GLOSSARY OF SPECIAL TERMS. 



559 



Scapose. Having scapes, or resem- 

 bling a scape. 



Scarious. Thin, dry, and translucent, 

 not green. 



Scorpioid. Coiled up in the bud, or 

 in the beginning of growth, un- 

 rolling in expanding. 



Secund. Borne along one side of an 

 axis. 



Segment. A division of a leaf or 

 fruit. 



Sepal. One of the leaves of a calyx. 



Septate. Provided with partitions. 



Septicidal. A capsule which splits 

 longitudinally into and through its 

 dissepiments. 



Serrate. With teeth projecting for- 

 ward. 



Serrulate. Diminutive of serrate; ser- 

 rate with small teeth. 



Sessile. Without a stalk. 



Setaceous. Bristle-like. 



Setose. Bristly. 



Silicle. A silique much longer than 

 wide. 



Silique. An elongated two-valved 

 capsular fruit, with two parietal 

 placentae, usually dehiscent. 



Sinuate. With strongly wavy mar- 

 gins. 



Sinuous. In form like the path of a 

 snake. 



Sinus. The space between the lobes 

 of a leaf. 



Siphon. One of the usually elongate 

 cells occurring in bundles and form- 

 ing the thallus or its axis in cer- 

 tain Red Algae. 



Soralium (Soralia). Powder-like pus- 

 tules in lichens. 



Soredium (Soredia). In lichens, 

 small clusters of algal and fungal 

 cells. 



Sorus (Sori). A group or cluster of 

 sporanges; a heap of spores; a cir- 

 cumscribed superficial bed or ma- 

 trix, including reproductive cells. 



Spadiceous. Like or pertaining to a 

 spadix. 



Spadix. A fleshy spike of flowers. 



Spathaceous. Resembling a spathe. 



SpatJie. A bract, usually more or less 

 concave, subtending a spadix. 



Spatulate. Shaped like a spatula; 

 spoon-shaped. 



Spermatozoids. Cells developed in the 

 antherid, for the fertilization of the 

 oosphere. 



Spicate. Arranged in a spike; like a 

 spike. 



Spike. An elongated flower-cluster or 

 cluster of sporanges, with sessile or 

 nearly sessile flowers or sporanges, 



Spikelet. Diminutive of spike; espe- 

 cially applied to flower-clusters of 

 grasses and sedges, 



Spinose. With spines, or similar to 

 spines. 



Spimile. A small sharp projection. 



Spinulose. With small sharp proc- 

 esses or spines. 



Sporange{ium). A sac containing 

 spores. 



Spore. An asexual propagative cell. 



Sporocarp. Organ containing spo- 

 ranges or sori ; a few- or many- 

 celled spore-bearing body of sex- 

 ual origin. 



Sporogenous. Generating or bearing 

 spores. 



Sporophi/te. The asexual generation 

 of plants. 



Spreading. Diverging nearly at right 

 angles; nearly prostrate. 



Spur. A hollow projection from a 

 floral organ. 



Squarrose. With spreading or pro- 

 jecting parts. 



Stamen. The organ of a flower which 

 bears the macrospores (pollen- 

 grains). 



Stami)wdium. A sterile stamen, or 

 other organ in the position of a 

 stamen. 



Standard. The upper, usually broad, 

 petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Stellate. Star-like. 



Sterigmata. The projections from 

 twigs, bearing the leaves, in some 

 genera of Pinaceae. 



Sterile. Without spores, or without 

 seed. 



Stichidium. A specialized branch 

 bearing tetrasj^orangia, in the Red 

 Algae. 



Stigma. The summit or side of the 

 pistil to which pollon-grains become 

 attached. 



Stipe. The stalk of an organ. 



Stipitatc. Provided with a stipe. 



Stipules. Appendages to the base of 

 a petiole, often adnate to it. 



Stipidate. With stipules. 



Stolon. A basal branch rooting at 

 the nodes. 



