GLOSSARY. 



Shrub. Plant with a woody stem,! Subulate. Awl-shaped, narrow and 



branching nearer the ground than 



a tree, and smaller. 

 Silique. A long pod or seed-vessel ol 



two valves, having the seed attached 



to the two edges alternately. 

 Silex or silica, an earth, consisting of 



oxygen and a metalic base ; silicon, 



quartz, flint. 

 Silicate, a salt formed of silex or flint 



and an acid. 

 Soluble, capable of being dissolved in 



liquids, etc. 

 Spadix. Elongated receptacle of flow. 



ers, commonly from a spatha. 

 Sjiatha. A sheathing calyx opening 



lengthwise on one side, with one or 



more valves. 

 Spatulate. Large, obtuse at the end, 



gradually tapering into a stalk at the 



base. 



Specific. Belonging to a species only. 

 Spike. A kind of inflorescence in 



which the flowers are sessile, or 



nearly so, as in the mullein,or wheat. 



Spikelet. A small spike. 

 Spindle-shaped. Thick at top, gradu- 

 ally tapering, fusiform. 

 Spine. A thorn or sharp process grow- 

 ing from the wood. Spinescent. 



Bearing spines or thorns. Spinosus. 



Thorny. 



Spiral. Twisted like a screw. 

 Sporules. That part hi cryptogamous 



plants which answers to seeds. 

 Stamen. The part of the flower on 



which the artificial classes are 



founded. 

 Staminate. Having stamens without 



pistils. 



Stellate. Like a star. 

 Stigma. The summit, or top of the 



pistil. 

 Stipe. The stem of a fern, or fungus, 



also the stem of the down of seeds, 



as in the dandelion. 

 Stipule. A leafy appendage at the 



base of petioles, or leaves. 

 Strigose. Armed with close thick 



bristles. 

 Strobilum. A cone, an ament with 



woody scales. 

 Stomachic, relating to or good for the 



stomach, tonic. 

 Stomates, pores, small holes. 

 Style. The part of the pistil between 

 the stigma and the germ. 



sharp pointed. 



Succulent. Juicy ; also a pulpy leaf, 

 juicy or no/. 



Sucker. A shoot from the root by 

 which the plant may be propagated. 



Sulphate, a salt composed of sulphuric 

 acid, (oil of vitriol,) and any solid 

 base, as sulphate of soda, (Glauber's 

 salts,) etc. 



Superior. A calyx or corolla is supe- 

 rior, when it proceeds from the up- 

 per part of the germ. 



Suture. Line or seam formed by the 

 junction of two valves of a seed- 

 vessel. 



Sylvestris. Growing in woods. 



Syngenesious. Anthers growing to- 

 gether, forming a tube ; constituting 

 the class Syngenesia, being also 

 compound flowers. 



Synthetical, joining, uniting, com- 

 pounding. 



Tartrate, a salt foi med of tartaric acid 

 and a base, usually potash in vegeta- 

 bles, as the tartrate of potash. 



Tannin, an astringent principle of 

 plants, etc. 



Tegument. The skin or covering of 

 seeds ; as in the pea. 



Temperature. Degree of heat and 

 cold to which any place or sub- 

 stance is subject, as dependant upon 

 latitude. The mountains of the torrid 

 zone produce the plants of the frigid 

 zone. In cold regions white and 

 blue petals are most common ; hi 

 warm regions red and other bright 

 colors ; in the spring- we have more 

 white petals, and in autumn more 

 yellow ones. 



Tendril. A filiform or thread-like ap- 

 pendage of some climbing plants, 

 supported by twining round objects. 



Terminal. Extreme, situated at the 

 end. 



Ternate. Three together, as the leaves 

 of the clover. 



Tetradynamous. With four long and 

 two short stamens. Tetrandrous. 

 Having four stamens. 



Tissue, thin fabric or envelop com- 

 posed of or interwoven with small 

 fibres. 



Tomentose. Downy; covered with 

 fine matted pubescence. 



