rusty 
Sambucene 
rus’ty, rubiginose, ferruginous, the 
colour of iron rust. 
ru'tilant, rud'tlans, rut'ius (Lat., red, 
glowing), used for plants having 
glowing flowers: red, orange, 
yellow, or an admixture of these. 
rytidocar’pus (furls, puridos, a wrinkle, 
xapros, fruit), when the surface of 
the fruit is covered with wrinkles. 
sabulic’ola (sabulwm, sand, colo, I in- 
habit); sab’ulose, sabulo'sus, grow- 
ing in sandy places; Henslow 
prints the former word sabuii’colus ; 
sab‘uline (Crozier) is a synonym. 
Sac (saccus, a bag), a pouch, as Air 
~, an empty cavity in the pollen 
of Pinus; Em’bryo ~, see EMBRYO- 
SAC; sac’cate, sacca’tus, bag-shaped. 
sacchara‘tus (saccharum, sugar), 
sugary, or yielding sugar, as the 
sap of some species of maple ; sac- 
charif‘erous (fero, I bear), sugar- 
bearing ; sacchari‘nus (Lat.), 
sugary ; Sac’charose, cane-sugar. 
sac ciform, sacciform’is (saccus, a bag, 
Jorma, shape), bag-shaped; Sac’- 
culus (Lat., a little bag), the 
peridium of some Fungi; Sac’cus, 
sometimes applied to the coronet 
of Stapelia, etc. 
Sac’cophytes (cdxxos, a sack, gurdy, 
a plant), Schuett’s term for all 
plants which are not PLAcoPHYTES. 
Sacel’lus (saced/us, a little bag), ¢ a 
one-seeded indehiscent pericarp, 
inclosed within a hardened calyx, 
as the Marvel of Peru. 
Sachs’s Cur’vature, a curved growth 
of the root, due to a difference in 
the rate of growth of the two sides 
of the organ (Wiesner). 
Sack = Sac. 
sad'dle-shaped, applied to such valves 
of Diatoms as those of Coscinodis- 
cus. 
Saf’fron, the dried stigmas of Crocus 
sativus, Linn., which yield a yellow 
dye; ~ coloured, = crocatus. 
Sagit’tal, sag’ittate, sagztta’tus 
(sagitta, an arrow), enlarged at the 
base into two acute straight lobes, 
like the barbed head of an arrow ; 
sagit’tiform, sagittiform'is ( forma, 
shape), arrow-shaped. 
Sa’go, granulated starch obtained 
from the pith of certain palms, 
especially from species of Sagus. 
Saint-Valery’ Ap’ple, a monstrosity in 
which the petals are sepaloid, the 
stamens absent, and a double row 
of carpels present. 
Sal‘ep, the dried tubercles of some 
species of Orchis, also spelled 
Sal’op, Saloop’. 
Sal/icin, a glucoside occurring in the 
bark of willows, species of Salix ; 
Salicyl‘ous Ac‘id occurs in many 
flowers, especially of Spiraea, pro- 
bably by oxidation of its corre- 
sponding alcohol, SALIGENIN. 
salient (saliens, springing forward), 
projecting forward. 
Salig’enin, an aromatic substance 
formed by the decomposition of 
SALICIN, etc. 
saline’, sali’nus (sal, salis, salt), (1) 
consisting or partaking of the 
qualities of salt; (2) growing in 
salt-marshes ; ~ Mat’ters, chemical 
salts occurring in plants, the union 
of acids with bases. 
salmo’neus (salmo, w salmon); sal- 
monic’olor (color, colour), salmon- 
coloured, pink with a dash of 
yellow. 
Salpigan’thy (cdAmyé, «a trumpet, 
&vOos, a flower), the transformation 
of ligulate or disk-florets of Com- 
positae into conspicuous tubular 
florets (Morren). 
salsu’ginous, salsugino'sus (salsugo, 
saltness), growing in places inun- 
dated by salt or brackish water, 
as saltings; sal’sus (Lat., salted), 
is used in the same sense. 
sal'ver-form, ~ shaped, hypocrateri- 
morphous (A. Gray). 
Sama‘ra (or Same’ra, Lat., the fruit 
of the elm), an indehiscent winged 
fruit, as that of the sycamore; 
samarid’eous, sam‘aroid, samaroi’- 
deus (el5os, resemblance), used of a 
fruit resembling a samara. 
Sam’bucene, a terpene derived from 
Sambucus nigra, Linn. 
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