secund 
semi-amplectus 
secund’, secun’dus (Lat., following or 
second), parts or organs directed 
to one side only, usually by 
torsion ; secunda’tus (Lat., second 
in rank) is given by Henslow 
as synonymous ; secundiflo’rus 
(flos, floris, a flower), the flowers 
all turned in the same direc- 
tion ; Sec’undine, the second, that 
is, the inner coat of an ovule; 
Secundi’nae inter’nae, an old term 
for ALBUMEN of a seed ; Secun’do- 
spore (+ Spore), C. Macmillan’s 
term for a spore which can also 
act as a gamete, as in Ulothria. 
Se’des Flor’is (Lat.), t the torus of a 
flower. 
Seed, the fertilized and matured 
ovule of a phanerogamous plant; 
~ Bed, Blair’s word for Pura- 
CENTA ; ~ Bud, in Milne’s Dic- 
tionary cited for Ovary ; ~ 
Coat = Trsta; ~ Leaf, ~ Lobe 
= CoTYLEDON ; ~ Sport, a se- 
minal variation; ~ Stalk, the 
FunicLe or podosperm; ~ Varia’- 
tion, a variation arising from a 
seed, and not a bud; ~ Vari‘ety, a 
variety produced from a seed- 
sport, or one which comes true 
from seed ; ~ Ves’sel = PERICARP ; 
Seed’age, proposed by L. H. Bailey 
for the state or condition of being 
reproduced by seed; Seed’ling, a 
plant produced from seed, in 
distinction to a plant propagated 
artificially. 
segeta’lis (Lat., pertaining to stand- 
ing crops), growing in fields of 
grain. 
Seg’ment, Segmen'tum (Lat., a piece 
cut off), (1) one of the divisions 
into which a plant organ, as a leaf, 
may be cleft ; (2) each portion of 
meristem which originates from a 
single SEemmenT CELL; ~ Cell, the 
basal portion which is successively 
cut off from the apical cell in 
growth ; Segmenta’tion, (1) division 
into members ; (@) similar, as in 
a thallophyte, or (>) dissimilar, as 
in a cormophyte; (2) the division 
of the apical cell; (3) the primi- 
tive cell-divisions of the em- 
bryo. 
se’gregate, segrega’tus (Lat., separ- 
ated), kept apart; a Se’gregate is 
a species separated from a super- 
species. : 
Sei’‘rospore (ceipa, a string or rope, 
oropd, a seed), a spore produced in 
a branched row resulting from the 
division of terminal cells of partic- 
ular branches in certain Ceramia- 
ceae ; adj. seirospor‘ic. 
seju’gous, se’jugus (sex, six, jugum, 
a yoke), having six pairs of leaflets, 
as some pinnate leaves. 
Selec’tion, Nat’ural, Darwin’s ex- 
pression for that which Herbert 
Spencer has termed the ‘‘ Survival 
of the fittest.” 
Selenot’ropism (cedjvn, the moon, 
Tporn, a turning), movements of 
plants caused by the light of the 
moon (Musset). 
Self, a florist’s term for having the 
same tint throughout, without 
markings of other colours or tints; 
~ -bred, the offspring of self- 
fertilized flowers (F. Darwin); ~ 
-coloured, uniform in tint; ~ 
Fertiliza’tion, fertilized by its own 
pollen; ~ Par’asitism, parasitic on 
its own species, as sometimes 
happens with Viscwm; ~ Pollina’- 
tion, the pollen of the same flower 
brought into close contact with its 
own stigma; ~ Sterility, when 
pollen though ripe is inoperative 
on the stigma of its own flower. 
sellaeform’is (sella, a saddle, forma, 
shape), saddle-shaped. 
Se’men (Lat., seed), the seed of 
flowering plants; ~ cornicula’tum, 
the receptacle of certain Fungals 
(Lindley); ~ mul’tiplex = Srort- 
DESM. 
Se’met (semen, seed), a term used by 
Grew and others for ANTHER, 
cf. SEMINE. 
sem‘'i (Lat.), half ; semi-adhe’rent, 
semi-adherens (adherens, sticking), 
half-adherent, that is, the lower 
part or half; semi-amplec’tens, ~ 
amplec’tus (Lat., wound about), 
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