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(Numbers refer to paragraphs.) 



May. Among other uses, used to designate the much-prolonged one-sided limb 



of the corolla in compositous flowers. 203. 

 Seceptacle. The expanded end of the stem upon which the flower is borne : 



torus: flower-seat. 166, 201, 207. 

 Seflexed. Bent abruptly backwards or outwards longitudinally: opposite 



direction to inflexed. 61. 

 Segular. Said of flowers in which the parts or lobes of the perianth are alike 



in each series. 211a. 

 Reinforced. In this book, used to designate flowers and fruits with which 



various petal-like or calyx-like bracts or leaves are organically associated. 



xxviii., liii., liv. 

 Beniform. Kidney-shaped. 132. 



Mepand, Slightly wavy, as the margin of a leaf. 133. 

 JRetuse. Indented at the end. 132. 

 Bevolute. Rolled under at the edges. 58, Fig. 62. 

 Bhizome. Rootstock. 453a. 

 Boot-hair. The minute projection upon roots, through which the most active 



absorption takes place. 404. 

 Bootstock. An underground stem, by means of which the plant propagates or 



carries itself over an unpropitious season: rhizome. 453a. 

 Bosefte. A much -shortened stem bearing a dense cluster of leaves, especially 



if it is formed upon the ground and assists in the propagation of the 



plant: see offset. 443. 

 Botate. Wheel-shaped. 211a, Fig. 178. 

 Bunner. A special kind of prostrate layer, taking root and forming new plants 



as it grows. 460. 

 Sagittate. Arrow-shaped. 132. 

 Salver-shapud. Limb of perianth standing at right angles to a narrow tube or 



base. 211(T., Pig. 177. 

 Samara. A dry and indehiscent winged fruit: key-fruit. 319. 

 Saprophyte. A plant which lives upon dead or decaying organic matter. 435, 



Ixxix. 

 Sarcocarp. The fleshy part of a drupe: soft exocarp. 300. 

 Scabrous. Roughened: covered with rough elevations. 

 Scape. A peduncle which arises from the ground, is simple, or nearly so, not 



jointed, and destitute of foliage, 214a. 

 Scarious. Dry: not fresh and soft. 105. 

 Scorpioid cyme. A one-sided coiled inflorescence, with the oldest flower at 



the base (but this flower conceived to represent the termination of 



the axis). 225. 

 Seed. The direct product of the fertilization of the flower, a body which con- 



