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ScanDENT. Climbing. 
Scarg. A naked peduncle arising from the crown of the root, or from among the 
radical leaves. 
ScaPIGEROUS. Bearing scapes. 
ScariosE, Scarrous. Thin dry and membranous, not green. 
Scorprorp. Applied to a unilateral circinately coiled inflorescence, unrolling as 
the flowers expand. 
ScropicuLate. Marked by minute depressions. 
ScuTELLATE. Shaped like a small platter. 
Secunp. Turned or pointing to one side only. 
Szep. The ripened ovule, consisting of the embryo and its proper envelopes. 
SeamentT. One of the divisions into which a leaf or other organ may be cleft 
or divided. 
Sepaut. A name applied to each of the separate parts or divisions of a calyx. 
SEPALOID. Resembling a sepal. 
Sepratse. Divided by partitions or septa. 
Septicipat. When the cells of a capsule open through the dissepiments or lines 
of junction of the carpels. 
SEPTIFRAGAL. When the valves of a capsule in dehiscence break away from 
the dissepiments. 
Septum. A partition dividing a cavity. 
Sericeous. Silky; clothed witth soft straight appressed hairs. 
SERRATE. Applied to a leaf having its margin furnished with teeth like those of 
a saw. 
SmrRaAtTuRES. ‘Teeth like those of a saw. 
SERRULATE. Minutely serrate. 
SESSILE. Sitting directly on the point ot support without any intervening foot- 
stalk or petiole. 
Sera. A bristle of any kind; a stiff hair. 
Seraceous. Bristle-like. 
Setirorm. Having the shape of a bristle. 
SericpRous. Bearing bristles or furnished with bristles. 
Serose. Beset with bristles. 
Serutose. Provided with minute slender bristles. 
SueatH. A tubular envelope investing the stem, as the lower part of the leaf in 
orasses. 
Smuuicuue. A short pod or siliqua, not much longer than broad. 
Srurqgua. The pod-like fruit of the Crucifere, having two valves falling away 
from a frame (replum) on which the seeds are placed. 
Srmeie. Of one piece; not compound. 
Sryvuate. Having a deep waved margin. 
Styus. An angular or rounded recess or depression separating lobes or segments. 
SmootH. (1.) Having an even surface; not rough; opposed to “ scabrous.” 
(2.) Glabrous or free from hairs; opposed to ‘‘ pubescent.” 
Sorus. A cluster of sporangia in ferns. 
Spapix. A spike with a thickened fleshy rhachis and usually enclosed or 
subtended by a large bract or spathe, as in many Aroids. 
Sparse. Thinly scattered. 
SparHe. A large often coloured bract enclosing an inflorescence, usually a spadix. 
SpaTHuLaTE. Oblong, with the lower end much drawn out, so as to resemble a 
druggist’s spatula. 
Species. A group of all those individuals possessing the same constant and dis- 
tinctive characters. 
Sprcatse. Like a spike, or arranged in a spike. 
Spike. An inflorescence having several or many sessile flowers arranged on a 
lengthened axis, the lower flowers opening first. 
SprKELET. In grasses and sedges, applied to a cluster or small spike of one or 
more flowers, usually subtended by a pair of glumes. 
