America, where many extend into the United States; in the Old World only two similarly extend into Europe and Asiatic Ru ia. They are annual or perennial, slender or robust, erect or rarely diffuse or floating, often with leafy stems. The spikelets are disposed in irregular umbels or se ile heads, which are clustered, corymbed, or panicled. Most of the species of tropical America ( Haplostyleæ ) have capitate spikelets, commonly one-seeded, and a long undivided slender style; the typical species ( Dichostyleæ ) have two to four-seeded polymorphous spikelets, and a style deeply divided into two branches. R. corniculata, a species of the interior United States, from 3 to 6 feet high, has the special name of horned rush. A slender species, R. Vahli ana, of the warm parts of America, has in the West Indies the name of star - gra . See cut under rostrate. Rhynchosporeæ (ring-kō-spō'rē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Nees von Esenbeck, 1834), lian. Rhynchostomat (ring-kos'tō-ma), n. pl. [NL., IMG:content-2234.jpg:[blocks in formation]