GLOSSARY. 



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Rufescent ; becoming reddish-brown, or 

 rust-colored. 



Rufous ; reddish-brown, or rust colored. 



Rugose ; wrinkled. 



Rugulose ; finely wrinkled. 



Ruminated; & term applied to a variegated 

 albumen i. e., when its substance is 

 wrinkled or plicate, and the investing 

 membrane prolonged within the folds. 



Riincinate ; resembling the teeth of a 

 mill-saw ; somewhat pinnatifld, with the 

 segments acute an<l pointing back 

 wards. 



Runner. A slender shoot, producing roots 

 and leaves at the end, only, and at that 

 point giving rise to another plant : exem- 

 plified in the Strawberry plants. 



Sac. .A membranous bag, or boundary of a 

 cavity. 



Saccate ; having, or being in the form of, a 

 sac, or pouch. 



Sagittate ; arrow-shaped ; notched at base, 

 with the lobes (and frequently the sinus) 

 acute. 



Salver-form, or salver-sluiped ; tubular, 

 with the limb abruptly and flatly or hori- 

 zontally expanded. 



Sam&ra. A kind of Akene, or dry indehis 

 cent pericarp, having a winged apex, or 

 margin, as the Maple, Ash, Elm, &c. 



Sdmaroid ; winged or margined like a Sa- 

 mara. 



Sdrcocarp. The fleshy portion of a pericarp 

 (ex. gr. of a Drupe) between the Epi- 

 carp and the Endocarp, 



Sa-fitn-ntofte ; having, or sending forth, or 

 being in the form of runners. 



Scabrous; rough with little points, or hairs. 



Scales Small thin plates, or leaf like pro 

 cesses ; also the leaflets of the involucre, 

 in the COMPOSITE. 



Scandent ; climbing, usually by means 

 of tendrils. 



Scapr. A peduncle proceeding directly 

 from the root, and mostly naked. 



ScaHouK ; dry and skinny, generally 

 transparent. 



Scattered ; disposed or distributed thinly, 

 without any regular order. 



Scnrj>'ioi<.l Inflorescence ; rolled back from 

 the apex icircinate), before development. 



Scro/i'n-ttlate. ; having the surface exca- 

 vated into little pits, or hollows. 



ScutMate ; shaped like, or resembling, a 

 target or shield. 



Seam. See Su,i<r/>. 



Secund ; one ranked ; all seated on, or 

 turned to the same side. 



S/'ed; the matured ovule, with the Embryo, 

 or young plant, formed within it. 



Segment, The division, or separated por- 

 tion, of a cleft calyx, leaf, &c. 



Semi; half; as semi-livalrefl, half 2- 

 valved, semi-terete, half-round, &c. 



Strnpermrent ; always green ; living 



Sepal. The leaflet, or distinct portion of a 

 calyx. 



Sepaloid : resembling sepals ; green and 

 not petal like. 



SepHcldal dehiscence. "When a compound 

 pericarp opens by splitting the dissepi- 

 ments i. e., the carpels separate from 

 each other, and open to the seeds by the 

 ventral suture. 



Sept'iferous ; bearing a septum. 



Septif agal dehiscence. When the dis- 

 sepiments remain attached to the axis, 

 while the valves break away from them. 



Septum. The partition which divides the 

 cells of fruit. 



Sericeous ; silky ; covered with soft smooth 

 .ppressed hairs. 

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vision or comprehensive group 



of objects in Natural History ; also, a 



continued succession of things of the 



same Order. 

 /Serrate ; sawed ; having sharp teeth on 



the margin, pointing towards the apex. 

 Serratures. The teeth, or sharp segments 



of a serrate margin. 

 Serrulate ; finely serrate ; having small 



teeth or serratures. 



Sessile; sitting clcsely; without any foot- 

 stalk or pedicel. 

 Seta (plural Seta). A bristle; a stifBsh 



elastic hair. 

 Set&ceouts; bristle-like; resembling a bristle 



in size and figure. 

 Setose ; bristly ; having the surface covered 



with bristles. 

 Sheath. A membranous expansion which 



is tubular, or convolute, and enclosing or 



embracing a stem. 

 Sheathed; enclosed or embraced by a 



sheath. 

 Sheathing ; embracing the stem with a 



sheath. 



Shining ; glossy smooth and bright. 

 Shrub. A small woody plant, branching 



near the ground, often without any prin- 

 cipal stem. 

 Shrubby ; hard and woody ; of the texture 



and size of a shrub. 

 S'llicle. A little' or short silique, nearly as 



wide as long. 



Sil'tque. A long slender pod, or membra- 

 nous seed-vessel of 2 valves, having the 



seeds fixed alternately along both sutures. 

 S'tUquoxe ; having siliques, or resembling 



a silique. 

 Simple ; undivided ; not branched ; not 



compound. 

 Simple Umbel. When each ray terminates 



in a single flower, instead of a secondary 



or partial umbel. 

 Sinuate ; having sinuses, scallops, or gashes 



which are open and rounded at bottom. 



Sin nnii -dentate, S-in note-* rrate; having 

 teeth, or serratures, with the clefts or 

 openings rounded at bottom. 



through the winter" and retaining its j Sinus. An open notch ; a rounded incision, 



verdure. or scallop. 



