septioidal 



setaceous 



through the dissepiments or lines 

 of junction ; septif erous {fero, I 

 bear), bearing the partition or dis- 

 sepiment. 



septifo'lious {septem, seven ; foliuvi, a 

 leaf), seven-leaved. 



sep'tiform, septif orm' is {septum, a 

 hedge ; forma, shape), having an 

 appearance of a dissepiment, as the 

 placenta of Plantaqo ; septif ragal, 

 septif 'ragus {frag, the root of fraoigo, 

 I break), when in dehiscence the 

 valves break away from the dis- 

 sepiments ; sept'ilis, of or belonging 

 to dissepiments; Septio (Lat. ), a 

 fencing in ; -^ prae'cox, a cell-wall 

 formed early in development ; '~ 

 procrastina'ta, a cell-wall delayed 

 in progress (Brand); sep'tulate, 

 having spurious transverse dissepi- 

 ments, {a) sparsely septate, {h) in- 

 distinctly septate, its true sense ; 

 Sep'tulum, a little partition of any 

 kind ; Sep'tum, a partition or dis- 

 sepiment ; '^ provect'um, applied 

 by Brand to a cell-wall advanced 

 into a branch of Cladophora ; '^ 

 revect'um, a cell-wall formed across 

 the stem of the same ; r^ semi- 

 revect'um, when the cell-wall forms 

 an angle of 45° (Brand). 



septupliner'vis, -vius {feptuplum, in 

 sevens ; nervus, a nerve), seven- 

 nerved, applied to a leaf 



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

 bably due to Ilypocrea Sacchari, 

 Went. 



se'rial, seria'lis, se'riate, s-'ria'tus 

 {series, a row), disposed in series of 

 rows, either tiansverse or longi- 

 tudinal. 



seric'eoua, scric'cus (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 various 

 groups. 



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

 that comes late), j)roduced late in 

 the season, or the year, as in autumn. I 



Ser'ra (Lat., a Bn\\), the tooth of a [ 

 serrate leaf ; serraefo'lius, iirefer- ' 



ably serratifo'lius {folium, a leaf), 

 having serrate leaves ; ser'rate, ser- 

 ra'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 serrate 

 leaf; ser'rulate, serrula'tiis, serrate, 

 but the teeth minute ; Serrula'tion, 

 (1) being serrulate ; (2) a serrulate 

 tooth. 



ser'ried, close t^'gether in rows 

 (Crozier). 



Ser'tulum {sertum, 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 {Sesammn, -f eZ5os, resem- 

 blance), granular, like the seeds of 

 sesamum. 



ses'qui (Lat.), a prefix meaning one 

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

 the stamens are half as many again 

 as the petals or sepals; (2) when a 

 fertile fiower is accompanied by a 

 neuter flower, as in some grasses ; 

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

 half in length ; sesquirecip'rocal 

 {rcciprocatio, alternation), applied to 

 hybrids between an F^ individual 

 and one of its parents (De Vries). 



ses'sile, scs'siJis (Lat., sitting, as 

 though sitting close, destitute of a 

 stalk. 



Se'ston {(T-ncTThs, sifted), jdankton 

 material retained by very fine meshed 

 sieves ; Sestonol'og'y, the science in 

 question. 



Sfe'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 

 liuhiis ; (5) by cyperologists used 

 for the bristle within the utricle of 

 certain species of On rev ; it repre- 

 sents the continuation of the floral 

 axis (C. B. Clarke) ; seta'ceous, -ecus 

 (+ ACEOUs), bristle-like; applied to 

 a stem it means slender, less than 



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