232 GLOSS AKY OF BOTANICAL TERMS. 



SARMENTOSE, producing long runners. 



SCABROUS, rough with little blunt projections. 



SCALARIFORM, tissue having bars in the form of a ladder. 



SCALES, minute leaf -like bodies. 



SCANDENT, climbing by means of supports. 



SCAPE, a radical peduncle bearing no leaves. 



SOARIOUS, thin, dry, and membranous. 



SCLEROGEN, the hard lining to woody cells. 



SCORPIOIDAL, curved as in the shell of a snail, or the tail of a 



scorpion. 



SECUND, turned to one side. 

 SEED, the matured ovule containing an embryo. 

 SEPALS, the segments of the calyx. 

 SEPTA or DISSEPIMENTS, the divisions of the seed-vessel. 

 SEPTICIDAL, a seed-vessel opening through the septa or partitions. 

 SEPTIFRAGAL, when the outer walls of the carpels break away 



from the septa, and open by the dorsal sutures. 

 SERRATE, toothed like a saw. 

 SERRULATE, very small teeth. 

 SESSILE, a leaf with no petiole. 

 SETA, a bristle or slender straight prickle in roses and brambles, 



a bristle tipped with a gland. 



SHEATH, the lower part of a leaf or petiole that encircles the stem. 

 SILICULA, a short pod, not over twice as long as broad. 

 SILIQUA, a long pod, several times longer than broad. 

 SIMPLE, not branched, not compound. 

 SINUATED, having large blunt lobes. 

 SOLITARY, growing single. 



SOROSIS, the compound fruits of the mulberry and pine-apple. 

 SORUS, a cluster of capsules or sporangia on the back of Ferns. 

 SPADIX, a fleshy spike of sessile male and female flowers. 

 SPATHA, a large bract covering a spadix; a membranous envelope 



to flowers when in the bud. 



SPATHULATE, shaped like a spathula; a leaf enlarging from the base. 

 SPERMATOZOIDS, small moving spiral bodies contained in anthe- 



ridia, or the male organs of Ferns. 

 SPIKE, an axis with numerous sessile flowers. 

 SPIKELET, a small group of flowers, inclosed by one or two glumes, 



as in the Grasses. 

 SPINDLE-SHAPED. See FUSIFORM. 

 SPINE, or THORN, an abortive branch terminating in a sharp point, 



connected with the wood, hence persistent. 

 SPINULOSE, covered with minute spines or prickles. 

 SPIRAL VESSELS, fine membranous tubes with a spiral fibre coiled 



internally. 



SPONGIOLE, the cellular extremity of rootlets. 

 SPORANGIUM, a capsule containing spores. 

 SPORES, the reproductive bodies in Cryptoyamia, analogous to the 



seeds of the higher plants. 



