GLOSSARY AND IXD::X. 



549 



Shield-shaped: sec Tel tatc, 158, fig 248, 

 681. 



Shoot : any fresh branch. 



Shrul>, shiithby, 101. 



Sigdlate : as if marked with the impres- 

 sion of a seal, as in Solomon's Seal, 

 fig. 168. 



Sir/moid : curved like the Greek sigma, 

 or letter S 



Signs used in Botany, 517. 



Silencsa, 395. 



Si/icle: a pouch, or short pod of Cru- 

 cifcrao. 317, fig. 703. 



Siliculosa, 515. 



Sdiculose: having or resembling a sili- 

 cic. 



Sdique: a long pod of Crucifersc ; 317, 

 fig. 589. 



Siliquosa, 516. 



Siliquose: like a siliquc. 



Silk-cotton, 399. 



Silky : clothed -with fine, apprcsscd, and 

 glossy hairs, producing a satiny 

 surface. 



Silver-berry, 468. 



Sdrer-grain, 120. 



Simarubacerc, 405. 



Simple: of one piece or rank. 



Simple ft litis, 309, 311; leaves, 162; 

 pistil, 288. 



Sinisti drse : turned to the left. 



Sinuate: stiongly wavy on the margin, 

 with alternate convexities and con- 

 cavities ; 159, fig. 258 



S'nvs : a re-entering angle or recess. 



Slashed : same as Laciniate. 



Sleep of plants, 344. 



Smilaceaj, 492. 



Smooth : not pubescent or hairy, or else 

 (and more strictly) not rough. 



Snake-root, 412,462. 



Soap-hen y, 410. 



SoboHferom: bearing shoots (sobriles). 



Social (plants) : growing gregariously. 



Solanacca:, 4 56. 



Solitary : single ; alone. 



Soluble: scpatating into parts. 



Soie'diate • bearing little patches on the 

 suiface. 



Soiose : heaped, or bearing. 



Sordsis : a fleshy multiple fruit, like a 

 mulberry. 



Sori (sing, sorus) : heaps or patches, as 

 those of the spore-cases of most 

 Ferns, called in English fruit-dots, 

 501. 



Spadiccous : bearing a 



Spadix : a sort of fleshy spike, 213. 



Span : the length spanned between the 

 thumb and little finger ; seven or 

 eight inches. 



Sparse : scattered and generally scanty. 



Spatluiceous : bcai ing a 



Spat he : the enveloping bract of a spa- 

 dix, 213. 



Spdthulate, or tpatulate: shaped like a 

 druggist's spatula. 



Special directions, 341. 



Species, 19, 354. 



Sperifc : relating to species. 



Spe'rmaphore: a name for the placenta, 

 or the funiculus of the seed. 



Spermatozoids, 334. 



Speitnic, or spermous : relating to the 

 seed. 



Spe'rmoderm : the outer seed-coat, 320. 



Spicute: relating to or disposed in a 

 spike. 



Sptriform : spike-like. 



Spicvla: a spikclct. 



Spike: a prolonged indefinite infic- 

 resccncc with sessile flowers, 212. 



Spikelet: a diminutive or secondary 

 spike ; the ultimate flower-clusters 

 of Grasses. 



Spikenard, 435. 



Spindle-shaped, 84, fig. 138. 



Spine, 104, 167. 



Spmescetit : tipped with a spine, 104. 



Spinose: spiny, 104. 



Spinulose: bearing diminutive spines. 



Sp nil: as if wound round an axis. 



Sphal arrangement of leaves, 134. 



Spiral markings on cells, 39. 



Spiral i>essels or ducts, 46. 



Spircas, 416. 



Spithainasous : a span high. 



SpoiHjioles, or spongelets, 80. 



Spongy : of the texture of sponge. 



Spontaneous movements, 340, 347. 



Sporadic: widely dispersed. 



Sporangium : a spore-case, 337, 500 &c. 



Spore:' the body in Oryptogamous 

 plants which answers to the seed iu 

 the Phrcnogamous, 6!, 70, 331. 



Spore-case, 337. 



Sporiferous : sporc-bcaring. 



Spdrocaip: a kind of spoiangium, 502. 



Spoils, 356. 



Spdru/e: a spore, or small spore. 



Spornlifnous : hearing sporules. 



Spumescent, spumose : froth-like. 



Spur: any tubular projection, 278. 



Spurred: "bearing a spur, 278. 



Squamate, snuamoie, sipiamiferous : fur- 

 nished with scales (squama?). 



Squdmcllate : with or resembling- minute 

 and narrow scales (squamclhe, 497). 



Squdmiform : scale-shaped. 



Squcimulifnrm : like a small scale, or 



Squdmula, 497. 



Sqiidmulose : covered with small scales. 



Squarrose: where scales, small leaves, 

 or other bodies, spread widely from 



