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Sorus (plural sort] : the proper name of a fruit-dot of Ferns. 



Spadix : a fleshy spike of flowers. 



Spathaceous : resembling or furnished with a 



Spathe : a bract which inwraps an inflorescence. 



Spatulate or Spathulate : shaped like a spatula. 



Spicate : belonging to or disposed in a spike. 



Spiciform : a shape resembling a spike. 



Spike : an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile. 



Spikelet: a small or secondary spike ; the inflorescence of Grasses. 



Spine : a thorn. 



Spindle-shaped : tapering to each end like a radish. 



Spinescent : tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. 



Spinose or Spiniferous: thorny. 



Sporangia or Sporocaips: spore-cases of Ferns, Mosses, etc. 



Spore : a body resulting from the fructification of Cryptogamous plants, 

 in them taking the place of a seed. 



Sporule : same as a spore, or a small spore. 



Spur: any projecting appendage of the flower, looking like a spur. 



Squamate, Sguamose, or Squamaceous : furnished with scales (squamtz}. 



Squamellate or Squamulose : furnished with little scales {squamellcz or 

 squamultz}, 



Squamiform : shaped like a scale. 



Squarrose : where scales, leaves, or any appendages, or spreading widely 

 from the axis on which they are thickly set. 



Squarrulose : dimunitive of squarrose : slightly squarrose. 



Stalk : the stem, petiole, peduncle, etc., as the case may be. 



Staminate : furnished with stamens ; Stamineal : relating to the stamens. 



Staminodium : an abortive stamen, or other body resembling a sterile 

 stamen. 



Standard : the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Starch : a well-kown vegetable product. 



Station : the particular place or kind of situation in which a plant natur- 

 ally occurs. 



Stellate, Stellular : starry or star-like; where several similar parts 

 spread out from a common center, like a star. 



Stemless : destitute, or apparently destitute of stem. 



Sterile : barren or imperfect. 



Stigma : the part of the pistil which receives the pollen. 



Stigmatic or Stigmatose : belonging to the stigma. 



Stipe (Latin stipes] : the stalk of a pistil, etc., when it has any; the 

 stem of a Mushroom. 



Stipe I : a stipule of a leaflet, as of the Bean, etc. 



Stipellate : furnished with stipels, as the Bean and some other Legumi- 

 nous plants. 



