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linition, calls it the deciduous part of the vegeta- 

 ble, and rudiment of a new produftion, being 

 vivified by the irrigation or fprinkling of the 

 Pollen ; but, according to the fame writer, the 

 Semen, properly fo called, is the rudiment of a 

 new vegetable, moiftened with juice or fap, 

 and involved in a membrane I'efembling a blad- 

 der. Its principal conftituent parts are Corcu- 

 liun. Cotyledon, HUu?n, Ariilus^ Corcnula. 



SEMINALE FoUum IScmen, feed] feminal 

 leaves, are thofe which before were the cotyle- 

 dons, and appear firft. 



SEMITERES Caulls; half-cylindrical, flat 

 on one fide, and I'ound on the other. 



SEMPERVIRENS Folmm [femper, & vlrens, 

 green] ever green ; the longeft degree of dura- 

 lion. See Caditcum, Declduum^ Pcrfiflens. 



SENA Folia [a fex\ growing in fixes, as in 

 the Galium fpurium. 



SENTICOS^ iSentls, a brier, a bramble] 



an order of plants in the Fragmenta methodi na- 



turalis of Linnaeus, containing thefe genera, 



viz. Rofa, Rubus, Fragaria, Potentllla, Tormcn- 



Y tilla. 



