RUTA, SARRACENIA. 407 



Exotic. 



patien"tia (garden dock, patience, 4), valves entire, one of them bearing a grain 

 like appendage ; leaves lance ovate. Naturalized. 

 101. RUTA. 26. 81. 



Exotic. 



irrave'oleni (rue), leaves more than decompound ; leafets oblong, terminal ones 

 obovate ; petals entire. 



32. SACCHARUM. 4.10. 



Exotic. 



ojficina'rum (sugar cane), flowers panicled, in pairs, one sessile and one pedicel- 

 led ; corolla 1 valved, awnless. From the East Indies. 

 1912. SAGITTARIA. 5. 13. 



sagittifo'lia (arrow head. O. w. Ju. 4), leaves lanceolate acute, sagittate ; lobes 

 lanceolate, acute, straight. Var. latifolia, leaves ovate, sub-acute, sagittate ; 

 lobes ovate, slightly acuminate, straight. Var. major, leaves large, abruptly 

 acute ; scape sub-ramose. 1 2 f. <S. 



11. SALICORNIA. 12.29. 



herba'cea (samphire, glasswort. L. Au. ), herbaceous, spreading ; joints com- 

 pressed at the apex, emarginate-bifid. Var. virginica, has the branches un- 

 divided, and the jointed spikes very long. The fructification is very ob- 

 scure ; but it maybe known by its leafless nearly cylindric jointed branches. 

 It grows in salt marshes along the sea-board. Onondaga salt springs. 12 

 18 i. S. 



202. SALIX. 50. 99. 



babylo'nica (weeping willow. E. M. > ), branchlets pendant ; leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, serrate, glabrous, upper and lower sides of different colours ; sti- 

 pules roundish, contracted : aments flower at leafing time ; germs sessile, 

 ovate, glabrous. Supposed to be the willow on which the Israelites hung 

 their harps, when captive in Babylon. Introduced. S. 

 21. SALVIA. 42. 39. 



Exotic. 



officina'lis (sage, b J. 4. or ^ ), leaves lance-ovate, crenulate ; whorls few- 

 flowered ; calyx mucronate. 



scla'ra (clarry. $ ), leaves rugose, cordate, oblong, villose, serrate ; floral bracts 

 longer than the calyx, concave, acuminate. 



53. SAMBUCUS. 43. 58. 



canaden"sis (black-berried elder. O. w. J. > ), branchlets and petioles glabrous ; 

 leafets about in 4 pairs, oblong-oval, glabrous, shining, acuminate ; cyme 

 lax, divided into about 5 parts. 8 15 f. 



puhes"cem (red-berried elder. O. w. M. >), bark warty ; leafets in 2 pairs, 

 lance-oval, pubescent beneath : flowers raceme-panicled, or in a crowded 

 bunch. 612 f. 



131. SANGUINARIA. 27. 62. 



canaden"sis (blood-root. O. w. Ap. 4), leaves sub-renilbrm, sinuate-lobed : 

 scape 1 flowered. A variety, stenopetala, has linear petals. 6 10 i. S. 



42. SANGUISORBA. 54. 92. 



canaden"sis (burnet saxifrage, w. Ju. 4), flowers in a long cylindric spike : 

 stamens several times longer than the corollas. The leaves resemble the 

 burnet. 3 5 f . S. 



52. SANICULA. 45. 60. 



marylan"dica (O. w. June Au. 4), leaves all digitate ; leafets oblong, deeply 

 serrate ; staminate flowers numerous, pedicelled. 2 f S. 

 102. SAPONARIA. 22. 82. 



Exotic. 



officina'lis (soapwort, bouncing bet. w. J. 4), calyx cylindric ; leaves lance- 

 ovate, opposite sub-connate, entire. Probably introduced, and naturalized. 

 1018 i. 



121. SARRACENIA. 54. 62. 



purpu'rea (side-saddle. O. p. J. 4), leaves radical, short, gibbose-inflated or 

 cup-form, contracted at the mouth, having a broad arched lateral wing ; the 



