GLOSSARY. 



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



outwards. 

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



projections. 



Soboltferous : bearing shoots from near the ground. 

 Solitary : single ; not associated with others. 

 Sorus (plural sort) : the proper name of a fruit-dot of Ferns. 

 Spadix: a fleshy spike of flowers. 

 Spathaceoas: resembling or furnished with a 

 Spathe: a bract which inwraps an inflorescence. 

 Spdtulate, or Spathulate: shaped like a spatula. 

 Spicate: belonging to or disposed in a spike. 

 Spidform: in shape resembling a spike. 



Spike : an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile. 

 Spikelet: a small or a secondary spike; the inflorescence of Grasses. 

 Spine : a thorn. 



Spindle-shaped : tapering to each end, like a radish. 

 Spinescent: tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. 

 Spinose, or Spiniferous : thorny. 



Sporangia, or Spdrocar/>s : spore-cases of Ferns, Mosses, &c. 

 /Spore: a body resulting from the fructification of Cryptogamous plants, in 



them taking the place of a seed. 

 Spur: any projecting appendage of the flower, looking like a spur, as that 



of Larkspur. 



Squamate, Squamose, or Squamaccons: furnished with scales (squamw). 

 Squamellate, or Squdmulose: furnished with little scales (squamellce or squamu- 



fo). 



Squdmiform : shaped like a scale. 

 Squat-rose: where scales, leaves, or any appendages, are spreading widely 



from the axis on which they are thickly set. 

 Squdrrulose : diminutive of squarrose : slightly squarrose. 

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

 Stain/note: furnished with stamens. Stamineal: relating to the stamens. 

 Staminddittm : an abortive stamen, or other body resembling a sterile 



stamen. 



Standard: the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Station : the particular place, or kind of situation, in which a plant natu- 

 rally occurs. 

 Stellate, Stellular : starry or starlike ; where several similar parts spread 



out from a common centre, like a star. 

 Stemless : destitute or apparently destitute of stem. 

 Sterile: barren or imperfect. 



Stigma: the part of the pistil which receives the pollen. 

 Stigmdtic, or Sli<jmatose: belonging to the stigma. 

 Stipe (Latin stipes) : the stalk of a pistil, &c., when it has any; the stem of 



a Mushroom. 



Stipel: a stipule of a leaflet, as of the Bean, &c. 

 Stipe/late : furnished with stipels, as the Bean and some other Leguminous 



plants. 

 24 



