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sanguina'lis ; causing effusion of blood, sanguis. 



sanguin'eus; blood-coloured, applied to different plants 

 and different parts of tliem ; Kumex sanguineus, in 

 reference to the leaves ; Cornus sanguinea, the twigs ; 

 Ribes sanguineum, the flowers. 



satiVus ; cultivated, from sew, satum, to sow, plant, or 

 propagate. *^^ 



saxat'ilis ; pertaining to rocks. 



sca'ber, sea bra, sca'brum ; scabrous, i. e. rough, covered 

 with ver}^ stiff short hairs. 



scelera'tus ; wicked ; applied to the celery-leaved crowfoot 

 (Ranunculus) on account of the extreme acridity of 

 its juices. I have known celery-leaved to be taken 

 for the literal meaning of sceleratus, on account of 

 the similarity in sound ; an odd, though not unnatural 

 mistake, which may at least serve as an aid to the 

 memory. 



scopa'rius; from scopce, thin twigs — hence the name was 

 also used, for besoms ; and scoparius means fit 

 for making besoms. We mean the same thing in 

 speaking of broom -tree, as though we said besom- 

 tree. 



scutella'ta ; salver- shaped ; (Veronica) scutellata, alluding, 

 I suppose, to the capsulei of two flattened orbicular 

 lobes. 



secali'nus ; secale-like ; not our seakale, but the se-ca-le of 

 Pliny, which means Rye. It was a name given by 

 Smith to a species of Carex, which is also called 

 hordeiformis, or barley- shaped. 



secun'da ; flowers turned in one direction, as in a species 

 of Wintergreen (Pyrola). This apparently curious use 

 of a word, which we should naturally take to mean 

 only second, is explained by its derivation sequunda 

 following either in rank, or order). 



