GLOSSAET. XXI 



Scales ; minute rudimentary leaves ; very small flat semidetached 



parts of the cuticle. 

 Scape ; a leafless radical peduncle. 

 Scafmis; very thin, dry, and semitransparent. 

 Scorpioid ; said of the branches of a cyme curved in a circinate 



manner, and the flowers produced only on the upper side. 

 Secund; all turned tovrards one side. 

 Seed:, the ovule arrived at maturity.- 

 Seedstalk; the stalk connecting the hilum of a seed with the 



placenta. 

 jSspals; the divisions of the calyx. ' 



Septicidal ; when a fruit splits through the middle of the septa 



or partitions. - i 



Septifragal ; when a fruit splits by the separation of the backs 



of the caipels from the septa^ - i 

 Saturn \ the division of an ovary formed by the inflexed edges 

 ' of the carpels. ' ' : ^ 



Serrate ; toothed like a saw. 

 Serratures ; teeth like those of a saw.' 

 Serrulate ; with very small sawlike teeth. 

 Sessile ; without a stalk. 



Seta ; a bristle ; a bristle tipped with a gland ; a slender straight 

 ' prickle. ; . ' ', I \ . '■ 



Setaceous ; like a bristle. 



Setose ; bearing bristles or setae usually ending in glands. ■ 

 Sheath; tlie lower part of a leaf or its petiole, which forms a 



vertical sheath surrounding the stem. It is sometimes 



found alone. ' 

 Silicley a siliquenbt fOur times as long as broad. 

 Silique ; a long podlike fruit of Crucifers having its edges^con- 



nected by an internal membrane. : ' ; 



Simple ; not compound ; not branched. 

 Sinuate; having many large blunt lobes and notches. 

 Slashed ; with deep tapering incisions. 

 Smooth ; free from all kinds- of roughness. 

 Sobole ; a creeping underground stem producing roots- and leaf- 

 buds at intervals ; an underground stole. 

 Soholiferous ; having soboles, or long imderground shoots en(^g 



in suckers. , ,; 



Solitary ; growing singly. 

 Spadix ; a succulent spike bearing many sessile closely placed 



.!' flowers. ' , ■ ' 



Spath ; a large bract often enclosing a spadix. 

 Spathidate ; oblong, with a long linear claw or haft. 

 i^ike ; a long simple axis with many simple flowers ; hence «pi- 



, ca)!e flowers. ;! -- f 



Spikelet ; the small group of flowers in Grasses enclosed within 



one or more glumes. 



