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Siliquose : bcarin<]f siliqups or pods wliicli resemble siliques. 

 Silki/: glossy with a coat of line mid soft, close-pressed, struiglit liairs. 

 Silrer-tjrain of wooil , p. 151. 



Silveiy: shining white or hluisli-gray, usually from a silky pubescence. 

 Simple : of one piece ; opposed to coinjtoiiinl. 

 Sinistrorse.: turned to tiie left. 



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

 wards; p. 62, tig. 116. 

 Sinus : a recess or bay ; the re-entering angle or space between two IoIkjs or pro- 

 jections. 

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

 Soliolt/erotis : bearing shoots from near the ground. 

 Solitari/ : single ; not associated with others. 

 Sorus (plural soil) : the j)roper name of a fruit-dot of Ferns. 

 S/Kidix: a fleshy spike of flowers ; p. 80, fig. 162. 

 S/Hithaceons : resembling or furnished with a 

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

 Spdttilale, or S/>athulale : shaped like a spatula; p. 58, fig. 92. 

 Special Moremenis, p. 170. 

 S/yxies, p. 173. 



S/)eclJic Cliaractcr, 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. 

 Sjiine: a thorn ; p. 39. 



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

 Spinesrent : tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. ' 



Spinose, or Spinl/iroiis: thorny. 



S/iiral arrantjement of leaves, p. 72. Spiral vessels or ducts, p. 148. 

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

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



taking the place of a seed. 

 Spdrule: same as a spore, or a small sjiore. 

 Spur: any projecting ap])cndagc of the flower, looking like a sjiur, as that of 



Larkspur, fig. 183. 

 Spiamate, Si/iiamose, or Squamaceons : furnished with scales (squama'). 

 Sqnamifllate or Spidnmlose : furnished with little scales (squamellce or squamulce). 

 Sqttdmiform : shaped like a scale. 

 Sqiuirrose: wliere scales, leaves, or any appendages, are spreading widely from 



the axis on which they arc thickly .set. 

 Squdrrulose: diminutive of squarrvse ; slightly squarrose. 

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

 Stamen, p. 86, 111. 



Staminate: fnniisbed with stamens; p. 89. Slnminenl: relating to the stamens. 

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

 Standard: the upper petal of a pa])ilionaccons corolla ; p. 105, fig. 217, 218, *. 

 Starch: a well-known vegetable product; p. 163. 



