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GLOSSARY. 



S. 



Saccate, sac-shaped. 

 Sagittate, arrow-shaped, the basal 



lobes directed downward. 

 Salver-shaped, with a border 



spreading at right angles to the 



tube. 

 Samara, a winged fruit, as that of 



the Ash. 



Scabrous, rough. 

 Scape, a leafless peduncle rising 



from the ground or near it. 

 Scarious, thin, dry, and mem- 



branaceous. 

 Scurf, small rusty-looking scales 



on the epidermis. 

 Segment, one of the parts of a 



divided leaf. 



Sepal, a division of a calyx. 

 Septum, a partition. 

 Serrate, toothed, the teeth directed 



towards the apex. 

 Serrulate, finely serrate. 

 Sessile, without a stalk. 

 Setaceous, bristle-like. 

 Setose, beset with bristles. 

 Sheath, a tubular envelope. 

 Sheathing, enclosing as with a 



sheath. 

 Shrub, a woody perennial smaller 



than a tree. 



Slllcle, a short and broad silique. 

 Silique, the peculiar pod of a Cru- 

 ciferous flower. 

 Simple, of one piece. 

 Sinuate, wavy. 

 Sinus, the indentation between 



two lobes. 



Sorus, a cluster of sporangia. 

 Spadix, a spike on a fleshy axis. 

 Spat he, a bract, subtending or en- 

 veloping a spadix. 

 Spathnlate, gradually narrowed 



downward from a rounded apex. 

 Spicate, in the form of a spike. 

 Spike, a cluster of sessile flowers' 



on a more or less elongated axis. 

 Spikelet, a small or secondary 



spike. 

 Spindle-shaped, larger in the 



middle than at either end. 



Spine, a sharp woody outgrowth of 

 the stem. 



Spinose, spine-like, or beset with 

 spines. 



Sporangium, a spore-case. 



Sporocarp, the fruit-case of cer- 

 tain cryptogams. 



Spur, a hollow projection. 



Sqnarrose, having spreading tips. 



Stamen, a pollen -bearing organ. 



Standard, the upper petal of a 

 papilionaceous corolla. 



Stellate, star-shaped. 



Sterile, not producing seed, with- 

 out a pistil. 



Stigma, the upper end of the pistil, 

 adapted for the reception of pollen. 



Stigmatic, stigma-like. 



Stipe, the leaf-stalk of a Fern : the 

 stalk supporting a pistil in certain 

 flowers. 



Stipnlar, relating to stipules. 

 Stolon, a branch which roots. 

 Stoloniferous, bearing stolons. 



Striate, marked with fine longitu- 

 dinal lines. 



Strict, rigid and upright. 



Strigose, beset with appressed 

 sharp straight and stiff hairs. 



Style, the narrow part of a pistil 

 between the ovary and the stigma. 



Stylopodinm, a disk-like expan- 

 sion at the base of a style, as in 

 Umbelliferous plants. 



Sub-, a prefix meaning "some- 

 what." 



Subulate, awl-shaped. 



Succulent, juicy. 



Suffrutescent, slightly shrubby. 



Suffrnticose, low and woody, di- 

 minutively shrubby. 



Sulcate, grooved or furrowed. 



Superior (calyx), attached to the 

 ovary. 



Suture, a seam or line of dehis- 

 cence. 



Symmetrical, with sets having 

 the same number of parts each, or 

 a multiple of that number. 



