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Siliquose : bearing siliqucs or pods which resemble siliques. 



Silky : glossy with a coat of fine and soft, close-pressed, straight hairs. 



Silver-grain of wood , p. 151. 



Silvery : shining white or bluish-gray, usually from a silky pubescence. 



Simple : of one piece ; opposed to compound. 



Sinistrorse: turned to the left. 



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

 wards; p. 62, fig. 116. 



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

 jections. 



Sleep of Plants (so called), p. 170. 



Soboliferous : bearing shoots from near the ground. 



Solitary : single ; not associated with others. 



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



Spadix: a fleshy spike of flowers ; p. 80, fig. 162. 



S}xithaceous : resembling or furnished with a 



Spathe: a bract which inwraps an inflorescence; p. 80, fig. 162. 



Spdtulate, or Spathulate : shaped like a spatula ; p. 58, fig. 92. 



Special Movements, p. 170. 



Species, p. 173. 



Specific Character, p. 181. Specific Names, p. 179. 



Spicate : belonging to or disposed in a spike. 



Spiciform : in shape resembling a spike. 



Spike : an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile ; p. 80, fig. 160. 



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



Spine: a thorn; p. 39. 



Spindle-shaped- tapering to each end, like a radish ; p. 31, fig. 59. 



Spinescent : tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. 



Spinose, or Spiniferous: thorny. 



Spiral arrangement of leaves, p. 72. Spiral vessels or ducts, p. 148. 



Sjwrdngia, or Spdrocarps : spore-cases of Ferns, Mosses, &c. 



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

 taking the place of a seed. 



Sp6mle: same as a spore, or a small spore. 



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

 Larkspur, fig. 183. 



Squamate, Squamose, or Sqnamaceous: furnished with scales (squamai). 



Sqiuamellate or Squdmulose : furnished with little scales (squamellce or squamulce). 



Squdmiform : shaped like a scale. 



Squarrose : 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- 



Stamen, p. 86, 111. 



Staminate : furnished with stamens; p. 89. Stamineal: relating to the stamens 



Staminddium. an abortive stamen, or other body resembling a sterile stamen. 



Standard: the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla; p. 105, fig. 217, 218, s- 



Starch : a well-known vegetable product ; p. 163. 





