354 GLOSSART. 



liuncinate.' with coarse teeth pointing backward* 

 Runner : a slender, prostrate rooting branch. 



Saccate : having a sac or purse-shaped cavity. 

 SagittaU : shaped like an aryow-head. 



Satver-forin : with a border spreading at right angles to the tube. 



Samara : a wing fruit ; as- in Maple. 



Saprophyte : a plant feeding on decaying osrganie mattei. 



Sf^iMBOod : the younger wood, still containing sap. 



Sarcocarp: the soft or fleshy part of a stone fruit. 



Scabrous : rough or harsh. 



Scalarifonm : like the rounds of a ladder. 



Scale : a very much reduced and more or less- rigid or membraneous 

 leaf. 



Secmdent: climbing; 



Scape : a peduncle coming from the ground j as in acaulescent plants. 



ScariontB : thin, dry, and membranous. 



Scion : a twig used for grafting. 



Sderenchyma : tissue in which the cells have thickened and indu- 

 rated walls. 



Selemliium .• a compacted and hardened mass of hyphse. 



Semf: minute scales. 



Scurfy, or Seuxvy: having scurf. 



Secvjndine ; the seetmd or inner coat of the ovule. 



Sled : the fully developed ovule containing the embryo. 



Seed-leaves : cotyledons ; the leaf or leaves- of the embryo. 



Segment : a division or lobe. 



Semi (as a prefix) : half. 



Seprd : one of the leaves- or parts of a calyx. 



Sepaloid : like a sepal in texture, etc. 



Separated fimeers : those having only stamens or only pistils. 



Septate : di^■ided by partitions or septa. 



Seplicidal : where the dehiscence is through the partitions or dissepi- 

 ments. 



Sepltfragal .• where the walls of the ovary or valves break away from 

 the partitions. 



Septum: partition. 



Sericeous ; silky. • 



Serrate : with teeth pointing forwards or towards the apex. 



Sessile.- attached directly to the stem or stalk ; without a foot-stalk. 



Seta; a slender bristle-like body ; the supporting filament of the 

 Moss-capaule, etc. 



Setaceous ." like a seta ; bristle-like. 



Setiform : in the form of a bristle or seta. 



Skeaili : the base of leaves, etc., which invests the stem. 



Shrub : a small woody plant ; smaller than a tree. 



Shrubby! woody; like a shrub. 



Sieve-cells, or Sieve-tubes : those having holes or sieve-like openings 

 in their partitions. 



SiLicLe ; the short pod or pouch of the Cress family (Cruciferaa). 



