GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



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Shield-shaped: see Peltate, 158, fig. 248, 

 681. 



Shoot : any fresh branch. 



Shrub, shrubbi/, 101. 



Sigillate : as if marked with the impres- 

 sion of a seal, as in Solomon's Seal, 

 fig. 168. 



Sigmoid: curved like the Greek sigma, 

 or letter S. 



Signs used in Botany, 517. 



Silenete, 395. 



Silicle : a pouch, or short pod of Cru- 

 ciferse, 317, fig. 703. 



Silicnlosa, 515. 



Siltculose : having or resembling a sili- 

 cle. 



Silique : . a long pod of Cruciferse ; 317, 

 fig. 589. 



Siliquosa, 516. 



Siliquose : like a silique. 



Silk-cotton, 399. 



SUhj : ' clothed with fine, appressed, and 

 glossy hairs, producing a satiny 

 surface. 



Silver-berry, 468. 



Silver-grain, 120. 



Simarubaceje, 405. 



Simple : of one piece or rank. 



Simple Jruits, 309, 311; leaves, 162; 

 pistil, 288. 



Sinistrtirse : turned to the left. 



Sinuate : strongly wavy on the margin, 

 with alternate convexities and con- 

 cavities ; 159, fig. 258. 



Sinus : a re-entering angle or recess. 



Slashed : same as Laciniate. 



Sleep of plants, 344. 



Smilaceee, 492. 



Smooth : not pubescent or hairy, or else 

 (and more strictly) not rough. 



Snake-root, 412, 462. 



Soap-berry, 410. 



Soholiferous : bearing shoots {soholes). 



Social (plants) : growing gregariously. 



Solanacese, 456. 



Solitary : single ; alone. 



Soluble : separating into parts. 



Soridiate : bearing little patches on the 

 .surface. 



Sorose : heaped, or bearing. 



Sordsis : a fleshy multiple fruit, like a 

 mulbeny. 



Sori (sing, sorus) : heaps or patches, as 

 those of the spore-cases of most 

 Ferns, called in English fruit-dots, 



■ 501. 



Spadiceous : bearing a 



Spadix: a sort of fleshy spike, 213. 



Span : the length spanned between the 

 thumb and little finger ; seven or 

 eight inches. 



Sparse : scattered and generally scanty. 



Spathdceous : bearing a 



Spathe : the enveloping bract of a spa- 

 dix, 213. 



Spdthulate, or spatulate: shaped like a 

 druggist's spatula. 



Special directions, 341. 



Species, 19, 354. 



Specific : relating to species. 



Sp&maphore : a name for the placenta, 

 or the funiculus of the seed. 



Spermatozoids, 334. 



Spermic, or spermoiis : relating to the 

 seed. 



Spirmoderm : the outer seed-coat, 320. 



Spicate: relating to or disposed in a 

 spike. 



Spiciform : spike-like. 



Spicula: a spikelet. 



Spike: a prolonged indefinite inflo- 

 rescence with sessile flowers, 212. 



Spikelet: a diminutiye or secondary 

 spike ; the ultimate flower-clusters 

 of Grasses. 



Spikenard, 435. 



Spindle-shaped, 84, fig. 138. 



Spine, 104, 167. 



Spinescent : tipped with a spine, 104. 



Spinose: spiny, 104. 



Spinulose : bearing diminutive spines. 



Spiral : as if wound round an axis. 



Spiral arrangement of leaves, 134. 



Spiral markings on cells, 39. 



Spiral vessels or ducts, 46. 



Spirese, 416. 



Spitliamoeous : a span high. 



Spdngioles, or spongelets, 80. 



Spongy : of the texture of sponge. 



Spontaneous movements, 340, 347. 



Sporadic : widely dispersed. 



Spordngium : a spore-case, 337, 500, &c. 



Spore: the body in Cryptogamous 

 plants which answers to the seed in 

 the PhEenogamous, 61, 70, 331. 



Spore-case, 337. 



Sporiferous : spore-bearing. 



Spdrocarp : a kind of sporangium, 502. 



Sports, .356. 



Spdrule : a spore, or small spore. 



Sporuliferous : bearing sporules. 



Spumescent, spumose ; froth-like. 



Spur : any tubular projection, 278. 



Spurred : bearing a spur, 278. 



Stpiainate, sqvamose, squamiferous : fur- 

 nished with scales (squantce). 



Squdmellate : with or resembling minute 

 and narrow scales (squameUcB, 497). 



Squdnnforra : scale-shaped. 



Squdmulifiirm : like a small scale, or 



Squdmula, 497. 



Squdmulose : covered with small scales. 



Squarrose: where scales, small leaves, 

 or other bodies, spread widely from 



