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SPiTHAMEUS CauUs [a Jphhama,- a fpan] 

 £ee Spithania. 



SPLENDENTIA Folia, fhining. Ludw. 

 See Nitidum. 



SQIJAMA, a fc.\Ie ; one of the fqua?r;a 

 •wliich form an Amentum. 



SQTJAMOSA Radix [from fqurjna, a fcale] 

 fcaly : a fpecies of the bitlboj'a, as for example, 

 the Lilium, which is compofed of fcales lying 

 over each other. 



Squamofus Pedunculu:, having a fcaly furface. 



SQCARROSUM Folium, &c. [/Vx«?^., fccr- 

 ra, vel fquarra, fcurf ] rough, fcaly, or fcur- 

 fy ; appUed, as one would imagine, to the fu- 

 perficies of a leaf, and yet Linnieus, in his De- 

 Uneatio Platita, ranges it with the terms relative 

 to the fmufes of leaves. 



Squarrofum Perianthium, rough, fcaly, as 

 in the Oiwpordum acanthitim. 



STAMEN, flax, thread. The JIamina are 

 thofe upright filaments which, on opening a 

 flower, we find within the Corolla furrounding 

 the Pijlillum. According to Linnseus, they 

 are the male organs of generation whofe office 

 is to prepare the PoIUti. Each Stavun confifts 



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