GLOSSARY. 
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Silky 3 clothed with soft and shining 
appressed hairs. 
Silver-grain, 47. 
Simple, 61. 
Sinuate, 64. 
Sinus, 73. 
Smooth, 58. 
Solitary, 101. 
Sorus j a fruit-dot of Ferns. 
Spadix, 112 . 
Span (measure )3 9 inches. 
Spathaceous 3 spathe-like. 
Spathe, 112 . 
Spatulate j oblong, tapering down 
ward, the summit rounded and di¬ 
lated, like a spatula. 
Species, 232. 
Specific character, Sec., 237. 
Spicate ; spiked. 
Spike, 104. 
Spindle shaped, 21. 
Spine. 37 . 
Spinescent j spine-like. 
Spinose 5 bearing spines, spinulose 3 
ciliate with minute spines. 
Spongelets, 18. 
Sporangium j a spore-case, p. 620. 
Spores, Sporules, 227. 
Spur 3 a hollow extension of some 
part of the flower. 
Squamate 5 furnished with scales. 
Squamellate 5 bearing small narrow 
scales. 
Squamulae 5 minute scales, or those 
of the second rank. 
Squarrose ; covered with leaves, &c., 
which spread at right angles or 
more with the stem. 
Stamens, 140. 
Staminate, 140. 
Staminidia. 229. 
Standard, 159. 
Stellate 5 star-shaped 3 said of narrow 
divisions spreading from a common 
centre. 
Stem, 13, 26. 
Stem-leaves, 84. 
Stemless, 26. 
Sterile, 140. 
Stigma, 149. 
Stigmatic, or Stigmatose 3 relating to 
the stigma. 
Stipe, or Stipes 3 a stalk of a Fern, of 
a pod, &c. 
Stipulate, 95. 
Stipitate 5 raised on a stipe or stalk. 
Stipulate. 95 . 
Stipule, 94. 
Stolon, 33. 
Stoloniferous, 33. 
Stomata, 57. 
Stone-fruit, 182, 201. 
Striate 3 streaked with longitudinal 
lines. 
Strict 3 very straight or upright. 
Strigose; covered with close-pressed 
rigid hairs or bristles. 
Strobilaceous 3 like a 
Strobile, 208. 
Strbphiolate 3 bearing a 
Strbphiole 5 a tubercle at the hilum 
of some seeds. 
Struma 5 a cushion-like swelling 5 a 
protuberance at the base of the 
pod of some Mosses. 
Style, 140. 
Stylopodium j the thickened base of 
some styles. 
Sub-, a qualifying prefix, signifying 
somewhat 3 as sz/Arotund, somewhat 
round; swAcordate, slightly heart- 
shaped, &c. 
Subgenera, 235. 
Submersed ; buried under water. 
Suborder, 248. 
Subtribes, 249. 
Subulate ; awl-shaped, i. e. linear, 
very narrow, and taper-pointed from 
a broadish base. 
Sucker, 34 . 
Suffrutescent; slightly shrubby. 
Sulcate 3 errooved. 
Superior, 159. 
Supra-axillary 5 appearing above an 
axil. 
Sutural 3 belonging to a 
Suture, 164 . 
Symmetrical, 156. 
Syncarpous 3 the pistils combined 
into a compound ovary. 
Syngenesious, 147. 
Synonymes 3 names of the same 
meaning. 
Tail-pointed, bearing a very slender 
prolongation at the apex. 
Tap-root, 21 . 
Tendril, 38. 
Terete ; cylindrical or tapering, but 
round. 
Terminal; proceeding from the apex. 
Ternate, 79. 
Testa, 210. 
Tetradvnamous 3 having 6 stamens, 
of which 2 are shorter, p. 30. 
Tetramerous, 157. 
Tetmndrous, 146. 
Thalamus ; a name for the receptacle 
of the flower. 
Th&llophytes, 230. 
