GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 221 



Shrub, Shrubby, 39. 



8u Vi -fills, 140. 



Sigmoid, curved ill two directions, like the l.'tter S, or the Greek siyma. 



Silicle, a pouch, <>r Bhorl ]»»1 of the Cretin family, I2i. 



SUiculose, bearing a silicle, or a fruit resembling it. 



8ilique, capeule nf the Cress Family, 12 i. 



SMquose, bearing Biliques or poda which resemble Biliques. 



Silky, glossy with a coat of fine and soft, close-pressed, straight hairs. 



Silver-grain, the medullary raya "f wood, 139. 



Silvery, sinning white <>r bluish-gray, usually from a silky pubescence* 



Simple, of one piece; opposed to compound. 



Sinistrorse, turned to the left. 



Sinuate, with margin alternately bowed inwards and outward-, 55. 



Sinus, a recess or bay; the re-entering angle between two lobes or projections. 



8Uep of Plants (so Jailed), 151. 



Smooth, properly speaking not rough, but often used for glabrous, i. e. not pu- 

 bescent. 



Soboliferous, bearing shoots (Soboles) from near the ground. 



Solitary, single, not associated with others. 



Sordid, dull or dirty in hue. 



Sorediate, bearing patches on the surface. 



Sorosis, name of a multiple fruit, like a pine-apple. 



Sorus, a fruit-dot of Ferns, 159. 



Spadiceous, chestnut-colored. Also spadix-bearing. 



Sjxulix, a fleshy spike of flowers, 75. 



Span, the distance between the tip of the thumb and of little finger outstretched, six 

 or seven inches. 



Spathaceous, resembling or furnished with a 



Spathe, a bract which inwraps an inflorescence, 75. 



Spatulate, or Spathulate, shaped like a spatula, 52. 



Species, 175. 



Specific Names, 179. 



Specimens, 18-4. 



Spermaphore, or Spermophore, one of the names of the placenta. 



Spermum, Latin form of Greek word for seed; much used in composition. 



Spica, Latin for spike; hence Spicate, in a spike, Spicifnrm, in shape resembling a 

 spike. 



Spike, an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile, 74. 



Spikelet, a small or a secondary spike; the inflorescence of Grasses. 



Sjane, 41, 64. 



S/>indlc-shaped, tapering to each end. like a radish, 36. 



Spinescent, tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. 



8pino*e, or Spiniferout, thorny. 



8piral Vessels or ducts, 135. 



Spithameoue, span-high. 



Spora, Greek name for seed, used in compound words. 



S/>nra</i<\ widely dispersed. 



Sporanr/ium, a Bpore-case in Ferns, &C, 1">3. 



Spore, a body resulting from the fruetilication of Cryptogamous plants, in them 



the analogue of a seed. 

 Spore-case [Sporangium), 158. 

 Sporocarp, 1 <;•_'. 



8port, a newly appeared variation, 1 7»». 



8poruh , same a- a spore, or a «mall ^-pore. 



8pume»cent, appearing like froth 



Spur, any projecting appendage of the flower, looking like n spur but hollow, as 



that of Larkspur, flg. 289. 

 Sqvamate, Squamose, <>r Rquamaceoui, furnished with scales (tguama). 



