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A POD ; as in the Wall-flower. [Plate 1. and 



Wood-cut, page 194.] 

 A LEGU'MEN ; as in Bird's-foot Clover. [Plate 



19 and Wood-cut, page 124.] 

 A BERRY ; as in the Holly, [Plate 7.], and in the 



Rose. [Plate 14.] 

 A CONE ; as in the Fir. 

 A DRU'PA, enclosing a nut ; as in the Cherry, 



and Peach. 



A POMUM ; as in the Apple. 



SEGMENTS; the divisions of leaves, blossoms, &c. 

 SESSILE. See SITTING. 



SHEATH (SPATHA) ; a kind of calyx, composed of a 

 thin, skinny, leaf: as in the Crocus, and Snowdrop. 

 [Plates 5. and 9.] 



SHRUB ; a term commonly applied to plants with a 

 perennial, woody, stem ; divided, near the ground, 

 into branches. Mezereon is a shrub. 

 SILTC'ULA (a little siliqua) ; a short broad pod. 

 SILICULO'SA (having siliculas.) The name of one 

 of the orders of the class Tetradynamia ; in which 

 the seed-vessel is a Silicula. 

 SIL'IQUA ; a long narrow pod. f Plates 1. and 17. and 



Wood-cut, page 194.] 



SILIQUO'SA ; the name of one of the orders of the 

 class Tetradynamia : in which the seed-vessel is a 

 Siliqua. [Plates 1. and 17.] 



SIMPLE ; applied to the stem or stalk, means undivided* 

 SITTING, or Sessile, leaves or flowers ; joined imme- 

 diately to the stem, without leaf-stalks or fruit-stalks : 

 as the leaves of the Germander Speedwell [Plate 

 3.], and the flowers of the Mezereon. [Plate 10.] 

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