setaceo-serratus 



Shot 



subulate ; seta'ceo-serra'tus, having 

 the serratures ending in a bristle - 

 like point ; setife'rous {fero, I bear), 

 bristle-bearing ; se'tiform {forma, 

 shape), in the shape ,of a bristle ; 

 setig'erous {g&ro, I bear), bristle- 

 bearing ; se'tose, seto'sus (Lat.), 

 bristly, beset with bristles ; (2) 

 having setae usually ending in 

 glands (Babington) : Se'tula, (1) the 

 stipe of certain Fungi (Lindley) ; 

 (2) a minute bristle ; se'tuliform 

 {forwa^ shape), thread-like ; se'tu- 

 lo»e, setiilo' siLs, resembling a fine 

 bristle. 



Sex, Sex'xLS (Lat. ), in botany, male or 

 female functions in plants. 



sexan'gular, sexangida'ris, scxan'gulus 

 (Lat.), six-angled. 



sexfar'ious, -us {sex, six ; fariam, 

 suffix = in rows), presenting six 

 rows, extending longitudinally 

 round an axis ; sex'ifld {fid — cleft), 

 six-cleft (Crozier) ; sexloc'ular {locu- 

 lus, a small cell), six-celled. 



sexpar'tite, sexparti' t us {ha,t.), cut into 

 six segments. 



Sex'tant {sextans, a sixth part), a 

 radial cell division of segments in 

 three series, a sixth" part of the 

 oiiginal (De Bary). 



sex'tuplex (Lat.), six-fold or six-times. 



sex'ual, scj.ua' lis (Lat., pertaining to 

 sex), (1) the distinction of sex; 

 (2) api)lied to the phenoniena of 

 conjugation generally ; ~ Gener- 

 a'tion, the stage which bars the 

 sexual organs ; in Ferns the pro- 

 thallus ; ~ Sys'tem, Linnaeus's arti- 

 ficial arrangement by the number 

 and position of the sexual organs. 



Shade-leaves, those adapted to modi- 

 fied light ; ombrophile ; ~ -plants, 



(1) quiik-growing plants, emi>loyed 

 to protect permanent trees, and re- 

 moved when that result is attained ; 



(2) used by Clements as shade-loving 

 ]>lauts. 



Shaft, Withcring's word for Stylr. 

 Shag-ha'irs, = Villi, in German 



'■Zotten"; shag'gy, villous. 

 Shake, defect in timber due to the 



attacks of Travietes Pint, Fr. ; also 



known as Bark-, Heart-, or Ring- 

 shake. 



sharp-pointed, acute. 



shear'ing, displacement of the particles 

 of a body by lateral strain ; Shear- 

 resis'tance, the property inherent in 

 a body which resists sliearing. 



Sheath, (1) a tubular or enrolled part 

 or organ, sis the lower part of the 

 leaf in grasses ; (2) a limiting layer 

 of surrounding cellular tissue, as 

 the Bundle SHEATH ; (3) the lower, 

 longer portion of the cell-wall Ih 

 division in Oedogonmm (Potter) ; 

 sheath'ing, enclosing as though by 

 a sheath. 



Shelf, conducting, Dickson's term for 

 a -ledge within the ascidium of 

 Cephalctus follicular is, Labill. 



Shell, (1) the hard envelope of a nut; 



(2) a mass of layers in the cell-wall. 

 Sherter-par'asite, see Domatia. 

 Shield, ( 1 ) an apothecium or disk arising 



from a Lichen-thallus, containing 

 asci ; (2) in Characeae, one of the 

 eight cells forming tlie globule ; 



(3) the staminode of Cypripcdium 

 (S. Moore) ; (4) in Coniferae, the 

 thick rhomboid extremity of the 

 cone-scales (Potter) ; '^ shaped, in 

 the form of a buckler ; clypeate, 

 peltate, or scutate. 



Shifting, the same as Gliding 

 Growth ; in Germ. Verschiebung. 



Shing'le-banks, accumulations of rolled 

 pebbles, due to tides or sea-currents. 



shi'ning, lucid, a clear and polished 

 surface. 



Shoot, (1) a young growing branch or 

 twig; (2) the ascending axis ; when 

 segmented into dissimilar members 

 it becomes a Stem ; ~ Pole, that 

 2»oint where new shoot growth begins, 

 (/. Root-1'OLe; leafy '-', a branched 

 shoot ; thalloid ~ , an unsegmented 

 shoot. 



Short-rods, short bacteria. 



Shos'hungraph (Sanscrit, shoshun, 

 suction ; ypa<p^, writing), apparatus 

 to record suctional response in plants 

 (Bose). 



Shot, or Chott, a hollow which in Al- 

 geria accumulates water with salts ; 



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