Bomidigyiins 



semisagittat* 



(Schimper) ; semidi'gynos ( + digy- 

 Nus), when two carpels cohere 

 near the base only; semidouble, 

 semidu'plex, when the inner sta- 

 mens continue perfect, and the 

 outer are petaloid, half changed 

 into a double flower ; semiellip'tic 

 (4- elliptic), half-elliptic, the divi- 

 sion being longitudinal ; semleq'ui- 

 tant (+EQUITANT), half-equitant ; 

 Semiflor'et (-f Floret), a ligulate 

 floret ; semiflos'cular, semiflos'cti- 

 lous, semijlosculu'sis (-f- floscular), 

 having the corolla split and turned 

 to one side as in ligulate florets of 

 Compositae; Semiflos'cnle, a semi- 

 floret (Crozier) ; Semifru'tez {frutex, 

 a shrub), an under-shrub ; semi- 

 liasta'tas (-f hastatus), hastate on 

 one side only ; semilan'ceolate (+ 

 lanceolate), half-lanceolate, longi- 

 tudinally divided ; 8emila'tent(^a^eo, 

 I lie hid), when the progeny of an 

 abnormal individual repeats that 

 marked departure in only a few 

 individuals (De Vries) ; semilentic'- 

 ular (-|- lenticular), sublenticular 

 (Crozier) ; Senkilia'nes (+ Lianes), 

 applied to scrambling plants in 

 hedges and margins of forests 

 (Warming); Semili'chen(+ Lichen), 

 Zukal's term for forms which when 

 destitute of their appropriate Alga 

 can subsist as saprophytes, or 

 Fungi which can combine with 

 some Alga to form a Lichen ; semi- 

 loc'ular, semilocula'ris, semiloc'ulus 

 (-f locular), with incomplete dis- 

 sepiment, practically unilocular ; se- 

 milu'nar, semilu'nate, semiluna'tus 

 (+ lunate), lunate, shaped like a 

 half-moon, or crescent-shaped ; semi- 

 mesophyt'ic (+ MESf»PHYTic), in- 

 termediate between xerophytic and 

 mesophytic. 



se'minal, semina'lis (Lat., pertaining 

 to seed), relating to the seed ; <-' 

 Leaf, a cotyledon ; '-' Sport, = 

 Seed-sport; Se'minase, an enzyme 

 occurring in Trigpnella and Medi- 

 cago. 



Semina'tae {aemen, a seed), Van Tie- 

 ghem's term for plants furnished 



with true seed-coats; Semina'tio, 

 the act of natural dispersion of 

 seeds ; Se'mine, used by Grew to 

 include both his Semet and Chive, 

 the genitalia; seminiferous, -rus 

 {fero, I bear), (1) seed-bearing; (2) 

 used for the special portion of the 

 pericarp bearing the seeds ; (3) 

 = Dicotyledons ; '-' Scale, in Coni- 

 ferae, that scale above the bract- 

 scale on which the ovules are placed 

 and the seed borne ; sendnif ie 

 {facto, I make), forming or pro- 

 ducing seed ; Seminiflca'tion, pro- 

 pagation from seed ; seminiform'is 

 {foTTna, shape), applied to repro- 

 ductive bodies in Cryptogams which 

 are not part of the fructification; 

 Se'menin, a sinistrorse carbohydrate 

 occurring in reserve-cellulose in the 

 endosperin of some seeds (Reiss) ; 

 Se'minose, a dextrose form from 

 ordinary cellulose belonging to the 

 group of grape-sugars (Reiss) ; Se^mi- 

 nule, Semin'ulum, = SporE ; Semi- 

 nulif'erus ifero, I bear), (1) that 

 part of Cryptogams which bears the 

 spores, a sporophore ; (2) the cavity 

 of the ovary while the ovules are 

 yet unfertilized. 

 semiorbic'ular, semiorhicula'tus (semi, 

 half, -f orbicular), half-round or 

 hemispherical ; semio'val, scmiova'- 

 lis, semioVate, semiova'tus (-f oval, 

 half-oval, one side only, or ovate in 

 longitudinal halves ; semipetaloi'- 

 dens (+ petaloid), petaloid ; of 

 the shape or texture of a petal; 

 semi-pollica'ris. {pollex, a thumb- 

 breadth ; about half an inch in 

 length ; semira'dians, semira'diate, 

 semiradia'tus {radians, emitting 

 beams), when only a portion of the 

 outer florets of a Composite are 

 radiant and different from those of 

 the disk ; semire'niform, semireni- 

 formia {renes, the kidneys ; forma, 

 shape)i kidney-shaped on one side 

 only; semiretieula'tus {reiiculatus, 

 netted), when one of several layers 

 is netted, the others membranous; 

 semire vect'us ( revedus, carried back ), 

 ef. Septum ; somisagitt'ate, semi- 



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