INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 
Scattered, 218, 1. 
Secund; turned to one side. 
Secundine, 90. 
Scrobiculate ; pitted or furrowed. 
Seed, 117, &c. 
“ vitality of, 134. 
Segments; parts or divisions. 
Seminal; of the seed. 
Sepals, 96. 
Septicidal, 115, 2. 
Septifragal, 115, 3. 
Septinate, 241, 10. 
Septum ; a partition. 
Sericeous, 41, a. 
Serrate, 235, 3. 
Serrulate, 235, 3. 
Sessile, 221. 
Setaceous, or setose ; bristly. 
Setose, 99, a. 
Sheath ; the lower part of the leaf or leaf- 
stalk which surrounds the stem. 
Shrub, 164, 6. Signs, 128. 
Silicle, 116, 3. 
Silique, 116, 2. 
Sinuate, 232, 16. 
Sinus; the recesses formed by the lobes 
of leaves, &c. 
Soporific ; inducing sleep. 
Sori; the patches of fructification on the 
back of the fronds of ferns. 
Spadix, 300. 
Spathe ; the sheath surrounding a spadix 
or a single flower. 
Spathulate; obovate, with the lower end 
much narrowed and tapering. 
Species, 50. 
Specific names, 362. 
Spermoderm; skin of a seed. 
Spike, 297. 
Spines, 171. 
Spinous, 235, 7. 
Spiral vessels, 33, a. 
Spongioles, 142, c. 
Spores, 129. 
Sporogens, 347 
Sporules or spores, 129. 
Spur, 107, a. 
Stamens, 57, 65, 73. 
- consist of, 66. 
sz and pistils, use of, 92. 
Staminate ; with stamens only, barren. 
Standard ; same as vexillum or banner. 
Stellate, 242, 5. 
Stem, 161. 
“ functions of, 208, 209. 
Sterile ; barren, unfruitful. 
Sternutatory ; exciting to sneezing. 
Stigma, 79. 
Stings, 42. 
Stipe ; the stalk of a pod, of a fungus, &c. 
Stipels, — 
Stipitate, borne on a stipe. 
Stipules, 249." a 
Stipulate, 251. 
Stolon, 192. . 
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Stoloniferous ; bearing stolons. 
Stomata, 37, 38, 39. 
Straight-veined; where the principal 
veins pass direct to the margin. 
Striz ; small streaks, channels or furrows. 
Striate ; with strie, slightly furrowed, &c. 
Strigose ; clothed with short, stiff, and 
appressed hairs. 
Strobile, 116, 15. 
Style, 78. 
Stylopodium; a kind of disk which is 
epigynous and confluent with the style. 
Sub; in composition, it denotes a lower 
degree of the quality, as sub-sessile, 
nearly sessile, &c. 
Submersed; under water. 
Subulate; awl-shaped. 
Succulent; thick, juicy, and fleshy. 
Suffrutescent; somewhat shrubby. 
Suffruticose ; same as the last. 
Sulcate ; furrowed or grooved. 
. | Superior, 97. 
Suture, $4. 
Symmetrical, 61, ¢. 
Syncarpous; when the fruit consists of 
united carpels. 
as pereange when the anthers are uni- 
ted into a tube, as in Composite. 
Systematic botany, 330. 
Tap root, 145, c. 
Tendril, 187, a. 
Terete ; rounded or cylindric. 
Terminai; borne at the summit. 
Ternate, 240, 4. “ 
Testa, 118. 
Tetradynamous; with 2 short and 4 long 
stamens. 
Tetragynous ; with 4 pistils. 
Tetrandrous; with 4 stamens. 
Thallogens, 351. 
Thallus; that part of Lichens which 
bears the fructification. 
Theca; the vessels which contain the 
sporules of the Cryptogamia. 
Thorn, 171. 
Throat; the orifice of the tube of the 
corolla. 
Thyrse, 305. 
Tomentose, 41, a. 
Toothed; dentate. 
—— ; uneven or undulating on the sur- 
ace. 
Torus ; receptacle, 59. 
Trailing ; creeping or lying on the ground. 
Transverse ; cross-wise. 
Tree, 164, a. 
Triandrous ; with 3 stamens. 
Tricuspidate ; having three points. 
Tridentate ; three-toothed. 
Trifid; three-cleft. 
Tripinnate, 239, 6. 
Triternate, 239, 8. 
Truncate ; blunt, as if cut square off. 
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