sarmentose 



Bcaly 



(Henslovv) ; sar'mentose, sarmcnto'- 

 sics, sannen'tous (Lat., full of twigs), 

 producing long and lithe runners ; 

 Sarmen'tum, a runner, cf. Sahment. 



Sar'nian, H. C. Watson's term for 

 plants confined to the Channel 

 Islands ; Sarnia = Jersey. 



sathroph'ilous {aadphs, decayed; (tuXew, 

 I love), applied by Pound and Cle- 

 ments to those Fungi which feed 

 on " offal " ; Sathrophy'ta {(pvThv, a 

 ])lant), humus plants; Satlirophyt'ia, 

 sajtrophytic formations (Clements). 



Sat'iform (+ Form), a Noviform 

 which is reproduced by seed(Kuntze). 



sati'vus (La^t.), that which is sown or 

 planted, as opiiosed to spontaneous 

 or native. 



satura'te-vi'rens (Lat.), green as 

 grass ; a full deep green. 



Satura'tion, Relative = Relative 



S.VTURATION. 



Sat'us (Lat., a sowing), arising from 

 seed sown. 



Saur'ochore {(xavpos, a lizard ; x'^P^.'-^) 

 I spread abroad), a }>lant dissemin- 

 ated by lizards or snakes (Borzi) ; 

 Saurocho'ry (x^^P^^j asunder) is the 

 condition ; sauroph'ilous {<pi\ew, I 

 love), the adj. of Sauroph'ily, used 

 of fruits adapted for this mode of 

 dispersion. 



sau'sage-shaped, allantoid. 



Sautel'lus (Fr. sautelle, a vine shoot), 

 a bulbil, such as those of Lilium 

 tigrinum, Ker ; misprinted by J. S. 

 Henslow as " Santellus " with an 

 erroneous derivation. 



Savan'nah, xerophilous grassland con- 

 taining isolated trees (Schimper). 



saw-toothed, or sawed, serrate. 



sax'atile (Crozier), saxa'tilis (Lat.), 

 dwelling or growing among rocks ; 

 sax'icole, saxic'oline, saxic'olous 

 {rolo, I inhabit), growing on rocks, 

 as do many Lichens; Saxic'ola, a 

 dweller among rocks, printed by 

 J. S. Henslow as " saxi'colus " ; 

 saxif'ragous {fray, the root of 

 frango, I break), rock-breaking, as 

 plants which grow in crevices si^em 

 to be ; saxo'sus (Lat.), stony. 



Scab, a disease due to various Fungi, 



causing roughness of the cortex ; in 

 the potato it is ascribed to Soro- 

 sporiiim scabic-i, Fisch. de Waldh. , 

 in the United States attributed to 

 Oosfora scabies, Thaxter. 



scab'er (Lat.), rough, scurvy; scab'- 

 rate, scabra'tus, made rough or 

 roughened ; scab 'rid, scab'ridus; 

 scab'ridous (Lat., rough), somewhat 

 rough ; scabrid'ulous and scabridi- 

 us'culus, slightly rough ; Scabrit'ies 

 (Lat.), roughness of surface ; scab'- 

 rous, = scABER, rough to the toucli. 



scalar'iform, scalariform'is {scalaris, 

 pertaining to a. Isidder; for ma, shape), 

 having markings suggestive of a 

 ladder; -^ Conjuga'tion, when the 

 entire algal hlament is concerned 

 in the act of conjugation (A. W. 

 Bennett); -^ Duct, -' Ves'sel, a 

 vessel having scalariform markings, 

 as in many Ferns; ~ Marking, an 

 elongated pit of a scalariform vessel 

 (Crozier). 



Scale, (1) any thin scarious body, 

 usually a degenerate leaf, sometimes 

 of epidermal origin ; (2) a trichorae, 

 if disc-like ; (3) sometimes used for 

 Glume ; '-' Bark, outer bark which 

 is thrown off in scale-like portions, 

 as in the plane-tree ; '^ -formed, 

 shaped like a .scale ; ~ -hairs of 

 Ferns, clothing the stipes, often 

 resembling a leaf; '-' Leaves, cata- 

 phyllary leaves, usually on under- 

 ground shoots, but sometimes on the 

 above-ground portions ; '^ -trace, 

 the strand connecting scale with 

 stem in Bryophytes ; Scales, inter- 

 sem'inal, the scales of a cone-lik© 

 fruit' which are between successive 

 seeds or ovules. 



scaU'oped,. crenate. 



scalperiiform, scalpdUform'ia [seal- 

 pellum, a lancet ; forma, shape), 

 shaped like the blade of a penknife ; 

 often set vertically. 



sca'ly, squamose, scarious ; '- Bark, 

 that which is thrown off in patches, 

 as in the plane-tree ; ~ Buds, leaf- 

 buds of a strong character, that is, 

 well protected by scales ; ~ Bulb, one 

 having separate scales, as in lilies. 



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