second 



semi-amplectus 



secund', securidua (Lat., following or 

 second), parts or organs directed 

 to one side only, usually by 

 torsion ; secunda'tus (Lat., second 

 in rank) is given by Henslow 

 as synonymous ; secundiflo'rus 

 (flos, floris, a flower), the flowers 

 all turned in the same direc- 

 tion ; Sec'undine, the second, that 

 is, the inner coat of an ovule ; 

 Secundi'nae inter' nae, an old term 

 for ALBUMEN of a seed ; Secun' do- 

 spore (+ SPORE), C. Macmillan's 

 term for a spore which can also 

 act as a gamete, as in Ulothrix. 



Se'des Flor'is (Lat. ), J the torus of a 

 flower. 



Seed, the fertilized and matured 

 ovule of a phanerogamous plant ; 

 ~ Bed, Blair's word for PLA- 

 CENTA ; <*- Bud, in Milne's Dic- 

 tionary cited for OVARY ; ~ 

 Coat = TESTA; ~ Leaf, ~ Lobe 

 = COTYLEDON ; ~ Sport, a se- 

 minal variation ; ~ Stalk, the 

 FUNICLE or podosperm ; ~ Varia'- 

 tion, a variation arising from a 

 seed, and not a bud ; Vari'ety, a 

 variety produced from a seed- 

 sport, or one which comes true 

 from seed ; ~ Ves'sel = PERICARP ; 

 Seed'age, proposed by L. H. Bailey 

 for the state or condition of being 

 reproduced by seed ; Seedling, a 

 plant produced from seed, in 

 distinction to a plant propagated 

 artificially. 



segeta'lis (Lat., pertaining to stand- 

 ing crops), growing in fields of 

 grain. 



Seg'ment, Segmen'tum (Lat., a piece 

 cut off), (1) one of the divisions 

 into which a plant organ, as a leaf, 

 may be cleft ; (2) each portion of 

 meristem which originates from a 

 single SEGMENT CELL ; ~ Cell, the 

 basal portion which is successively 

 cut off from the apical cell in 

 growth ; Segmenta'tion, (1) division 

 into members ; (a) similar, as in 

 a thallophyte, or (b) dissimilar, as 

 in a cormophyte ; (2) the division 

 of the apical cell; (3) the primi- 



tive cell-divisions of the em- 

 bryo. 



se'gregate, segrega'tus (Lat., separ- 

 ated), kept apart ; a Se'gregate is 

 a species separated from a super- 

 species. 



Sei'rospore (o-eipA, a string or rope, 

 ffTropd, a seed), a spore produced in 

 a branched row resulting from the 

 division of terminal cells of partic- 

 ular branches in certain Ceramia- 

 ceae; adj. seirospor'ic. 



seju'gous, se'jugus (sex, six, jugum, 

 a yoke), having six pairs of leaflets, 

 as some pinnate leaves. 



Selection, Nat'ural, Darwin's ex- 

 pression for that which Herbert 

 Spencer has termed the ' ' Survival 

 of the fittest." 



Selenot' ropism (<re\^vr], the moon, 

 rpoir}], a turning), movements of 

 plants caused by the light of the 

 moon (Musset). 



Self, a florist's term for having the 

 same tint throughout, without 

 markings of other colours or tints ; 

 ~ -bred, the offspring of self- 

 fertilized flowers (F. Darwin) ; ^ 

 -col'oured, uniform in tint ; <- 

 Fertiliza'tion, fertilized by its own 

 pollen ; ~ Par'asitism, parasitic on 

 its own species, as sometimes 

 happens with Viscum ; ~ Pollina'- 

 tion, the pollen of the same flower 

 brought into close contact with its 

 own stigma; ~ Steril'ity, when 

 pollen though ripe is inoperative 

 on the stigma of its own flower. 



sellaeform'is (sella, a saddle, forma, 

 shape), saddle-shaped. 



Se'men (Lat., seed), the seed of 

 flowering plants ; ~ cornicula'tmn, 

 the receptacle of certain Fungals 

 (Lindley) ; ~ mul'tiplex = SPORI- 

 DESM. 



Se'met (semen, seed), a term used by 

 Grew and others for ANTHER, 

 cf. SEMINE. 



sem'i (Lat.), half ; semi-adhe'rent, 

 semi-adherens (adherens, sticking), 

 half-adherent, that is, the lower 

 part or half ; semi-amplec'tens, ~ 

 amplec'tua (Lat., wound about), 



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