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Siliquose : bearing siliques or pods which resemble siliques, 

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

 Silver-grain of wood. ; p. 151. 



Silvery : shining white or bluish-gray, usually from a silky pubescence. 

 Simple : of one piece ; opposed to compound. 

 Sinistrorse : turned to the left. 



Sinuate : strongly wavy ; with the margin alternately bowed inwards and out- 

 wards; p. 62, fig. 116. 



jSlfniw : a recess or bay ; the re-entering angle or space between two lobes or pro- 

 jections. 



Sleep of Plants (so called), p. 170. 

 Soboltferous : bearing shoots from near the ground. 

 Solitary : single ; not associated with others. 

 Sorus (plural sori) : the proper name of a fruit-dot of Ferns. 

 Spadix: a fleshy spike of flowers ; p. 80, fig. 162. 

 Spatfiaceous : resembling or furnished with a 

 Spathe: a bract which inwraps an inflorescence; p. 80, fig. 162. 

 Spdtulate, or Spathulate: shaped like a spatula; p. 58, fig. 92. 

 Special Movements, p. 170. 

 Species, p. 173. 



Specific Character, p. 181. Specific Names, p. 179. 

 Spicate: belonging to or disposed in a spike. 

 Spiciform : in shape resembling a spike. 



Spike : an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile ; p. 80, fig. 160; 

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

 Spine : a thorn ; p. 39. 



Spindle-shaped- tapering to each end, like a radish ; p. 31, fig. 59 k 

 Spinescent : tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. 

 Spinose, or Spiniftrous: thorny. 

 Spiral arrangement of leaves, p. 72. Spiral vessels or ducts, p. 148. 



rdngia, or Spdrocarps : spore-cases of Ferns, Mosses, c. 



: a body resulting from the fructification of Cryptogamous plants, in them 

 taking the place of a seed. 



'rule: same as a spore, or a small spore. 



r: any projecting appendage of the flower, looking like a spur, as that of 

 Larkspur, fig. 183. 



Stjuamate, Squamose, or Squamaceous : furnished with scales (squamce). 

 Squame'llate or Squdmulose : furnished with little scales (squamellce or squamulce). 

 Squdmiform : shaped like a scale. 

 Squarrose: where scales, leaves, or any appendages, are spreading widely from 



the axis on which they are thickly set. 

 Squdrritlose : diminutive of squarrose; slightly squarrose. 

 Stalk : the stem, petiole, peduncle, c., as the case may be. 



men, p. 86, 111. 



minate : furnished with stamens; p. 89. Stamineal: relating to the stamens. 

 Stamhiridium : an abortive stamen, or other body resembling a sterile stamen. 

 Standard: the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla; p. 105, fig. 217, 218, *. 

 a well-known vegetable product ; p. 163. 



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