Spath, ya broad, sheathing leaf, enclosing flowers 
Spatha, arranged upon a spadix. 
Spathulate, shaped like a spatula, a knife so 
Spatulate called, whose broadest end is at the 
ypatulate, - 
extremity. 
Spathaceous, furnished with a spatha, or like a spath. 
Spatula, a spatulate-shaped process. 
Spatulate-linear, between linear and spatulate. 
Spatulate, when joined by a hyphen to another word, 
signifies a form between the two words, as spatu- 
late-ovate, spatulate-roundish, spatulate-lanceolate, 
spatulate-obovate, &c. 
Spermaderm, the outer covering of a seed. 
Spherical, round like a sphere. 
Spheroidal, 
Spheroid, 
Spherules, minute spheres or globules. 
Spicate, having a spike. 
Spicately-disposed, disposed in the manner of a 
spike. 
Spike, flowers sessile upon a long rachis, as Vero- 
nica spicata. 
Spiked, having a spike. 
Spike-formed, tormed like a spike. 
Spikelets, in grasses, flowers arranged in two rows, 
as in Bromus, small spikes. 
Spinulosely-toothed, having spiny teeth, or small 
teeth like spines. 
Spines, indurated branches or processes not falling 
off from the part that bears them. 
Spinescent, furnished with soft spine-like processes. 
Spiniform, formed like a spine. 
Spinulescent, having a tendency to produce small 
spine-like processes. 
Spinose, 
Spinous, 
Spinosely-toothed, \ having sharp stiff teeth like 
Spinously-toothed, spines. 
Spinosely-serrated, having serratures like spines. 
Spinosely-trifid, divided into three spines. 
Spinulose, furnished with small spines. 
Spiny, furnished with a spine or spines. 
Spiny-ciliated, edged with stiff processes like spines. 
Spiny-serrated, having the serratures or teeth ter- 
minated by spines. 
Spiny-toothed, having teeth like spines. 
Siliculeform, form of a silicle. 
Spiral, circularly involved, twisted like a screw. 
Spirally-convolute, rolled together in a spiral manner. 
Spirally-twisted, twisted like a screw. 
Sporules, that part of cryptogamous plants which 
answers to the seeds of other plants. 
Sporuliferous, bearing sporules. 
Spurious, counterfeit. 
long processes resembling horns, pro- 
duced by various parts of a flower; in 
` Aconitum the process which terminates 
the petal or nectary. 
Squamiform, like scales, formed like scales. 
Squarrose, spreading stiffly at right angles or in a 
greater degree. 
Squarrosely-imbricated, laid over each other in a 
squarrose manner. 
Squinancy, an inflammation in the throat. 
Stalks, the footstalks of leaves or flowers. 
Stalked, having stalks. 
Stamen, the male organ of a flower. 
Staminiferous, bearing stamina. 
Staminiferous-tube, the tube which is formed from 
the cohesion of the filaments. 
Standard, the upper petal in pea-flowers. 
Starry, stellate, in the manner of a star, radiating. 
Starry-pubescent. See Stellately-pubescent. 
Stellate-hairs, tufts of hairs radiating like a star. 
Stellately-pubescent, covered by starry tufts of down. 
Stellulate, resembling little stars. 
Stellately-spreading, } disposed or spreading in the 
Stellately-disposed, manner of a star. 
Stem-clasping, clasping the stem ; a leaf is so called 
when it clasps the stem with its base. 
Sterile, barren. 
Sternutory, qualities which provoke sneezing. 
? almost like a sphere. 
} furnished with spines or form of spines. 
Spurs, 
Spur, 
GLOSSARY. 
Stigma, the female organ of a flower. 
Stigmatose, when a stigma is long, lateral, or on one 
side of the style. 
Stimulating, exciting. 
Stipe, the stalk of a fruit within the corolla and 
calyx, or the claw of a petal. 
Stipe-formed, having the form of a stipe. 
Stiped, having a stipe. i 
Stipitate, furnished with a stipe. . 
Stipitately-unguiculate, having cylindrical unguis or 
claws. 
small scales or membranes at the base 
Stipulas, of the petioles, uncertain leaves, usu- 
putes, ally one on each side. 
Stipulate, furnished with stipulas. 
Stipulaceous, 
Stipulaceously-dilated, when a petiole is dilated at 
the base it is so called. 
Stipular, in place of stipulas. 
Stipulary, occupying the place of stipulas. 
Stipuled, having stipulas. 
Stolons, runners which root at the joints, as those 
of the strawberry. 
Stoloniferous, bearing creeping runners which root 
at the joints. l 
Stomachic, agreeable to the stomach. 
Strangury, a disease, also produced on plants by 
tight ligatures. 
Strata, layers, beds. 
Streaks, little channels, furrows, or lines, 
Striæ, small streaks. 
Striated, having streaks. 
Strict, upright, straight, not crooked. 
Striga, little, upright, unequal, stiff hairs, swelled 
at their roots. 
Strigose, covered with strigæ. 
Strigosely-pilose, covered with long, stiff, unequal 
hairs, swelled at their roots. 
Strigosely-muricated, covered with stiff unequal 
points, swelled at their roots. 
Strobile, a fir cone ; the fruit of Magnolia, and such 
like, are so called. 
Strophiola, a round protuberance at the base of 
some seeds. 
Strophiolate, having a strophiola. 
Struma, a wen, a protuberance. 
Strumose, 
Strumous, 
Stupa, filamentose matter. 
Stupose, full of filamentose matter. 
Style, the stalk which intervenes between the ovary 
and the stigma and bearing the latter. The 
styles are called short in Oxalis when they are 
shorter than the shortest stamens. 
Styliferous, bearing a style or styles. 
Styptic, having the power to staunch blood. 
Sub, in composition, signifies somewhat, as sub- 
rotund, somewhat round, or roundish; substipi- 
tate, having a very short stipe; subcaulescent, 
having a kind of stem; subumbellate, somewhat 
umbellate; subsagittate, somewhat sagittate; sub- 
lobate, somewhat lobed; subdentate, somewhat 
toothed ; subradical, almost radical, and so forth. 
Subalate, with a narrow wing or margin. 
Suberose, corky. 
Subulate, form of an awl, tapering to a point. 
Subulate-conical, between awl-shaped and conical. 
Succulent, fleshy, and filled with juice. 
Sudorific, having the power of producing perspi- 
ration. 
\ covered with strume. 
Suffrutescent, 
Suffruticose, shrubby in a slight degree. 
Suffruticulose, 
Sulcate, fi : 
urrowed, having furrows. 
Sulcated, » Having 
Superior, when any thing is above the ovarium it is 
called superior ; the uppermost of any thing; the 
ovary or fruit is so called when it is above the 
calyx, petals, and stamens ; a radicle is said to be 
superior when in that end of the seed furthest 
from the hylum. 
Supernatant, floating on the surface of any thing. 
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Supine, lying with the face upwards. 
Suppurate, to generate matter. 
Supra-avillary, above the axils, in opposition to 
infra-axillary. 
Supra-decompound, above compound, doubly com- 
pounded. 
Surculi, young shoots. 
Suture, the line formed by the cohesion of two parts, 
usually applied to the fruit. 
Syngenesious, belonging to the 19th class in the 
sexual system. 
Synthetical, combining, opposed to analytical. 
Syphilitic, of or belonging to syphilis. 
T. 
Tails, the long feathery or hairy terminations ot 
certain fruits. 
Tap-root, a root which penetrates deep and per- 
pendicularly into the ground without dividing, 
Tapering, becoming gradually narrower. 
Taper-pointed, having a long taper point. 
Tartareous, consisting of tartar. 
Teated, resembling the figure of a teat in animals. 
Tendrils, the curling, twining organs by which some 
plants lay hold of others, as the vine. 
Tendrilled, having tendrils. 
Terete, like a taper, round and long. 
Terminal, ending, or at the top of any thing. 
Tern, in threes, or three in a whorl. 
Ternary, consisting of threes, or succeeding by 
threes. 
Ternate, a leaf consisting of three leaflets, 2-3-ter- 
nate, twice or thrice ternate. 
Ternately-decompound, compounded in a ternate 
manner. 
Ternately-verticillate, having three leaves in a whorl. 
Tessellated, variegated by squares, chequered. 
Testa, the skin or integument of a seed. 
Testaceous, consistence of a shell. 
Tetanus, cramp of the stomach. 
Tetrachotomous, a stem that ramifies in fours. 
Tetragonal, having four angles. 
Tetragynous, having four styles. 
Tetrandrous, having four stamens. 
Tetrapetalous, having four petals. 
Tetraquetrous, having four angles or sides. 
Tetrasepalous, having four sepals. 
Thalamus, that part of a flower which rises below 
the ovarium, and sometimes supports the outer 
envelopes as well as the stamens in all the Tha~ 
lamiflore. l 
Thallus, that part which bears the fructification in 
lichens. 
Thece, the cases that contain the sporules of cryp- 
togamic plants. 
Thecaphore, an elongated receptacle, which bears 
one ovary only but not the petals, nor sta- 
mens; example the caper. 
Thready, having long hairs like threads. 
Threads, long hairs like threads. 
Throat, the orifice of a flower. — 
Thyrse, a kind of dense panicle, like that of the 
lilac. 
Thyrsoid, resembling a thyrse. 
Tissue, may be composed of membranes, bladders, 
cells or fibres. 
Tomentose, covered with dense curled white down or 
hairs. 
Tomentosely-cinereous, covered with grey tomentun. 
Tomentosely-scabrous, covered with rough tomentum. 
Tomentosely-hairy, covered with long tomentum. 
Tomentosely-hispid, covered with stiff tomentum. 
Tomentosely-hoary, covered with hoary tomentum. 
Tomentosely-pilose, covered with long tomentum. 
Tomentosely-villous, covered with villous tomentum. 
Tomentosely-pubescent, covered with pubescent to- 
mentum. 
Tomentum, dense, close, white curled hairs or down. 
Tonic, bracing, corroborative. 
