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HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS 



SAS 



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Sa'ssafras Laurel or California!! Laurel. 



Oreodaphne. 

 Sa'ssafras. Swamp. A common name for 



Magnolia glauca. 

 Sashes. A term most generally used for glazed 

 frames, which open for ventilation in a green- 

 house, or are used on pits or cold-frames, 

 etc., where they may be kept on or pulled off 

 as considered requisite. These latter are 

 called movable Sashes, and are generally 

 used six feet long by three feet wide. In 

 houses of modern construction, most venti- 

 lating Sashes are placed along the whole of 

 the roof on the south side, hinging them so 

 that they are made to open at the ridge-pole 

 by means of iron gearing and levers, and 

 which cost from fifty to sixty cents per run- 

 ning foot. 



Satin Flower. Sisyrinchium Calif ornicum. 

 Satin-leaf. Heuchera hispida and H. Americana. 

 " Satin-leavea" The dried seed-vessels of 



Lunaria biennis. 



Satin-wood. A beautiful veneering wood of 

 India, obtained from Chloroxylon Swietenia, 

 which see. 



Sativus. Cultivated. 



Sature'ia. Savory. From Ssattar, the Arabic 

 name for all labiate plants. Nat. Ord. La- 

 biatcB. 



The Summer Savory, 8. hortensis, is a hardy 

 annual, a native of the south of Europe, and 

 has been well-known in the kitchen garden 

 for the last three hundred years. Having 

 escaped from the garden, it has become 

 naturalized in many parts of this country, 

 especially in Ohio and Illinois. The Winter 

 Savory, S. montana, is a hardy evergreen 

 shrub, growing about a foot high, and very 

 branching. It is a native of the south of 

 France, is easily cultivated, and has all the 

 essential properties of the Summer Savory. 

 Grown from seeds, like Thyme and Sage, or 

 other herbs. 



Saty'rium. Supposed to be from satyrus, a 

 satyr. Nat. Ord. Orchidacece. 



Terrestrial orchidaceous plants from the 

 Cape of Good Hope. The leaves are very 

 curious from the flat manner in which they 

 spread themselves on the surface of the pot ; 

 and the flowers, which are generally yellow, 

 are very handsome. They should be grown 

 in very sandy loam or leaf mould, and kept 

 in a green-house, as they are very apt to damp 

 off, if over-watered. Propagated by division. 



Saunde'rsia. Named after W. W. Saunders, an 

 ardent English collector and cultivator of 

 rare and curious plants, 1809-1879. Nat. Ord. 

 OrchidacecB. 



S. mirabilis, the only species, is a stove- 

 house epiphytal orchid from Brazil. It has 

 medium-sized, greenish-white flowers, flushed 

 with yellow and purple. The stem or pseudo- 

 bulb is very short, and is one-leaved. The 

 species is cultivated more as a botanical curi- 

 osity than for its beauty. 



Saurau'ja. Named after Sauraujo, a Portu- 

 guese botanist. Nat. Ord. Dilleniacece. 



A small genus of tropical trees and shrubs 

 that have given the botanist considerable 

 trouble in their classification, it having been 

 placed in several different orders. S. lanceo- 

 lata is a stout, free-growing plant, vrith large, 



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alternate, bright green leaves, which are ob- 

 lanceolate in outline, and are marked regu- 

 larly by numerous depressed veins curving 

 outwards from the mid-rib towards the mar- 

 gin, which is armed by small, stiff, spiny 

 teeth. The leaves have an elegant appear- 

 ance, on account of their cheerful green color 

 and their conspicuous parallel divergent ven- 

 ation. The flowers are white, disposed in 

 panicles of several together upon stalks grow- 

 ing from the angles of the leaves. 

 Sauro'matum. From saura, a lizard, alluding 

 to the speckled interior of the spathe. Nat. 

 Ord. Aroidece. 



A small genus of tuberous-rooted, herba- 

 ceous, perennial, stove-house plants, natives of 

 tropical Asia and Africa. S. guttatum, S. ven- 

 osum and a few other species are in cultiva- 

 tion. 



Sau'ropus. From sauros, a lizard, and pous, a 

 foot ; the application is not apparent. Nat. 

 Ord. Euphorbiacece. 



A genus of plant-stove shrubs, with the 

 habit of Phyllanthus, natives of the East In- 

 dies and the Malayan Archipelago. S. albi- 

 cans Gardnerianus has oblong, ovate leaves, 

 acuminate at the apex, small, deep green, 

 with a grayish central blotch. The branches 

 are green, slender and angular. It was in- 

 troduced from Ceylon in 1861, and is propa- 

 gated by cuttings of the half-ripened wood or 

 by root-cuttings. 



Sauru'rus. Lizard's Tail. A small genus of 

 hardy, aquatic, perennial herbs, which gives 

 its name to the small Nat. Ord. Saururacece. 



S. cermms, common in our marshes and 

 swamps, has white flowers, in a dense spike, 

 nodding at the end. Other species, similar in 

 general appearance, have been introduced to 

 cultivation from Eastern Asia. Increased by 

 seeds or division. 



Saussu'rea. Saw-wort. Named after the Swiss 

 philosopher, De Saussure, 1740-99, who pos- 

 sessed a considerable knowledge of botany. 



A genus of herbaceous alpine plants, be- 

 longing to Nat. Ord. Composite, and compris- 

 ing about sixty species, with white tomentose 

 leaves and crowded tufts of rather large 

 purple flowers. The species are not very or- 

 namental and therefore not much in culti- 

 vation. 



Sauvage'sia. Named after F. B. de Sauvages, 

 Professor of Botany at Montpellier, 1706-1767. 

 Nat. Ord. Violariacece. 



A genus of about ten species of herbs or 

 sub-shrubs, all natives of tropical America. 

 S. erecta, the Iron Shrub or St. Martin's Herb, 

 is a charming little tender annual, with pink 

 or purple-red flowers, introduced from Mexico 

 in 1824. 



Savannah Flower. A name applied to Echites 

 suberecta and other species. 



Savin. Juniperus sabina. 



Savory. See Satureia. 



Savoy Cabbage. See Cabbage. 



Savoy Spinach. See Spinacia. 



Sawdust. This is occasionally used as a ma- 

 nure and sometimes as a mulch, or for pro- 

 tecting tender bulbs, etc., in winter. Its 

 manurial value is considerably greater when 

 it is well decayed, but more so when it is 

 used as an absorbent of liquid manures in 



