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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Saururaecaj, 4G9. 



Saw-toothed : same as Serrate. 



Suxatile : living in locky places. 



Saxifiagaccae, 424. 



Scab) ate, scubrid, or scabrous : rough to 



the touch. 

 Scaldriform : ladder-shaped, or barred. 

 Scalarifcrm dads, 4 6. 

 Scales : any thin scale-like appendages ; 



usually degenerated leaves, 105. 

 Seal I o peel : same as Cicnatc. 

 Seal n : furnished with scales, 95, 191. 

 Scammony, 455. 

 Scandent : climbing. 

 Scape : a flower-stalk rising from the 



ground or near it, 220. 

 Scdpiform, or scupoid : resembling a 



scape. 

 Saw: sec Leaf-scar and Hilum. 

 Scdiiose, or scdrious: thin, dry, and 



membranaceous. 

 Scatteied : cither sparse, or without ap- 

 parent symmetry of arrangement. 

 Schizandrese, 382 

 Scion: a shoot, especially one used for 



grafting. 

 Sciuroid: like a squirrel's tail. 

 Sclcranthcas, 396. 

 Scle'rogen : same as Ligninc, 36. 

 Scobiform, or srohicidui : like sawdust. 

 Scdrpioid : coiled loimd like a scorpion, 

 as the branches of the cyme of 

 Heliotrope. 

 Scroliculate : pitted. 

 Scrophulariaccoj, 448. 

 ScrdUfoim : pouch-shaped. 

 Sctaf: minute or bran-like scales on 



the epidermis, 52. 

 Scutate, scutiform : shield-shaped. 

 Scute'i/iforin : shaped like a platter (scu- 

 te/la). 

 Secretions, 51. 



Stride : divided into portions. 

 Sec it ml : all turned to one side of an 



axis. 

 Secundine : the second coat of an ovule, 



298 

 S'ed, 70, 320. 

 Smi-wssd, 308. 



Segment: one of the divisions or lobes 

 of a leaf or other organ ; 159, 275. 

 Se'iregate : kept separate 

 Semi-, in Latin compounds : half. 

 Semi-adherent: the lower half adherent. 

 Semi-amjilexicaul : half-clasping. 

 Semirordate : half heart-shaped (divided 



lengthwise). 

 Semi-double : half-double. 

 Semi-floscular : when the flowers of a 



head are ligulate. 

 Semilunar, or semilunate : like a crescent 

 or half-moon. 



Seminal : relating or belonging to the 



seed. 

 Seminifeious : seed-bearing. 

 Ssnuoi bicular : half-iound. 

 Semioval : half of ah oval, and 

 Semioeate: half of an ovate figure, di- 

 vided longitudinally. 

 Semtsaijittale : arrow-headed with one 



lobe wanting 

 Semiseptnte : a partition reaching partly 



acioss. 

 Semiterete : half-cylindrical. 

 Sempercirent : evergreen. 

 Senna, 414. 

 Sensitive plants, 345. 

 S^pal : a calyx-leaf, 222. 

 Scpa/me, sepalous : relating to sepals. 

 Sepaloid : resembling a sepal. 

 Separated floivos: the stamens and the 

 pistils occupying separate blossoms, 

 261. 

 Septate: with a partition (septum). 

 Septicidal, or septic de : dehiscent 

 through the partitions, i. c. by the 

 lines of junction ; 316, fig."582; 

 584. 

 Septifeious: bearing a partition. 

 Septifi ugid : where the valves separate 



fioin the dissepiments, 317. 

 Septum (plural septa) : a partition of 



any kind, 316. 

 Serial, or se'iiate: arranged in rows. 

 Seiiceoits: silky. 

 Senes: rank. 



SmOtinous : flowering or fruiting late. 

 Seirute: beset with teeth pointing- for- 

 wauls, like those of a saw, 159, fi"-. 

 254. 

 Se'natines: the teeth of a serrate body. 

 Serrulate : serrate with fine teeth. 

 Sesamcre, 447. 

 Se'sst/e. (sitting) : not stalked, 145, 211, 



281. 

 Setei : a bristle, or bristle-like body, 52. 

 Setaceous, sehform : like a bristle. * 

 S ttgeroiis : bristle-bearing-. 

 Setose: bearing or abounding with bris- 

 tles. 

 Se'tnla : diminutive of Seta 

 Se'tulose: bcaiing minute bristles. 

 Sex: six ; as in 

 S'rangular : six-angled. 

 Serfarious : six-rowed. 

 S"xpartite : six-parted, &c. 

 Sliaggi/ : sec Villon*. 

 Sheath : a tubular bod}-, enclosing or 

 surrounding- some" other; as the 

 base of the leaves of Grasses ; 1 70, 

 fig. 237. 

 Sheathinq : forming a sheath ; sec Va- 

 cillate. 

 Shields : sec Apothecia, 506. 



