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11. SALICQRNIA. (From an old French word, sahcsr., 

 tferba'cea, (samphire, glasswort. L. Au. *D) herbaceous, spreading 

 joints compressed at the apex, emarginate bifid. Var. virginica, has 

 :he branches undivided, and the jointed spikes very long. Tru 

 fructification is very obscure ; but it may be known by its leafless 

 nearly cylmdric jointed branches. It grows in salt marshes alonj? 

 the sea-board, and at Onondaga salt springs. 12 18. i. 



202. SALIX. 



Babyloni's*, (weeping willow. M. l^)branchlets pendant; leaves lance- 

 olate, acuminate, serrate glabrous, upper and lower sides of differem 

 colours ; stipules roundish, contracted ; aments flower at leafing 

 time; germs sessile, ovate, glabrous. Supposed to be the willow on 

 Mrhich the Israelites hung their harps, when captive in Babylon. ID 

 troduced. 



21. SALVIA. (From salvo, to save.) 



Exotic. 



Officina"lis, (sage. b. J. 7j.or T?) leaves lance-ovate, crenulate; whorls 

 few-flowered ; calyx mucronate. 



53. SAMBUCUS. 



Canaden"sis, (black-berried-elder. O. w. J. Tj) branchlets and petiole?? 

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

 acuminate; cyme lax, divided into about 5 parts. 8 15. f. 



6 1. SANGUINARIA. (From sanguis, blood.) 



C&naden"sis ) (blood-root. O. w. Ap. Q|) leaves sub-reniform, sinuate- 

 lobed; scape 1-flowered. A variety, has linear petals. 610. i. 



102. SAPONARIA. (From sapo, soap.) 



Exotic. 



Offidna'lis, (soapwort, bouncing bet. w. J. 9|.) calyx cylindric; leaves 

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

 naturalized. 10 18. i. 



10 2. SAXIFRAGA. (From saxum, a stone, and frango, to 



break.) 



Sarmentosa, (beef-st^ak geranium, w. Au. 7|.) leaves roundish, tooth- 

 ed, hairy; sendii.g off creeping shoots; 2 petals in each flower 

 longer. 



131. SCI; TELLARIA. (From scutella, a shield.) 

 Isitenflo'ra, (mad-'iog, scull-cap, hood-wort. O. b. Ju. Tj.) branching 

 glabrous; leaver long-oetioled, ovate, toothed; cauline ones sub-cor- 

 date ; racemes 1 tterai, leafy. Damp. 1 2. f. 



32. SECALE. 



Ccrea'fp, (rye. J ^) glumes and bristles scabrous-ciliate; corolla 

 smooili. Introduced. 



10 3. STLFNE. (From Silenus, a bacchanalian of ancieat times.) 

 *ennsi]l M idea, (pikk-catchfly. p. M. J. Ij.) viscidjy pubescent ; radicu 



