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Gl\)Z Errasttrg of SSntang. 



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SCYPHOCOROXIS. The generic name of 

 a minute annual weed of Western Australia 

 belonging to the Compositce and related to 

 Eelichrysum. The branching stems, not 

 more than one or two inches high, are 

 furnished with small spathulate leaves; 

 and each twig terminates in a single head 

 of yellow flowers, with the florets all tubu- 

 lar and perfect, enclosed by an involucre 

 of five narrow scales. The narrow cylin- 

 drical achenes are crowned with an entire 

 cup-shaped pappus-ring. All the parts of 

 the plant are more or less clothed with 

 clammy pubescence. [A. A. B.] 



SCYPHOFILIX. Microlepia. 



SCYPHOGYNE. A genus of Ericaceae; 

 distinguished by its calyx being four-cleft, 

 the anterior division largest, and by the 

 style ending in a broad and cup-like point. 

 The species are small shrubs, natives of 

 the Cape of Good Hope; they are usually 

 much branched, with small leaves arranged 

 in whorls of three ; the flowers are small, 

 and nearly sessile. The name is from the 

 Greek, and indicates the cup-like form of 

 the stigma. [G. D.] 



SCYPHULARIA. Davallia. 



SOYPHULUS. The bag or cup out of 

 which the seta of scale-mosses proceeds. 



SCYPHUS. The coronet of such plants 

 as Narcissus. 



SCYTHIAN LAMB, Cibotium Barometz. 



SEA-BELLS. Convolvulus Soldanella. 



SEA-COLANDER. The American name 

 in the North-eastern States of Agarum 

 TurnerL 



SEAFORTHIA A genus of palms ori- 

 ginally established upon a tropical Austra- 

 lian species, 8. elegans; but upwards of 

 twenty-five other species (chiefly inhabit- 

 ants of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and other 

 islands of the Indian Archipelago), have 

 since been added to it, including those 

 formerly placed in the genera Pinanga, 

 Pty chosperma, and Drymophlceus. All these 

 are spineless, and either with thick ringed 

 trunks from ten to forty feet high, or 

 dwarf reed-like stems. They have large 

 pinnate leaves, with leaflets divided or 

 irregularly torn at the apex ; the lower 

 ones standing out almost horizontally, and 

 their stalks forming a long cylindrical 

 sheath round the upper part of the stem, 

 below which the flower-spikes make their 

 appearance. These are at first enclosed in 

 ' spathes varying from one to four in num- 

 I ber, and have numerous tail-like branches, 

 I along which the flowers are arranged 

 J either in straight lines or in spirals, the 

 lower portions having them in threes, one 

 I female between two males, and the upper 

 : in pairs of males only. The one-seeded 

 fruit has a granular fibrous rind, the seed 

 I being in most species marked like a nut- 

 meg. [A. SJ 

 SEA-GIRDLES. Laminaria digitata. 

 SEAGREEN The same as Glaucescent. 



SEA-HANGERS. Laminaria bulbosa. 

 SEAKALE. Crambe maritima. 

 SEA-LACES. Chorda filum. 

 SEALWORT. Pohjgonatum officinale. 

 SEA-OTTER'S CABBAGE. The English 

 name of Nereocystis Lutkeana. 



SEA-THONGS. The common name of 



Himanthalia lorea. 



SEA-TRUMPET. Ecklonia buccinalis. 



SEAVES. Juncus. 



SEA-WAND. Laminaria digitata. 



SEA WARE. A synonym of Seaweed. 



SEAWEEDS. Lindley's name for the 

 Fucaceo3. See Alg^:. 



SEAWRACK. A name given to sea- 

 weeds thrown up by the tide and carried 

 into the neighbouring country for manure. 

 Also Zostera marina, which, during the 

 height of the distress in Lancashire, in 

 1863, was proposed as a substitute for cot- 

 ton, though no practical result followed 

 the suggestion. 



SEAWRACKS. Lindley's name for the 

 Zosteracece. 



SEB.EA. A genus of herbs belonging to 

 the Gentianacece, natives of the Cape 

 of Good Hope and of New South Wales. 

 The flowers are in corymbs, and have a 

 four to five-parted calyx, whose segments 

 have on their outer surface a prominent 

 ridge ; a funnel-shaped corolla, withering 

 on the plant ; four to five stamens, pro- 

 jecting from the tube of the corolla, the 

 anthers glandular at the top, and ulti- 

 mately bent downwards," a thread-like 

 style, with two globular stigmas ; and a 

 capsular fruit. Some of the species are 

 known in this country' as elegant green- 

 house or bedding-out plants. [M T M.] 



SEBASTIANIA. A genus of Eupliorbia- 

 cew, numbering eight species, milky-juiced 

 trees or shrubs of Brazil and Peru, having 

 smooth alternate ovate or elliptical leaves, 

 and minute green flowers disposed in slen- 

 der axillary or terminal bracteate spikes, 

 the sterile and fertile usually on different 

 plants. The genus is united with Stillinaia 

 by modern authors. [A. A. BJ 



SEBE. (Fr) Allium Cepa. 



SEBESTAKS, orSEBESTENS. The name 

 under which the dried fruits of Cordia 

 Myxa and C latifolia have long been used 

 as a medicine in India. 



SEBESTENA. A name applied ■ by 

 Gartner to a group of plants now referred 

 to ' Cordia. 



SEBESTIER. (Fr.) Cordia. 



SECALE. A genus of grasses related 

 to Triticum, distinguished by its spiked 

 inflorescence, which bears two-flowered 

 spikelets, having a long-stalked rudiment 

 of a third floret ; glumes subulate. To 

 the genus belongs the Rye, & cereale, a 



