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INDEX AND VOCABULAEY. 



Sauru'rns, 203. 



Saxifraga.'ce,e, 460. • 



Sca'bcr, or Scabrous. Rough. 



Scales, 64, c. 



Sca'ly bulb, 37. 



Scan' dens. Climbing. 



Scape, 41. 



Sca'rious. Having a thin membraneous margin. 



Scat'tered. Stimdiug without any regular order. 



Scenery of American forests, 53. 



Scions. Shoots proceeding laterally from the 



roots or bulb of a root. 

 Scour' ing-Y\xs\\, 285. 

 ScRoruuLARiA'cE^i:, 487. 

 Sea-weeds, 'Zm, PI. 8, Figs. 8, 9, 10, 11. 

 Se'cund. Unilateral, arranged on one side only. 

 Sedffe, 275. 



Seed, 98, 103,104,114. 

 Segment. A part or principal division of a leaf, 



calyx, or corolla. 

 Sem'inal leaf, 52. 

 Sempervi'vcns. Living through the winter, and 



retaining its leaves. 

 Seneca snakeroot, 271. 

 Sen'na, 216. 

 Sen'sitivc fern, 285. 



plant, 216. 



Sep'al. Leaves or divisions of the calyx. 

 Sev'a/s, 67. 



— changed to petals, 109. 



and petals modified leaves, 69. 



Scp'ta. Partitions that divide the interior of the 



fruit. 

 Scp'tas, 204. 



Septif'erous. Bearing septa. 

 Serrate. Notched like the teeth of a saw. 

 Serrulate. Minutely serrate. 

 Serrulated, 54, d. 

 Ses'amce, 485. 

 Ses'sile, Sitting down ; placed immediately on 



the main stem, without a foot-stalk. 

 Se'ta. A bristle. 



68, b. 



Setaceous. Bristle-form. 

 Setose. Covered with bristles. 

 SAarf-blossom, 300. 



Shaft. A pillar, sometimes applied to the style. 

 Sheath. A tubular or folded leafy portion includ- 

 ing within it the stem. 

 Sheath' incr, 54,/. 



Shoot. Each tree and shrub sends forth annu- 

 ally a lar;,'e shoot in the spring, and a smaller 

 one from the end of that in June. 



Shrub. A plant with a woody stem, branching 

 out nearer the ground than a tree, usually 

 smaller. 



Siccus. Dry. 



Side-saddle flower, 230, PI. 3, Fig. 5. 



Silene, 221. - 



Sil'kle, 91, 239, 240. 



Silicrdo'scf', 411. 



Silitjuc', 91, 239, 240. 



Siiiquuso!, 411. 



Silk-cot' ton-true, 248, a. 



Sil'vcr-lrce, 180. 



Sim'ple, Not divided, branched or compounded. 



Sin'uate, 54, p. 



Sinus. A bay ; applied to the plant, a roundish 

 cavity in the edge of the leaf or netal. 



Skeieton of the leaf, 60. 



Sleep of plants, 62, d. 



S.MII.A'cEiB. 



Smith, Sir J. E., 355. 

 Smut, 324, 5th. 

 Snakeroot, 252, 271. 

 Snow'-ball, 191. 

 Sobo'les, 43. 

 Soiomon''s-sea\, 199, b, 

 Soi.ana'ce^, 496. 



So'ri. Plural of sorus ; fruit-dots on ferns. 



So'rose, 97. 



Spa'dix, 68, Fig. 96. 



Spa'tha, 68, Fig. 96. 



Spat'ulule. Large, obtuse .at the end, gradually 

 tapering into a stalk at the base. 



Spe'cies, 149. 



number of, 146. 



Specific. Belonging to a species only. 



names, 150, a, 



Sper'ma. Seed. 



Sper' modcrin, 99, 



Spice-hush, 2J3. 



Spiderwort, 199. 



Spige'lim, 466. 



Spike, 83, b. 



Spike'let. A email spike, 175. 



Spin' dlc-rooi, 34. 



Spin' die-shaped. Thick at top, gradually taper- 

 ing, fusiform. 



Spine. A thorn or sharp process growing from 

 the wood, 64, c. 



Spines' cent. Bearing spines or thorns, Fig. 50, a. 



Spina' sus. Thorny. 



Spiral. Twisted like a screw, 



vessels, 118. 



Sponn-e, 378. 



Spoii'gisles, 30, 40. 



Sporangia, 284. 



Spore-cases, 285, Fig. 217, Fig. 218. 



Spor'ules. That part in cryptogamous plants 

 which answers to seeds, 286. 



Spur, A sharp hollow projection from the co- 

 rolla, formerly called a nectary. 



Spurred rye. A morbid swelling of the seed, of 

 a black or dark color, sometimes cilled ergot ; 

 the black kind is called the malignant ergot. 

 Grain growing in low, moist ground, on new 

 land, is most subject to it. 



Squa'mose. Scaly. 



Squa'mula:, 68, b, 



Squa-r rose. Ragged, having divergent scales. 



Squill. 199. 



Sta'jnens, 79. 



regarded in the Linnasan classes, 77, c. 



modified leaves, 77, a, 



and pistils, 76, 77. 



Stayjiinace. Having stamens without pistils. 



ainent, Fig. 95, b, 



Stand'ard, Sec Banner. 



SxAPHYLA'CEiE, 439. 



Starch, 99. ^ 



Stella'tcB, 180, 466, Fig. 54, s. ^ 



Steilate. Like a star. 



Stem., 40. 



Stem'less. Having no stem. 



Ster'il. Barren. 



Stig'ma, 80, c. 



Stings, 64, d. 



Stipe, 41, c ; 102, 290. 



Stip'itate. Supported by a stipe. 



Stipule, 64, Fig. 59. a ; Fig. 64. 



Stolon, 4,3. 



Stnlonif'erous. Putting forth scions, or runnm;^ 



shoots. 

 Stoma ta, 23, 50, 61. 



Stramin'cous. Straw-like, straw-colorcil. 

 Stramo'nium, 185. 

 Strap-form. Ligulate. 

 Stratum. A layer : plural, strata. 

 Straw' berry, 228. 



Striate. Rlarked with fine parallel lines. 

 Stric'tus. Stiff and strai<j:ht, erect. 

 Strigose. Armed with close, thick bristle*. 

 Strobi/um, 97. 

 Struc'tu7-e of the leaf, 50-60. 

 Style, 80, b. 

 Stylidcs. Plants with a very long style. 



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