INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



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Scattered, 218, 1. 



Secund ; turned to one side. 



Secundine, 90. 



Scrobiculate ; pitted or furrowed. 



Seed, 117, &c. 



" vitality of, 134. 

 Segments ; parts or divisions. 

 Seminal ; of the seed. 

 Sepals, 96. 

 Septicidal, 115, 2. 

 Septifragal, 115, 3. 

 Septinate, 241, 10. 

 Septum ; a partition. 

 Sericeous, 41, a. 

 Serrate, 235, 3. 

 Serrulate, 235, 3. 

 Sessile, 221. 



Setaceous, or setose ; bristly. 

 Setose, 99, a. 

 Sheath ; the lower part of the leaf or leaf- 

 stalk which surrounds the stem. 

 Shrub. 164, 6. Signs, 128. 

 Silicic, 116, 3. 

 Silique, 116, 2. 

 Sinuate, 232, 16. 

 Sinus ; the recesses formed by the lobes 



of leaves, &c. 

 Soporific ; inducing sleep. 

 Sori ; the patches of fructification on the 



back of the fronds of ferns. 

 Spadix, 300. 

 Spathe ; the sheath surrounding a spadix 



or a single flower. 

 Spathulate ; obovate, with the lower end 



much narrowed and tapering. 

 Species, 50. 

 Specific names, 362. 

 Spermoderm ; skin of a seed. 

 Spike, 297. 

 Spines, 171. 

 Spinous. 235, 7. 

 Spiral vessels, 33, a. 

 Spongioles, 142, c. 

 Spores, 129. 

 Sporogens, 347 

 Sporules or spores, 129. 

 Spur, 107, a. 

 Stamens, 57, 65, 73. 

 " consist of, 66. 

 " and pistils, use of, 92. 

 Staminate ; with stamens only, barren. 

 Standard ; same as vexillum or banner. 

 Stellate, 242, 5. 

 Stem, 161. 



" functions of, 208, 209. 

 Sterile ; barren, unfruitful. 

 Sternutatory ; exciting to sneezing. 

 Stigma, 79. 

 Stings, 42. 



Stipe ; the stalk of a pod, of a fungus, &c. 

 Stipels, 251. 



Stipitate, borne on a stipe. 

 Stipules, 249. 

 Stipulate, 251. 

 Stolon, 192. 



Stoloniferous ; bearing stolons. 



Stomata, 37, 38, 39. 



Straight-veined; where the principal 



veins pass direct to the margin. 

 Striae ; small streaks, channels or furrows. 

 Striate ; with strise, slightly furrowed, &c. 

 Strigose ; clothed with short, stiff, and 



appressed hairs. 

 Strobile, 116, 15. 

 Style, 78. 

 Stylopodium ; a kind of disk which is 



epigynous and confluent with the style. 

 Sub ; in composition, it denotes a lower 



degree of the quality, as sub-sessile, 



nearly sessile, &c. 

 Submersed ; under water. 

 Subulate; awl-shaped. 

 Succulent ; thick, juicy, and fleshy. 

 Suffrutescent ; somewhat shrubby. 

 Suffraticose ; same as the last. 

 Sulcate ; furrowed or grooved. 

 Superior, 97. 

 Suture, 84. 

 Symmetrical, 61, c. 

 Syncarpous ; when the fruit consists of 



united carpels. 



Syngenesious ; when the anthers are uni- 

 ted into a tube, as in Composite. 

 Systematic botany, 330. 



Tap root, 145, c. 



Tendril, 187, a. 



Terete ; rounded or cylindric. 



Terminal ; borne at the summit. 



Ternate, 240, 4. 



Testa, 118. 



Tetradynamous ; with 2 short and 4 long 

 stamens. 



Tetragynous ; with 4 pistils. 



Tetrandrous ; with 4 stamens. 



Thallogens, 351. 



Thallus; that part of Lichens which 

 bears the fructification. 



Theca; the vessels which contain the 

 sporules of the Cryptogamia. 



Thorn, 171. 



Throat; the orifice of the tube of the 

 corolla. 



Thyrse, 305. 



Tomentose, 41, a. 



Toothed; dentate. 



Torose ; uneven or undulating on the sur- 

 face. 



Torus ; receptacle, 59. 



Trailing ; creeping or lying on the ground. 



Transverse ; cross-wise. 



Tree, 164, a. 



Triandrous ; with 3 stamens. 



Tricuspidate ; having three points. 



Tridentate ; three-toothed. 



Trifid; three-cleft. 



Tripinnate, 239, 6. 



Triternate, 239, 8. 



Truncate ; blunt, as if cut square off. 



Trunk, 189. 



