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SALIX. 
America, require a stove in England, 
and they should be grown in light 
loamy soil. They are increased by 
suckers, which they send up freely. 
They are all of dwarf stature, and 
grow freelyin a somewhat moist heat. | 
Sa'ccnarum. — Graminee.—The 
Sugar-cane grows freely in England, 
if kept in a stove in a very rich 
loamy soil. It may be increased by 
suckers; or if a part of the stem be 
laid in a trench in the tan-pit, or in 
rich loam, where it has bottom-heat, 
it will form plants at every joint. 
Saccoia‘srium. — Orchidacea.— 
East Indian Orchideous Epiphytes, 
which should be grown on wood, but 
which are not very handsome, unless 
very closely examined. For their 
culture, see Orcuiprous Epipuy Tes. 
Sacrep Bean or Inpia.— See 
NeELv’ MBIuM. 
Sarrron.—Crocus Sativa.—See 
Crocus. 
Sace.—See Sa’iyvia. 
Saeirra‘r1a.— Alismacee. —Waz- | 
ter plants, some of which require a 
stove, others a greenhouse, and 
others are quite hardy. They should 
all be grown in loamy soil, with their 
stems in water; and they are in- 
creased by seeds or dividing the roots. | 
Saco Patm.—See Sa'cus. | 
Sa‘cus.— Palmeea.— A kind of | 
Palm, from the pith of the stem of | 
which Sago is made. The plants | 
should be grown in sandy loam, and | 
they should be exposed to a strong 
moist heat. The seeds are produced 
in a sort of cone, which is of a bril- 
liant shining brown, and very hand- 
some ; but the plant has never yet 
produced seeds in this country. 
Saint Acnes’s Flower. — The 
Snow Flake—See Leuco‘sum. 
Sat Barnasy’s Tutstte.—Cen- 
tauréa solstitialis. 
SainTFoin.—See Onosry'cuis. 
Saint Jown’s Breap.—See Cr- 
RATO'NIA. 
Saunt Jonn’s Wort.—See Hy- 
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Saint Marrin’s Flower. — Al- 
arene Flos Martini. 
Aint Perer’s Wort.—The Snow 
Berry.—Sce Sympno’zta. 
Sarica‘r1aA.—See Ly’rHRum. 
Saico’rnja.—Chenopodidcee. — 
Glasswort. Succulent British plants, 
which grow naturally by the sea- 
shore. When cultivated, they should 
be grown in silver-sand, and a little 
salt laid occasionally on the surface 
of the soil, so as to be washed in by 
watering or rain. One of the kinds 
is sometimes eaten as a culinary 
vegetable, under the name of Marsh 
Samphire. 
SaLissu‘R1A. — Amentdcee@, or 
Taxicee.—This very remarkable 
plant was originally called Ginkgo 
biloba, Ginkgo being its name in 
Japan. Its name has, however, 
now been altered to the more eupho- 
nious one of Salisbiria adiantifolia, 
the leaves resembling in form that 
of the Maiden-hair Fern, the botanic 
name of which is Adianium. As 
the Salisburia grows to a very large 
size, and as there are specimens in 
the neighbourhood of London above 
sixty feet high, it would not have 
been mentioned here, had it not been 
very ornamental when young. The 
tree has flowered at Kew and at 
other places ; but it has never borne 
fruit in England, though it has in 
France. 
Sa‘~ix.—Amentdcee or Salica- 
cee.—The Willow. A very exten- 
sive genus of ligneous plants, vary- 
ing in size from the tree Willow, of 
seventy or eighty feet high, to the 
creeping half-herbaceous kinds call- 
ed S. herbacea, S. vaccinifolia, &c 
Of these S. herbacee creeps so close 
to the ground that it forms on the 
Swiss mountains a kind of turf, not 
rising more than an inch above the 
surface of the ground, and yet 
forming, when closely examined, a 
complete miniature tree. All the 
kinds of Willow grow best in moist 
soil, or near water; and they all 
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