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backwards. Cp. hastate. 



Silver-shaped, with a long tube and comparatively short 

 horizontally spreadi ng limb. 



Samara, a fruit with the pericarp compressed and expand- 

 ed into a wing, or each part of a schizocarpous fruit in 

 which the pericarp is thus modified. 



Saprophyte, a plant which feeds upon decayed organic 

 matter. 



Sarmentose, with long arching slender branches which 

 are often sub-scandent. 



Scabrid. covered with small hard hairs or points so as to 

 feel rongh to the touch. 



Scabrous, very scabrid. 



Scape, a peduncle which rises direct from the root. 



Scarious, dry and membranous* 



Schizocarp, a fruit which splits up into two or more 

 distinct portions (mericarps, cocci, etc.) each resembling a 

 separate fruit. 



Sclerenchymatous, applied to tissue, consisting usually of 

 more or less itodiametric cells, in which the cell walls are 

 very greatly thickened and hardened. 



Scorpioid, with the (apparently) lateral axes forming a 

 double row on one side of the usually curved (apparent) mai n 

 axis or sympo'dium. 



-sect, in composition means deeply cut, especially cut 

 nearly to the axis. 



Secund, all inclined in one direction. 



Seed, the ovule after fertilization and development ot the 

 embryo. The seed consists of the more or less modi6ed in* 

 teguments of the ovule which become the testa or seed coat 

 (see also aril, arillns^ sometimes a part of the tissue of the 

 nucelius which becomes filled with food material (perisperm), 

 frequently a tissue which has become developed inside the 



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