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s^eds fixed along the sutures. The Silicate only difters from this, in 



form and size, ('siliqiia.) 

 Simple. Not divided or branched. (Simplex.) 



Sinuate lea . Having large curved breaks in the margin. ' (Sinu- 



atuin.) The oak furnishes many examples. 

 Spadix. a stem-like receptacle proceeding from a spatlic. 



THA or sjpathe. The caljx or spailix opening or burstin:>; lon^-it'i- 



dinally in form of a sheath. A spathe often consists of mo're valves 



than one and may be halved. 



Spathulate leaf. Roundish above with a long linear base: like a spa- 

 tula or battle-dore. (Spathulatum.) 



Spike. A mode of flowering in which sessile flowers are alternate, f-^^"^ 

 site, or verticillate, on a common simple peduncle: asiu Aiulieiii. 

 (Spica.) 



Spikele-i a little spike. (Spicula.) 



Spine or thorn. A sharp point being a continuation of tlie substance 

 of the wood itself. (Spina.) 



Spuu or horn. The hinder part of t!ie nectary in some flowers, shap- 

 ed like a cock's spur or horn. 



Squarkose calyx. Consisting of scales very widely divaricating, or 

 spreading every way. (Squarrosus.) 



Stamen. An organ for the preparation of tlie pollen consisting of 

 ' the filament and anther. 



Stem. The body of an herb, bearino^ the branches, leaves, and flow- 

 ers. (Caulis.) 



Stigma. The top of tjie pistil, pubescent and moist, in order to de- 

 tain the pollen. 



Stipe. The thread or slender stalk, which supports tlie pappus, and 

 connects it with the seed. (Htipes.) « 



Stipule. A scale or diminutive leaf at the base of a petiole, or pe- 

 duncle. (Stipula.) 



Striated stem. Marked or scored with slender or very superficial 

 lines. — (Striatus.) • 



Stiuct. Stiff and strait. (Strictus.) 



Strobile. A seed vessel or pericarp, made up of scales that are im- 

 bricate, or lie over each other: for an Anient in a state of maturit^r, 

 Pines aflford a u;ood example. (Strobihis.; 



Style. The middle portion of the pistil connecting the sti"-ma with 

 the germ. (Stylus.) ^ 



SuBERosE stem. ' Clothed with bark, soft and elastic like cork. (Su- 

 berosus.) 



Subulate leaf: Linear at bottom but tapering gradually towards the 

 end. (Folium subulatum.) 



SupERioa flower or calyx. Having the receptacle of the flower above 

 tne Germ. Superus.' 



Super decompound leaf. When a petiole divided several times con- 

 nects many leaflets; each part forming a decompound leaf (Su- 



pradecompositum.) 



Tkmete. Columnar, witliout amjles— resembling the shaft of a 

 column— I have retained the Latin term, as it is often applied 

 totwimng or procumbent plauts, whcr* columnar could scarcely 



