saw-toothed 



schistaceous 



a 



Henslow as " Santellus " with an 

 erroneous derivation. 



saw-toothed or sawed, serrate. 



sax'atile (Crozier), saxa'tilis (Lab.), 

 dwelling or growing among rocks ; 

 sax'icole, saxic'oline, saxic'olous 

 (colo, I inhabit), growing on rocks 

 as do many Lichens ; Saxic'ola, a 

 dweller among rocks, printed by 

 Henslow as " saxi'colus " ; saxi- 

 fragous (frag, the root of frango, 

 I break), rock-breaking, as plants 

 which grow in crevices seem to 

 be ; saxo'sus (Lat.), stony. 



Scab, a disease due to various Fungi, 

 causing roughness of the cortex ; 

 in the potato it is ascribed to 

 Sorosporium scabies, Fisch. de 

 Waldh., in the United States attri- 

 buted to Oospora scabies, Thaxter. 



sca'ber (Lat.), rough, scurvy; scab'- 

 rate, scabra'tus, made rough or 

 roughened ; scab'rid, scab'ridus ; 

 scab'ridous (Lat., rough), some- 

 what rough ; scabrid'ulous, and 

 scabridius'culus, slightly rough ; 

 Scabrlt'ies (Lat.), roughness of 

 surface ; scab'rous, = SCABER, rough 

 to the touch. 



scalar'iform, scalariform'is (scalaris, 

 pertaining to a ladder, forma, 

 shape), ladder- shaped, having 

 markings suggestive of a ladder; 

 ** Duct, <~ Ves'sel, a vessel having 

 scalariforni markings, as in many 

 Ferns ; ~* Mark'ing, an elongated 

 pit of a scalariforni vessel (Crozier). 



Scale, (1) any thin scarious body, 

 usually a degenerate leaf, some- 

 times of epidermal origin ; (2) a 

 trichome, if disc-like ; ~> Bark, 

 outer bark which is thrown off in 

 scale-like portions, as in the plane- 

 tree ; ~ -formed, shaped like a 

 scale; - Leaves, cataphyllary 

 leaves, usually on underground 

 shoots, but sometimes on the above- 

 ground portions. 



scalToped, crenate. 



scalpel'liform, scalpelliform'is (seal- 

 pellum, a lancet, forma, shape), 

 shaped like the blade of a pen- 

 knife ; often set vertically. 



sca'ly, squamose, scarious ; ~ Buds, 

 leaf-buds of a strong character, 

 that is, well protected by scales ; 

 ~ Bulb, one having separate scales, 

 as in lilies. 



scan'dent, scaridens (Lat. , climbing), 

 climbing, in whatever manner. 



Scape, Sea' pus (Lat., a stem), (1) a 

 leafless floral axis or peduncle 

 arising from the ground, as in 

 Cyclamen ; (2) the stipe of Fungi ; 

 Scapel'lus $ the neck or caulicle of 

 a germinating embryo (Lindley) ; 

 sca'peless, destitute of a scape. 



Scaphid'ium (scaphium, a hollow 

 vessel), the sporangium of Algae ; 

 Scaph'ium J the keel of a papilion- 

 aceous corolla ; Scaph'obrya (fipvu, 

 I sprout), a term applied to the 

 Marattiaceae, an order of Ferns in 

 which the frond rises from between 

 two stipular appendages forming a 

 socket. 



scaph'oid (<nc<0i7, a boat, el8os, re- 

 semblance), boat-shaped ; scaph'y- 

 form (forma, shape), used by J. 

 Smith for boat-shaped. 



scapiflo'rous, -rus (scapus, a stem, 

 flos, jloris, a flower), having flowers 

 borne on a scape ; sca'piform, 

 scapiform'is (forma, shape), re- 

 sembling a scape, a stem wanting 

 leaves ; scapig'erous (gero, I bear), 

 scape-bearing ; sca'poid (elSos, re- 

 semblance), scapiform (Crozier) ; 

 sca'pose, scapo'sus, having scapes ; 

 Sca'pus (Lat. ) = SCAPE. 



Scar, a mark left on a stem by the 

 separation of a leaf, on a seed by 

 its detachment, a cicatrix ; scarred, 

 marked by scars. 



sca'riose, scario'sus, sca'rious (scaria, 

 Late Lat., a thorny shrub), thin, 

 dry and membranous, not green. 



scarlet, vivid red, having some 

 yellow in its composition, 

 coccineus. 



scar'rose , a variant spelling of 

 squarrose. 



scattered, without apparent order. 



schista'ceous, -ceus (schistos, a stone 

 easily split, e.g., slate, + aceus), 

 slate-coloured, a deep-toned grey ; 



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