GLOSSARY. 



Sinuate : strongly wavy ; with the margin alternately bowed inwards and 



outwards. 

 Simcs : a recess or bay ; the re-entering angle or space between two lobes or 



projections. 

 Soholiferous : bearing shoots from near the ground. 

 Solitary : single ; not associated with others. 

 Sorus (plural sori) : the proper name of a fruit-dot of Ferns. 

 Simdix : a fleshy spike of flowers. 

 S'pathaceous : resembling or furnished with a 

 Spathe : a bract which in wraps an inflorescence. 

 Spdtulate, or Spathulate : shaped like a spatula^ 

 Spicate : belonging to or disposed in a spike. 

 Spiciform : in shape resembling a spike. 



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

 Sjnkelet : a small or a 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 Sporocarps : spore-cases of Ferns, Mosses, &c. 

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



them taking the place of a seed. 

 Sjmr : any projecting ajipendage of the flower, looking like a spur, as that 



of Larkspur. 

 Squaniate, Squamose, or Sqitamaceous : furnished with scales (squamce). 

 Squdmellate, or Squdmulose : furnished with little scales {squamellce or squa- 



muloe). 

 Squdmiform : shaped like a scale. 

 Squarrose : where scales, leaves, or aiiy appendages, are spreading widely 



from the axis on Avhich they are thickly set. 

 Squdrrulose : diminutive of squarrose : slightly squarrose. 

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

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

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



stamen. 

 Standard : the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 



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

 rally occurs. 

 Stellate, Stellular: starry or starlike; 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. 

 Stigmdtic, or Stigmatose : belonging to the stigma. 

 Stipe (Latin sti^Jes) : the stalk of a pistil, &c. , when it has any ; the stem of 



a Mushroom. 

 Stipel : a stipule of a leaflet, as of the Bean, &c. 

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



plants. 

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