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J} a, Carhua., he. on the Calyx, in the Car dims, 

 CnkuSy Cottauria, Moluccella^ Galeopjis, &c. 

 on the fruit, in the Trapa, TribuluSy Murcx, 

 Spinac'ia^ Agremonia^ Datura, &c. 



SPINESCENS Petlolin, Stlpula [a Spina, a 

 jhornj terminating in a ftrong fliarp point. 



SPJNOSUS Caidh, Folium [z Spina, a thorn] 

 covered with ftrong woody prickles, whofe 

 roots are not fuperficial, but proceeding from 

 the body of the ftem. When appHed to a leaf, 

 Spinojum Folium, it indicates the margin run- 

 ning out into rigid points or prickles, quod mar- 

 gine exit 171 acumina duriora, rigida, piingmtia. 



SPIRALES Cotyledones [fpira, a circle, the 

 coil of a cable, &c.] twifted fpirally ,- a fpecics 

 of the Dicotyledoncs, exemplified in the Salfola^ 

 Salicornia, Ceratocarpus, Bafella, and all the 

 Holeracece. 



SPITHAMA, a fpan. The fixth degree 

 In the Linnsean fcale for meafuring the parts 

 of plants : the diftance between the extremity 

 of the thumb and that of the firft finger when 

 extended; or feven Parifian inches. See Me7i' 

 fur a, 



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