30 DICTIONARY OF 
Scaber, rough like a file. 
ScABRITIES, roughnefs. 
Scaxy (squamosus) like the skin of a fish 3 as the cups of 
Burdock. Pi. 4. f..25. (a.) 
ScanpeNs, climbing. 
Scapus, stalk, such as supports the flower, but not the leaves 
of a plant, ‘and rises immediately from the root ; ; as ip 
Narcifsus, Hyacinth, &c. PI. 6. f. 4. . 
ScaRrosus, skinny. | 
ScARRED (cicatrisatus) marked with scars where the leaves 
have fallen off, as are the Stems of some of the Spurges. 
‘ScRoBIFORME, like fine saw-dust, as are the Seeds of the 
~~ Orchis. 
ScroTrrorMe, purse-shaped. 
ScoLioppep (crenatus) inspect the edges of the leaves of 
Bird’s-eye and Gill, and you will have a true idea of this 
term; see also Pl. 7. f. 38. 35. and 34. Some leaves are 
doubly scollopped, asin Pl. 7. f. 33. : 
Scorep (striatus) marked with superficial parallel lines, as the 
~ cup of a Pink, or the stems of Butchersbroom. | 
Scurry (squarrostis) applied to a cup in compound flowers, 
the scales of which are bent outwards at the ends, so-as te, 
give the whole a rough ragged appearance. 3 
_ ScurELLUM, a saucer. % 
_ “ SeyMETAR-SHAPED, leaf (acinaciforme) a long fleshy Jeaf, 
* thick and straight at one edge, thin and arched at the other. 
Scyriirer, glafs-shaped ; as is the fructification of some of : 
the Lichens. 4 ce 
SEA-GREEN, see glaucous. 
Szam (sutura) the line formed by the union of the valves of @ 
-seed-vefsel. Thus the pod of a Pea is a sced-vefsel of two 
_valves, and the two seams where the valves join are suf- 
‘ficiently conspicuous : As also in pl. 5: t. 6. 
iste pointing one way. f 
SECURIFORMIS, shaped like an axe, oe oe 
SzEp (semen) a deciduous part of a vegetable, containing the 3 
rudiments of a new plant. It consists of the Heart, the 
Srep-Lopes, the Eye, and the Srrp-coat. See those — 
terms. Sometimes it is crowned with the cup of the 
flower, and sometimes it is winged with a down, or with @ — 
thin expanded membrane, whicli enables the wind to 
it abroad. See pl. 4. f. 22. and pl. 6. f.'3. © 
SeED-BUD, see Germen. | nats : 
Seep-coart (arillus) the proper coat of a seed which falls of 
spontaneously. It is remarkable in the Spindle-tree,H¢ 
Tongue, the Cucumber, the Fravinella, and the Mallow 
Some seeds have only a. dry covering or skin, as the Bat, a 
PL 8,43. tere5 > 
SEED-COVER (alee) the real cover of the seed. 
_ SEED-LEAVES, see Seminal-leaves, 
