GLOSSARY. 231 



SiKqiiose : bearing siliques or pods which resemble siliques. 



Silki/ ; glossy with a coat of fine and soft, close-pressed, straight hairs. 



Silver-grain of wood, p. 151. 



Silvery : shining white or bluish-gray, usually from a silky pubescence. 



Simple ; of one piece ; opposed to compound. 



Sinistrorse ; turned to the left. 



Sinuate : strongly wavy ; with the margin alternately bowed inwards and out- 

 wards; p. 62, fig. 116. 



Sinus : a recess or bay ; the re-entering angle or space between two lobes or pro- 

 jections. 



Sleep of Plants (so called), p. 170. 



Soboliferous : bearing shoots from near the ground. 



Solitari/ : single ; not associated with others. 



Sorus (plural sort) ; the proper name of a fruit-dot of Ferns. 



Spadix: a fleshy spike of flowers ; p. 80, fig. 162. 



Spathaceous : resembling or furnished with a 



Spathe : a bract which inwraps an inflorescence ; p. 80, fig. 1 62. 



Spdtulate, or Spathutate: shaped like a spatula; p. 58, fig. 92. 



Special Movements, p. 170. 



Species, p. 173. 



Specific Character, p. 181. Specific Names, p. 179. 



Spicate : belonging to or disposed in a spike. 



Spiciform : in shape resembling a spike. 



Spike : an inflorescence like a raceme, only the flowers are sessile ; p. 80, fig. 160. 



Spikelet : a small or a secondary spike ; the inflorescence of Grasses. 



Spine: a thorn ; p. 39. 



Spindle-shaped- tapering to each end, like a radish ; p. 31, fig. 59. 



Spinescent: tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. 



Spinose, or Spinifirous : thorny. 



Spiral arrangement of leaves, p. 72. Spiral vessels or ducts, p. 148. 



Spordngia, or- Spdrocarps : spore-cases of Ferns, Mosses, &c. 



Spore : a body resulting from the fructification of Cryptogamous plants, in them 

 taking the place of a seed. 



Spdrule : same as a spore, or a small spore. 



Spur : any projecting appendage of the flower, looking like a spur, as that of 

 Larkspur, fig. 183. . 



Spiamate, Squamose, or Sqnamaceous: furnished with scales {squamce). 



Squam^llate or Squdmulose: furnished with little spales (squamellae or squamul(x). 



Sqndmiform : shaped like a scale. 



Squarrose : wliere scales, leaves, or any appendages, are spreading widely from 

 the axis on which they are thickly set. 



Squdrrulose : diminutive of squarrose ; slightly squarrose. 



Slalk : the stem, petiole, peduncle, &c., as the case may be. 



Stamen, p. 86, 111. 



Staminate: furnished with stamens ; p. 89. Stamineal: relating to the stamens, 



Staminddiam ; an abortive stamen, or other body resembling a sterile stameji. 



Standard: the npper petal of a papilionaceous corolla; p 105, fig. 217, 218, ». 



/SiarcA; a well-known vegetable product; p. 163. ■ '• 



