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primordial, earliest formed. through the partitions, 



procumbent, trailing on the ground, serrate, the margin cut into teeth 



proliferous, where a new branch rises pointed upward; saw-toothed. 



out of an older one, or one cluster serrulate, minutely serrate. 



of flowers out of another. sessile, not stalked, 



prostrate, lying flat on the ground. seta, a bristle, or bristle-like, 



pruinose, frosted. setaceous, bristle-like, 



puberulent, with fine short pubes- silicle, a short silique. 



cence. silique, capsule of the mu&tard fam- 



pubescent, with fine soft hairs. ily. 



punctate, dotted with minute holes. sinuate, with margins alternately 



puncticulate, minutely punctate. bowed inward and outward, 



puiig-ont, prickly-pointed. sinus, the angle between two lobes, 



pyriform, pear-shaped. smooth, no* rough, or sar.ie as gia- 



raceme, with 1-flowored pedicels ar- brous. 



rai.yod along a common peduncle, sordid, dirty in hue. 



tncse, bearing racemes. spadix, a fleshy spike of flowers. 



ra.cn is, the axis r especially of a spike, spathaceous, resembling, or furnished! 



receptacle, the axis or support of a with, a spath-e. 



flower. spathe, a bract which enwraps an in- 



rc-.?iTl".r, nil the parts of a circle simi- florescence. 



lar in s* spatulate, club-shaped, 



rcniforia : 2d. spike, flowers sessile on an elongated 



repand, wavy-margined, rachis. 



reticulated, netted. spinescent, tipped with a spine, 



retuse. with a blunt somewhat in- spinose, spiny. 



dented apex. spur, any hollow appendage which 



revolute, rolled back. looks like a spur, 



rootstock, rootlike, usually under- squ^mate, furnished with scales. 



ground stems. squarrose, where scales, leaves or 



rosulate, in a rosette. any appendages spread widely 



rotate, wheel-shaped. from the axis on which they are 



rugose, wrinkled. thickly set. 



runcinate, coarsely saw-toothed. stalk, stem, petiole, peduncle, etc. 



runner, a slender prostrate branch starninate, furnished with stamens. 



rooting at the ends or Joints. staminodium, an abortive stamen, 



saccate, sac-shaped. standard, th^ upper petal of a pap'Ji- 



sagittate, arrow-shaped. onaceous flower, 



saisuginous, growing in brackish stellate, star-like. 



places. stipe, the stalk of the pistil, 



salver-shaped, with a border spread- stipitate, furnished with a stipe. 



ing at right angles to a slender stipules, appendages situated or* 



tube. either side of the base of some 



samara, a winged fruit or key. leaves, 



scabrous, rough or harsh to the stolon, a trailing or reclined and* 



touch- rooting shoot, 



scape, a peduncle rising from the stomata, breathing pores of leaves. 



ground or near it. stramineous, straw-like, 



scapiform, scape-like. striate, marked with slender longi- 



scarious, thin, dry and membranous. tudinal stripes, 



scorpioid, curved or circinate at the strict, close and narrow; straight and 



end. narrow. 



scrobiculate, pitted. strigose, best with stout appressed 



scuttelate, saucer-shaped. hairs or bristles. 



secund, 1-sided. stylopodium, an enlargement at the 



septate, divided by partitions. base of the style. 



septicidal, where the dehiscence is subulate, awl-shaped, tapering from 



