GLOSSARY. 



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Secund; onesided; all seated on, or turned Sinus; an open notch; a rounded incis- 

 ion, or scallop. 



Soboliferous ; producing young plants 

 from the roots. 



Solitary ; standing alone ; one only in a 

 place. 



Soredia; minute sorus-like masses, or 

 reproductive particles, on Lichens. 



Sorediate ; covered with soredia, or irreg- 

 ular powdery masses. 



Sorediiferous ; bearing soredia. 



to, one side. 



Seed ; the matured ovule, with the em 

 bryo, or young plant, formed within it. 



Segment ; the division, or separated por- 

 tion, of a cleft calyx, leaf, Ac. 



Semi, in composition ; half, as semi-bi 

 valved, half 2-valved, semi-terete, half 

 round, Ac. 



Seminal ; belonging to the seed. 



Sempervirent ; evergreen. 



Sepal; the leaflet, or distinct portion of a Sort (plural of sorus); fruit-dots; small 



calyx. 



Sepaloidt resembling a sepal ; green and 

 not petal-like. 



Septicidal dehiscence ; where a compound 

 pericarp opens by splitting the dissepi- 

 ments, i. e. the carpels separate from 

 each other, and usually open to the 

 seeds by the ventral suture. 



Septiferous; bearing a septum. 



Septifragal dehiscence ; where the dis- 

 sepiments remain attached to the axis, 

 while the valves break away from them 



Septum; the partition which divides the 

 cells of fruit. 



Sericeous ; silky ; clothed with soft glossy 

 appressed hairs. 



Series ; a continued succession of things 

 in the same order; also, a comprehen- 

 sive group of objects, in Natural His- 

 tory. 



Serrate; pawed; having sharp teeth on 

 the margin pointing toward the apex. 



Serratures ; the teeth of a serrated mar- 

 gin. 



Serrulate; finely serrate. 



Sessile ; sitting closely ; having no foot- 

 stalk, or pedicel. 



Seta, (plural, Setae); a bristle, or stiffish 

 elastic hair. 



Setaceous ; bristle-like. 



Setose ; beset with bristles. 



Sheath; a membranous expansion which Spindle-shaped; see Fusiform. 

 is tubular, or convolute, and inclosing Spine ; a thorn ; a sharp process originat- 

 or embracing a stem. ing in the wood, i. e. a pointed, abor- 



Sheathed; inclosed by a sheath. tive branch. 



Sheathing; embracing the stem like a 

 sheath. 



Sliining ; smooth, glossy and bright. 



Shrub; a small woody plant not exceed- 

 ing 3 times the height of a man. 



Shrubby ; hard and woody, like a shrub ; 

 of the texture and size of a shrub. 



Silicle ; a little, or short silique, nearly 

 as wide as long. 



Silique; a long, slender, membranous 

 pericarp, of 2 valves, having the seeds 

 fixed alternately along both sutures. 



Siliquose ; having siliques, or resembling 

 a silique. 



Simple; undivided; not compound. 



Simple umbel ; where each ray termin- 

 ates in a single flower. 



Sinuate ; having sinuses, or scallops, 

 which are open and rounded at bottom. 



Sinuate-dentate, and sinuate serrate ; hav- 

 ing teeth, or serratures, with the clefts 

 or openings rounded at bottom. 



clusters of sporanges, on the back of 

 the fronds, in Ferns. 



Spadix ; a dense-flowered, fleshy, club- 

 like spike, usually accompanied by a 

 sheathing involucre, called a spathe. 



Span ; a measure of 9 inches. 



Spathaceous ; having, or resembling, a 

 spathe. 



Spathe ; a sheathing kind of bract, or in- 

 volucre, open on one side, containing, 

 or accompanying, a spadix. 



Spatulate ; like a spatula ; obovate-ob- 

 long. or larger and rounded at apex, 

 and tapering to the base. 



Species; the lowest permanent division 

 of natural objects, in a systematic ar- 

 rangement ; a group comprising all 

 similar individuals. 



Specific; belonging to, or distinguishing, 

 the species. 



Sphacelate; dark-colored; as if gangren- 

 ous, or dead. 



Sphagnous; full of bog-moss, or Sphag- 

 num. 



Spicate ; in the form, or after the man- 

 ner, of a spike. 



Spike ; a kind of inflorescence in which 

 the flowers are sessile on the sides of a 

 common peduncle, or rachis. 



Spikelet; a little spike, or subdivision, 

 of a compound spike. 



Spintttose ; armed with minute spines. 

 Spinescent ; becoming thorny, or inclin- 

 ing to be thorny, 



Spinose ; thorny ; arnred with thorne. 

 Spinulose ; covered with small spines. 

 Sporange ; a spore case, a vessel or cell 



containing spores ; the pericarp of cryp- 



togamous plants. 

 Spores^, sporidia, or sporules ; the seminal 



equivalents, or analogues of seeds, in 



cryptugamous plants. 

 Sporocarp; a synonym (nearly) of spor- 



ange. 

 Spur; a tapering hollow extension of 



some part of a flower, usually of the 



petals. 

 Spurred; having a spur, or spur-like 



elongations. 



Squamate ; furnished with scales. 

 Squamose; scaly; resembling scales. 

 Squarrose ; jagged ; having spreading tips, 



or divaricate points, all round. 



