SLOSSABT. XXI 



Shizome ; a prostrate more or less subterranean stem producing 



roots and leafy alioots. 

 Shondtoidal ; approaching a quadrangular, not square, figure 



attached by one of its more acute angles. 

 Ringent ; a 2-lipped widely open corolla. 

 Rootstock ; a thick short rhizome or tuber. 

 Rosette ; a collection of leaves growing close together, like the 



petals of a double rose. 

 Rosulate ; arranged in a rosette. 

 Rotate ; a monopetalous corolla with a short tube and very 



spreading limb. 

 Rudimentary ; imperfectly developed. 

 Ritgose ; covered with a network of lines enclosing convex 



spaces. 

 Rugidose ; finely rugose, 



Runcinate; where the lobes of leaves are directedtowards the base. 

 Runner ; a prostrate shoot rooting at its end ; a stole. 



Sagittate ; like the barbed head of an arrow, the auricles or lobes 



pointing backwards. 

 Salvershaped ; a corolla with a long slender tube and flat limb. 

 Scabrous ; rough like a blacksmith's hand. 

 Scales; minute rudimentary leaves ; very small flat semidetached 



parts of the cuticle. 

 Scape ; a leafless radical peduncle. 

 Scarious; 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 towards one side. 

 Seed ; the ovule arrived at maturity. 

 Seedstdk ; the stalk connecting the hilum of a seed vrith the 



placenta. 

 Sepals ; the divisions of the calyx. 

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



or partitions. 

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



of the carpels from the septa. 

 Septum ; 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. 

 Setaceous ; like a bristle. 

 Setose ; bearing bristles or setae usually ending in glands. 



