GLOSSARY. 



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



outwards. 

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



projections. 

 Soboliferous : bearing shoots from near the ground. 

 Solitary : single ; not associated with others. 

 Sorus (plural sori) : the proper name of a fruit-dot of Ferns. 

 Spadix : a fleshy spike of flowers. 

 Spathaceous : resembling or furnished with a 

 Spathe : a bract which inwraps an inflorescence. 

 Spdtulate, or Spathulate : shaped like a spatula. 

 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. 

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

 Spine : a thorn. 



Spindle-shaped : tapering to each end, like a radish. 

 Spinescent : tipped by or degenerating into a thorn. 

 Spinose, or Spiniferous : thorny. 



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

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



them taking the place of a seed. 

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



of Larkspur. 

 Squamate, Squamose, or Squamaceous : furnished with scales {squamm). 

 Squdmellate, or Squdmulose : furnished with little scales (squamellaz or squa- 



muloz). 

 Squ&miforrn : shaped like a scale. 

 Squarrose : where scales, leaves, or any appendages, are spreading widely 



from the axis on which they are thickly set. 

 Squdrrulose : diminutive of squarrose : slightly squarrose. 

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

 Staminate : furnished with stamens. Stamineal : relating to the stamen. 

 Staminddium : an abortive stamen, or other body resembling a sterile 



stamen. 

 Standard : the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Station : the particular place, or kind of situation, in which a plant natu- 

 rally occurs. 

 Stellate, Stellular : starry or starlike ; where several similar parts spread 



out from a common center, like a star. 

 Stemless : destitute or apparently destitute of stem. 

 Sterile : barren or imperfect. 



Stigma : the part of the pistil which receives the pollen. 

 Stigmdtic, or Stigmatose : belonging to the stigma. 

 Stipe (Latin stipes) : the stalk of »• pistil, &c. , when it has any ; the stem of 



a Mushroom. 

 Stipel : a stipule of a leaflet, as of the Bean, &c. 

 Stipulate : furnished with stipels, as the Bean and some other Leguminous 



plants. 

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