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VOCABULARY. 



Sulsus. Salt-tasted. 



Salver-form. Corolla with aflat spread- 

 ing border proceeding from the top 

 of a tube : flower monopetalous. 



Sam'ara. A winged pericarp not open- 

 ing by valves, as the maple. 



Sap. The watery fluid contained in 

 the tubes and little cells of vegeta- 

 bles. 



Sapor. Having taste. 



Sarmen'tose. Running on the ground, 

 and striking root from the joints only, 

 as the strawberry. 



Sar'cocarp. (From sarx, flesh, and kar- 

 pos, fruit.) The fleshy part of fruit. 



Scaber, or Sca'brous, Rough. 



Scandens. Climbing. 



Scape. A stalk which springs from the 

 root, and supports flowers and fruit 

 but no leaves, as the dandelion. 



Sca'rious. Having a thin membranous 

 margin. 



Scattered. Standing without any reg- 

 ular order. 



Scions. Shoots proceeding laterally 

 from the roots or bulb of a root. 



Secernant stimulants, are medicines 

 which promote the internal secre- 

 tions. 



Secund. Unilateral, arranged on one 

 side only. 



Segment. A part or principal division 

 of a leaf, calyx, or corolla. 



Sempervi'vens. Living through the 

 winter, and retainirig its leaves. 



Sepal. Leaves qr divisions of the calyx. 



Septa. Partitions thqt divide the inte- 

 rior of the fruit. 



Septifcrous. Bearing septa. 



Serrate. Notched like the teeth of a 

 saw. 



Ser'rulate. Minutely serrate. 



Sessile. Sitting down; placed imme- 

 diately on the main stem without a 

 foot-stalk. 



Seta. A bristle. 



Seta'ceous. Bristle-form. 



Setose. Covered with bristles. 



Shaft. A pillar, sometimes applied to 

 the style. 



Sheath. A tubular or folded leafy por- 

 tion including within it the stem. 



Shoot. Each tree and shrub sends forth 

 annually a large shoot in the spring 

 and a smaller one from the end of 

 that in June. 



Shrub. A plant with a woody stem, 

 branching out nearer the ground than 

 a tree, usually smaller. 



Sic'cus. Dry. 



Sil'icle. A seed-vessel constructed like 

 a silique, but not much longer than 

 it is broad. 



Silique. A long pod or teed-vessel of | 



two valves, having the seed attached 

 to the two edges alternately. 



Simple. Not divided, branched or com- 

 pounded. 



Sin'uate. The margin hollowed out 

 resembling a bay. 



Si'nus. A bay ; applied to the plant, a 

 roundish cavity in the edge of the 

 leaf or petal. 



So'ri. Plural of sorus ; fruit-dots on 

 ferns. 



Sorose. A genus of fruits in Mirbel's 

 classes. 



Spa'diz. An elongated receptacle of 

 flowers, commonly proceeding from 

 a spatha. 



Spa'tha. A sheathing calyx opening 

 lengthwise on one side, and consist- 

 ing of one or more valves. 



Spat'ulate. Large, obtuse at the end, 

 gradually tapering into a stalk at the 

 base. 



Spe'cies. The lowest division of vege- 

 tables. 



Specific. Belonging to a species only 



Sper'ma. Seed. 



Spike. A kind of inflorescence in 

 which the flowers are sessile, or near- 

 ly so, as in the mullein, or wheat. 



Spikc'let. A small spike. 



Spin' die-shaped. Thick at top, gradu- 

 ally tapering, fusiform. 



Spine. A thorn or sharp process grow- 

 ing from the wood. 



Spinescent. Bearing spines or thorns. 



Spino's%is. Thorny. 



Spi'ral. Twisted like 3, screw. 



Sporules. That part in cryptogamous 

 plants which answers tp seeds. 



Spiir. A sharp hollow projection from 

 a flower, commonly the nectary. 



Spur' red-rye. A morbid swelling of 

 the seed, of a black or dark colour 

 sometimes called ergot; the black 

 kind is called the malignant ergot 

 Grain growing in low, moist ground, 

 or new land, is most subject to it. 



Squamo'se. Scaly. 



Squarro'se. Ragged, having divergent 

 scales. 



Stamen. That part of the flower on 

 which the artificial classes are found- 

 ed. 



Stam'inate. Having stamens withou 

 pistils. 



Standard. See Banner. 



Stel'late. Like a star. 



Stem. A general supporter of leaves 

 flowers, and fruit. 



Stemless. Having no stem. 



Sler'il. Barren. 



Stigma. The summit, or top of the 

 pistil. 



Stipe. The stem of a fern, or fungus 



