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HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS 



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exceedingly ornamental. They are valuable 

 hardy shrubs south of Washington. 



Skirret. See Sium. 



Skoke Berry. A local name for Phytolacca de- 

 candra. 



Skullcap. See Scutellaria. 



Skunk Cabbage. See Symplocarpus foBlidus. 



Sleep-at-noon. See Tragopogon pratensis. 



Slender Grass. See Leptochloa. 



SlipperTw^ort. See Calceolaria. 



Sloe. A common name for Prunus spinosa. 



Slugs. See Insects. 



Smaragdinus. Grass green. 



Smart Weed. See Polygonum. 



Smeathma'nuia. In honor of Smeathman, a 

 naturalist, who traveled in Africa, and col- 

 lected many botanical specimens. Nat. Ord. 

 Passifloracece. 



A small genus of white- flowered green-house 

 evergreen shrubs from Siei'ra Leone. Like 

 all this natural order, the flowers are quite as 

 remarkable for singularity of form as for 

 beauty. This genus, unlike any others of the 

 order, are upright shrubs instead of twining 

 plants. They require a warm house, and to 

 be well cut back to force into flower. Propa- 

 gated by cuttings. Introduced in 1823. 



Smilaci'na. False Solomon's Seal. From smile., 

 a scraper ; alluding to the roughness of the 

 stems. Nat. Ord. Liliace^. 



A small genus of hardy herbaceous plants, 

 with terminal racemes of small white flowers. 

 They are common in moist woods in the North- 

 ern and Western States. S. bifolia (syn. 

 Maianthemum bifolium) is a beautiful little 

 plant, about six inches high, and is popularly 

 known in the New England States as Wild 

 Lily of the Valley. All the species are worthy 

 a place in the garden for their long bunches 

 of beautiful, light-red, purple-speckled berries, 

 which remain until late in autumn. Propa- 

 gated from seed or root division. Syn. Sigil- 

 laria, Medora, etc. 



Smi'lax. Green Brier, Cat Brier. From smile, 

 a scraper ; the stems are rough from prickles. 

 Nat. Ord. Liliacece. 



The many species of this genus are coarse- 

 growing, troublesome, hardy climbers, justly 

 regarded as pests by farmers and gardeners. 

 The common Cat Brier of our hedgerows and 

 woods, a prominent member of this family, 

 has its reputation too well established to need 

 further description. The genus includes some 

 species celebrated for their medicinal proper- 

 ties. S. officinalis, a native of Columbia, 

 Guatemala and Lima, furnishes the drug 

 known as Sarsaparilla ; besides this, there are 

 several other species, the roots of which are 

 sold as Sarsaparilla. S. medica is the Mexican 

 Sarsaparilla and S. papyracea is the Brazilian 

 Sarsaparilla. S. China has esculent roots, 

 which are eaten by the Chinese and also used 

 in the manufacture of domestic beer. The 

 roots of several species of the Aralia are used 

 in the adulteration of Sarsaparilla. ' ' Smilax, " 

 popularly known as such, is the plant so ex- 

 tensively grown for festooning, and is des- 

 cribed under its proper name, Myrsiphyllum, 

 which see. 



Smoke Tree. See Rhus Cotinvs. 



SOF 



Smut. A Fungus which grows among the tissues 

 of the stamens, ovaries, and leaves of vai'ious 

 plants, but which especially infests Corn, 

 Wheat, Barley, Oats and other plants of the 

 same natural order. Owing to the Fungi 

 developing and growing within the host- 

 plants, no remedies can be employed that will 

 not kill the plant also; the affected plant 

 should therefore be rooted up and burned to 

 prevent the spread of the disease. 



Snail Flower. See Phaneolus Caracalla. 



Snail Plant. Medicago scufellata and M. helix, 

 the pods of which are called Snails from their 

 I'esemblance to those moUusks. 



Snake Cucumber. See Trichosanthes. 



Snake Root. Black. A common name for Actoo 

 racemosa and Sanicula racemosa. 

 Button. Various species of Liatris. 

 Canadian. Asa-rum Canadense. 

 Seneca. Polygala Senega. 



Snake Root, Virginian. Aristolochia serpen- 

 taria. 



Snake Root. White. See Eupatorium agera- 

 toides. 



Snake' 8-beard. The genus Ophiopogon. 



Snake's-head. Fritillaria meleagris, also a local 



name applied to Chelone. 

 Snake's-mouth. Pogonia Ophioglossoides. 

 Snake-w^eed. Polygontcm historta, 

 Snake-'wood. See Brosimum. 

 Snapdragon. See Antirrhinum. 

 Sneezeweed. See Helenlum autumnale. 

 Sneezewort. Achillea Plarmica. 

 Snow-ball. Wild. Ceanothus Americanus. 

 Snovyball Tree. See Viburnum opulus. 

 Suow^berry. See Symjihoricarpiis. 

 Sno'wr-bush. California. Ceanothus cordulatua. 

 Snow Creeper. East Indian. See Parana. 

 Sno^w-cups. Water. Ranunculus aquatilis. 

 Snovydrop. Crimean. Galanthus plicatus. 

 Snowdrop. Summer. Leucojum cBstivum. 

 Sno'wdrop. See Galanthus nivalis. 

 Snow^drop Tree. See Halesia. 

 Sno'w-flake. Autumn. Leucojum autumnale. 



Spring. Leucojum vernum. 



Summer. Leucojum wstivum. 



Winter. Leucojum hyemale. 

 Snowilake. The genus Leucojum. 

 Snowfla.ke Flower. See Styrax Japonica. 

 Sno'wflo'wer. Chionanthus Virginica. 

 Sno'w-flo'wer. Japanese. Deutzia gracilis. 

 Sno'w Glory. Chionodoxa Lucilim. 

 SnoTW in Summer. Cerastium tomentosum. 

 Snow on the Mountain. Euphorbia variegata. 

 Soapwort. The genus Saponaria. 

 Soap Bark Tree. Quillaja Saponaria. 

 Soap Berry Tree. Sapindus Saponaria. 

 Soap Bulb. A common name for Chlorogalum 



Pomeridianum. 

 Soap-Root. Egyptian. Vaccaria vulgaris. 

 Soboliferous. Bearing vigorous, lithe shoots 



from near the ground. 

 Soft Grass. A common name for Holcus mollis. 



