septiferous 



sexangular 



dehisces through the dissepiments 

 or lines of junction ; septif'erous 

 (fero, I bear), bearing the parti- 

 tion or dissepiment. 



septifo'lious (septem, seven, folium, a 

 leaf), seven-leaved. 



sep'tiform, sepliform'is (septum, a 

 hedge, forma, shape), having an 

 appearance of a dissepiment, as the 

 placenta of Ptantago ; septif'ragal, 

 septif'ragus (frag, the root of 

 frango, I break), when in dehiscence 

 the valves break away from the dis- 

 sepiments ; sept'ilis, of or belong- 

 ing to dissepiments ; sep'tulate, 

 having spurious transverse dissepi- 

 ments, (a) sparsely septate, (b) 

 indistinctly septate, its true sense ; 

 Sep'tulum, a little partition of any 

 kind. 



septupliner'vis, -vius (septuphim, in 

 sevens, nermis, a nerve), seven- 

 nerved, applied to a leaf. 



Se'reh, a disease of sugar-cane, pro- 

 bably due to Hypocrea Sacchari, 

 Went. 



se'rial, seria'lis, se'riate, seria'tus 

 (series, a row), disposed in series of 

 rows, either transverse or longi- 

 tudinal. 



seric'eous, seric'eus (Lat.), silky, 

 clothed with close-pressed soft and 

 straight pubescence. 



Se'ries (Lat.), (1) a row; (2) by A. 

 Gray used as equivalent to sub- 

 kingdom, by others used for vari- 

 ous groups. 



sero'tinal, sero'tinous, -nus (Lat., 

 that comes late), produced late in 

 the season, or the year, as in 

 autumn. 



Ser'ra (Lat., a saw), the tooth of a 

 serrate leaf ; serraefo'lius, prefer- 

 ably serratifo'lius (folium, a leaf), 

 having serrate leaves ; ser'rate, 

 serra'tus, beset with antrorse teeth 

 on the margin ; ser'rate-cil'iate, 

 toothed, and with a marginal series 

 of hairs ; serra'tulus, slightly 

 toothed, denticulate ; Ser'rature, 

 Serratu'ra, the toothing of a ser- 

 rate leaf ; ser'rulate, serrula'tus, 

 serrate, but the teeth minute ; 



Serrula'tion, (1) being serrulate ; 

 (2) a serrulate tooth. 



ser'ried, close together in rows 

 (Crozier). 



Ser'tulum (sertmn, a garland), (1)J a 

 simple umbel ; (2) a selection of 

 plants described or figured ; Ser'- 

 tum, used for an account of a 

 collection of plants. 



se'samoid (Sesamuni, + elooj, resem- 

 blance), granular, like the seeds of 

 sesamum. 



sesqui (Lat.), a prefix meaning one 

 and a half ; sesquial'ter, ( 1 ) when 

 the stamens are half as many again 

 as the petals or sepals ; (2) when a 

 fertile flower is accompanied by a 

 neuter flower, as in some grasses ; 

 sesquipeda'lis (Lat.), a foot and a 

 half in length. 



ses'sile, ses'silis (Lat., sitting), as 

 though sitting close, destitute of 

 a'stalk. 



Se'ta (Lat., a bristle), (1) a bristle or 

 bristle-shaped body ; (2) the sporo- 

 phore of a Moss, the stalk which 

 supports its capsule ; (3) the arista 

 or awn of grasses, when terminal ; 

 (4) a peculiar stalked gland in 

 fiubtis ; (5) by cyperologists used 

 tor the bristle within the utricle of 

 certain species of Carex; it repre- 

 sents the continuation of the 

 floral axis (C. B. Clarke) ; 

 seta'ceous, -ceus ( + aceous), bristle- 

 like ; applied to a stem it means 

 slender, less than subulate ; seta'ceo- 

 serra'tus, having the serratures end- 

 ing in a bristle-like point; setife'- 

 rous (fero, I bear), bristle-bearing ; 

 se'tiform(/brwa, shape), in the shape 

 of a bristle ; setig'erous (gero, I 

 bear), bristle-bearing ; se'tose, seto'- 

 sus (Lat.), bristly, beset with 

 bristles ; Se'tula, the stipe of cer- 

 tain Fungi (Lindley) ; setu'liform 

 (forma, shape), thread-like ; se'tu- 

 lose, setulo'sus, resembling a fine 

 bristle. 



Sex, Sex'us (Lat.), in botany, mate 

 or female functions in plants. 



sexan'gular, sexangula'ris,sexan'gulus 

 (Lat.), six-angled. 



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