XXVI GLOSSAET. 



Septifragal ; when a fruit splits by the separation of the backs 

 of the carpels from the septa. 



Septum ; the division of an ovary formed by the inflexed edges 

 of the carpels. 



Serrate ; toothed like a saw. 



Serratures ; teeth like those of a saw. 



Serrulate ; with very small sawlike teeth. 



Sessile ; without a stalk. 



Seta ; a bristle ; a bristle tipped with a gland ; a slender straight 

 prickle. 



Setaceous ; like a bristle. 



Setose ; bearing bristles or setae usually ending in glands. 



Sheath ; the lower part of a leaf or its petiole, which forms a 

 vertical sheath surrounding the stern. It is sometimes 

 found alone. 



Silicle ; a silique not four times as long as broad. 



Silique ; a long podlike fruit of Crucifers having its edges con- 

 nected by an internal membrane. 



Simple ; not compound ; not branched. 



Sinuate ; having many large blunt lobes and notches. 



Slashed ; with deep tapering incisions. 



Smooth ; free from all kinds of roughness. 



Sobole ; a creeping underground stem producing roots and leaf- 

 buds at intervals ; an underground stole. 



Soboliferous ; having soboles, or long underground shoots ending 

 in suckers. 



-Solitary ; growing singly. 



Spadix ; a succulent spike bearing many sessile closely placed 

 flowers. 



Spath ; a large bract often enclosing a spadix. 



Spathulate ; oblong, with a lor,# linear claw or haft. 



Spike-, a long simple axis with many sessile flowers; hence 

 spicate flowers. 



Spikelet ; the small group of flowers in Grasses enclosed within 

 one or more glumes. 



Spine ; a stiff sharp woody persistent thorn. 



Spinous ; furnished with spines. 



Spinulose ; with small, often very minute spines or prickles. 



Spiral vessels: fine tubes composed of membrane with spirally 

 twisted fibres internally. 



Sporules ; the seedlike reproductive bodies of flowerless plants. 

 Spur ; a tubular extension of the lower part of a petal or gamo- 

 petalous corolla ; a loose prolongation of the base of a leaf 

 beyond its point of attachment. 

 Spurred ; furnished with a spur. 



Squarrose ; covered with appendages spreading at right angles 

 or more. 



