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GLOSSARY. 



salsuginous, growing in brackish 

 places, 



salver-shaped, with a border 

 spreading at right angles to a 

 slender tube. 



samara, a winged fruit or key. 



scabrous, rough or harsh to the 

 touch. 



scape, a peduncle rising from the 

 ground or near it. 



scapiform, scape-like. 



scarious, thin, dry and mem- 

 branous. 



scorpioid, curved or circinate at 

 the end. 



scrohiculate, pitted. 



scuttelate, saucer-shaped. 



secund, 1 -sided. 



segment, a subdivision or lobe. 



sepal, a leaf or division of the 

 calyx. 



septate, divided by partitions. 



septicidal, where the dehiscence 

 is through the partitions. 



serrate, the margin cut into 

 teeth pointing upward; saw- 

 toothed. 



serrulate, minutely serrate. 



sessile, not stalked. 



seta, a bristle, or bristle-like. 



setaceous, bristle-like. 



silicle, a short silique. 



silique, capsule of the mustard 

 family. 



sinuate, with margins alter- 

 nately bowed inward and 

 outward. 



sinus, the angle between two 

 lobes. 



smooth, not rough, or same as 

 glabrous. 



sordid, dirty in hue. 



spadix, a fleshy spike of flowers. 



spathaceous, resembling, or fur- 

 nished with, a spathe. 



spathe, a bract which enwraps 

 an inflorescence. 



spatulate, club-shaped. 



spike, flowers sessile on an 

 elongated rachis. 



spinescent, tipped with a spine. 



spinose, spiny. 



spur, any hollow appendage 

 which looks like a spur. 



squamate, furnished with scales. 



squarrose, where scales, leaves or 

 any appendages spread widely 

 from the axis on which they 

 are thickly set. 



stalk, stem, petiole, peduncle, etc. 



stamen, the organ which bears 

 the pollen, composed of an 

 anther and usually a filament. 



staminate, furnished with sta- 

 mens. 



staminodium, an abortive sta- 

 men. 



standard, the upper petal of a 

 papilionaceous flower. 



stellate, star-like. 



stigma, the receptive part of 

 the pistil. 



stipe, the stalk of the pistil. 



stipitate, furnished with a stipe. 



stipules, appendages situated on 

 either side of the base of some 

 leaves. 



stolon, a trailing or reclined and 

 rooting shoot. 



stomata, breathing pores of 

 leaves. 



stramineous, straw-like. 



striate, marked with slender 

 longitudinal stripes. 



strict, close and narrow; straight 

 and narrow. 



strigose, beset with stout ap- 

 pressed hairs or bristles. 



style, the stalk between the 

 ovary and stigma. 



stylopodium, an enlargement at 

 the base of the style. 



subulate, awl-shaped, tapering 

 from a broad base to a sharp 

 point. 



suckers, shoots from subterra- 

 nean branches. 



suffrutescent, somewhat woody 

 or shrubby at the base. 



sulcate, grooved longitudinally. 



superior, above. 



suture, the line of junction of 

 contiguous parts grown to- 

 gether. 



