rusty 



Sambucene 



rus'ty, rubiginose, ferruginous, the 

 colour of iron rust. 



ru'tilant, rut'ilans, rut'ilus (Lat., red, 

 glowing), used for plants having 

 glowing flowers : red, orange, 

 yellow, or an admixture of these. 



rytidocar'pus (purls, pvridos, a wrinkle, 

 Kd/>7ros, fruit), when the surface of 

 the fruit is covered with wrinkles. 



sabulic'ola (sabtdum, sand, colo, I in- 

 habit) ; sab'ulose, sabulo'sus, grow- 

 ing in sandy places ; Henslow 

 prints the former word sabuti'colus ; 

 sab'uline (Crozier) is a synonym. 



Sac (saccus, a bag), a pouch, as Air 

 ~, an empty cavity in the pollen 

 of Pinus ; Em'bryo ~ , see EMBRYO - 

 SAC; sac'cate, sacca'tus, bag-shaped. 



sacchara'tus (aaccharum, sugar), 

 sugary, or yielding sugar, as the 

 sap of some species of maple ; sac- 

 cliariferous (fero, I bear), sugar- 

 bearing ; sacchari'mis (Lat.), 

 sugary ; Sac'charose, cane-sugar. 



sac'ciform, sacciform'is (sacctcs, a bag, 

 forma, shape), bag-shaped ; Sac'- 

 culus (Lat., a little bag), the 

 peridium of some Fungi ; Sac'cus, 

 sometimes applied to the coronet 

 of Stapelia, etc. 



Sac'cophytes (<rdva>s, a sack, <f>vrbi>, 

 a plant), Schuett's term for all 

 plants which are not PLACOPHYTES. 



Sacel'lus (sacellus, a little bag), J a 

 one- seeded indehiscent pericarp, 

 inclosed within a hardened calyx, 

 as the Marvel of Peru. 



Sachs's Cur'vature, a curved growth 

 of the root, due to a difference in 

 the rate of growth of the two sides 

 of the organ (Wiesner). 



Sack = SAC. 



sad' die-shaped, applied to such valves 

 of Diatoms as those of Coscinodis- 

 cus. 



Saffron, the dried stigmas of Crocus 

 sativus, Linn. , which yield a yellow 

 dye ; <~ col'oured, = crocatus. 



Sagit'tal, sagittate, sagitta'tus 

 (sagitta, an arrow), enlarged at the 

 base into two acute straight lobes, 

 like the barbed head of an arrow ; 



sagit'tiform, sagittiform'is (forma, 

 shape), arrow-shaped. 



Sa'go, granulated starch obtained 

 from the pith of certain palms, 

 especially from species of Sagus. 



Saint- ValerV Ap'ple, a monstrosity in 

 which the petals are sepaloid, the 

 stamens absent, and a double row 

 of carpels present. 



Sal'ep, the dried tubercles of some 

 species of Orchis, also spelled 

 Sal'op, Saloop'. 



Sal'icin, a glucoside occurring in the 

 bark of willows, species of Salix ; 

 Salicyrous Acid occurs in many 

 flowers, especially of Spiraea, pro- 

 bably by oxidation of its corre- 

 sponding alcohol, SALIGENIN. 



sa'lient (saliens, springing forward), 

 projecting forward. 



Salig'enin, an aromatic substance 

 formed by the decomposition of 

 SALICIN, etc. 



saline', sali'nus (sal, salis, salt), (1) 

 consisting or partaking of the 

 qualities of salt ; (2) growing in 

 salt-marshes ; ~ Mat'ters, chemical 

 salts occurring in plants, the union 

 of acids with bases. 



salmo'neus (salmo, a salmon) ; sal- 

 monic'olor (co/or, colour), salmon- 

 coloured, pink with a dash of 

 yellow. 



Salpigan'thy (<ra\triy^, a trumpet, 

 &v0os, a flower), the transformation 

 of ligulate or disk-florets of Com- 

 positae into conspicuous tubular 

 florets (Morren). 



salsu'ginous, salsugino'sus (salsugo, 

 saltness), growing in places inun- 

 dated by salt or brackish water, 

 as saltings; sal'sus (Lat., salted), 

 is used in the same sense. 



sal' ver- form, ~ shaped, hypocrateri- 

 morphous (A. Gray). 



Sama'ra (or Same'ra, Lat., the fruit 

 of the elm), an indehiscent winged 

 fruit, as that of the sycamore ; 

 samarid'eous, sam'aroid, samaroi'- 

 deus (elos, resemblance), used of a 

 fruit resembling a samara. 



Sam'bucene, a terpene derived from 

 Sambucus nigra t Linn. 



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