GLOSSARY. 335 



Scapus, a species of stalk which elevates the fructification, 

 and not the leaves, as in Narcissus. 



Scariosum/b/wro, a kind of roughness on the surface of leaves. 



Scitamina, fair, beautiful, an order of plants in the Fragmenta 

 methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 



Scobiform, very- small, like sawdust, or filings. 



Scorpioides^/fos, a flower resembling the tail of a scorpion. 



Scutellum, a species of fructification which is orbicular, con- 

 cave, and elevated in the margin, as in some species of 

 Lichen. 



Scyphus, a cup, by some botanists used for the Nectarium 

 of the Narcissus. 



Scyphifer, cup-bearing, a sub division of the genus Lichen. 



Secretoria scabrities, a species of glandular roughness on the 

 surface of plants. 



Secunda spica, a spike of grass with the flowers turned all 

 towards one side. 



Securiformis pubescentia, a species of pubes on the surface 

 of some plants, the bristles resembling an ax or hatchet. 



Semen, seed. 



Seminaleyb/z'ww, seed leaves. 



Semiteres caulis, half a cylinder, flat on one side, and round 

 on the other. 



Sempervirensyu/zwwz, an ever-green leaf. 



Senayb/zfl, leaves growing in sixes, as in Galium spurium. 



Senticosae, a briar or bramble, an order of plants in the Frag- 

 menta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 



Sericeum/o/Mtfz, a leaf whose surface is of a soft silky texture. 



Serratum folium, a sawed leaf. 



SemfatnmfvKum t minutely serrated, as in Polygonum am- 

 phibium. 



Sessile folium) a leaf growing immediately to the stem, with- 

 out any footstalk. 



Setae, bristles, a species of pubescence, covering the surface 

 of some plants. 



Setaceum/b//'wwz, leaves shaped like bristles. 



Sexus plantarum, plants are distinguished by the sex of their 



^ flowers, which are male, female, or hermaphrodite. 



Silicula, a little pod, a bivalve pericarpium, as in Draba ; see 

 the class Tetradynamia. 



Siliqua, a pod, a pericarpium consisting of two valves, in 

 which the seeds are fixed alternately to each suture, as in 

 Cheiranthus. 



Siliquosa, the second order in the class Tetradynamia. 



Siliquosae, 



