350 GLOSSARY 



Scales — RudimL-ntarv leaves. 



Sccniioii — Applied to substances like resin and honev, the 



production of assimilation and metabolism. 

 Sci/inn — A genus of succulent Alpine plants. 

 Sflliiblc — Any substance that dissolves in water. 

 Spdciix — The inflorescence of the Aroide^e. 

 SpatJic — The bract of the Aroideae. 



Sponiiigiiiin — The spore-case of some of the cryptogamia. 

 Spurious — False. 

 Stapelia — A genus of succulent plants, very poisonous and 



foetid. 

 Starch — Colourless grains, a product of assimilation in the 



leaf. 

 Stigma — The receptive part of the pistil. 

 Stipa — A genus of the grass family. 

 Stipules — Small outgrowths at the base of the petiole. 

 Stomata — Minute pores in the epidermis of the leaf or green 



stem. 

 Siilpliatc — A salt formed by the combination of sulphuric 



acid with some base. 

 Sycamore — The plane tree of Scotland, Acer pseudoplatanus. 

 Symbiosis — Mutualism, a living for one another, interchange 



of benefits by united growth. 

 Sv acarpous — United carpels. 



Tannin — A substance widely diffused througli the leaves 



and stems of plants, of an astringent character. 

 Tap-root — A root that forms an unbranched tapering axis : 



Ex., carrot. 

 Tendril — A coiled or hooked filament modified to assist 



plants to climb. 

 Tentacles — The glandular and feeler -like hairs of the 



sundew. 

 Terminal — At the apex or end. 



