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hogany of commerce. It is a stately tree, 

 principally met with in Central America 

 and Mexico, growing upon rocky soil. The 

 leaves are iruparipinnate, and the flowers 

 axillary. The calyx is five-cleft, short; the 

 corolla has five petals, and the stamens 

 are united into a tube bearing ten anthers; 

 the fruit is a five-celled woody capsule, 

 each cell containing numerous winged 

 seeds: The bark is considered a febrifuge, 

 and the seeds prepared with oil were used 

 by the ancient Aztecs as they are by the 

 modern Mexicans as a cosmetic, under the 

 names of Pepitos del Sopilote, Zopilotl, or 

 Tzontecomatl. The timber is largely em- 

 ployed in making household furniture in 

 this country. ^^B. SJ 



SWINE'SBANE. Clienopodium nibrum. 



SWINE'S-SNOUT. Taraxacum dens leo- 

 nis. 



SWORD-SHAPED. The same as Ensi- 

 form. 



STAGRUS. A genus of palms resembling 

 the cocoa-nut tree in appearance, and in- 

 deed closely allied to it in botanical cha- 

 racters, most of them having, in fact, been 

 formerly referred to Cocos. The principal 

 points of difference between them consist 

 in the flower-spike being enveloped in a 

 I single spathe in Cocos and a double one in 

 i Syagrus ; and in the hard bony shell of the 

 j fruit of the latter having a broad smooth 

 band or channel running from each of the 

 three pores, and meeting at the top. Like 

 , the cocoa-nuts, the fruits of the different 

 species of Syagrus contain a single oily 

 sometimes hollow seed enclosed in a hard 

 bony shell surrounded by a fibrous rind, 

 the shell also having three pores or holes 

 near the base, as in the well-known cocoa- 

 nut. Of the five or six known species, one, 

 S. amara, is a native of the "West Indian 

 island of Martinique, and the rest are indi- 

 genous to Brazil. [A. SJ 



SYCAMINE. The Sycamore. 



SYCAMORE. Acer Pseudo-Platanns. —, 

 AMERICAN. Plntanus occidentals. — , 

 NEW SOUTH WALES. Brachychiton lu- 

 ridum. 



SYCHXOCARPOUS. Having the power 

 of producing fruit many times without 

 perishing, as is the case with all trees and 

 herbaceous perennials. 



SYCIOS. Sicyos. 



SYCOMORE. <Fr.) Acer Pseudo-Plata- 

 nus; also Ficus Sycomorus alias Sycomo- 

 rus antiquorum. — FAUX. Melia Azeda- 

 rach. 



SYCOMORPHE of Miqttel, the same as 

 Covellia of Gasparrini, is the name of a 

 genus proposed for some species of Ficus 

 from Tropical Asia. 



SYCOMORUS. A name under which 

 Gasparrini proposed to separate from Ficus 

 as a distinct genus the F. Sycomorus (S. an- 

 tiquorum), and some other African species. 



SYCONIUM, SYCONUS. Such fruits as 



that of the fig, consisting of a fleshy re- 

 ceptacle loaded with flowers, each produc- 

 ing its own proper seed-vessel. 



SYCOPSIS. An East Indian tree or 

 shrub, with alternate undivided leaves, and 

 small dioecious flowers in their axils, which 

 forms a distinct genus of Eamamelidacece. 



SYGWAM. An Indian name for Teak- 

 wood. 



SYLVAN, SYLVATICUS, SYLYESTRIS. 

 Growing in woods. 



SYLVIE. (Fr.) Anemone nemorosa: — 

 JAUNE. Anemone ranunculoides. 



SYLVULA. A plantation. 



SYMBOLANTHUS. A shrubby plant 

 native of the mountains of Peru, and con- 

 stituting a genus of Gentianacece. It may 

 be known by the following characters : — 

 Calyx five-parted, pentangular ; corolla 

 rose-coloured, salver-shaped, the tube 

 three inches in length, the limb divided 

 into five segments ; stamens within the 

 tube of the corolla, united at the base by 

 a circular membrane. The one-celled ovary 

 is girt by a glandular disk, and surmounted 

 by a stigma divided into two linear plates. 

 So showy a plant should not long remain 

 absent from our greenhouses. [M. T. MJ 



SYMMETRY (adj. SYMMETRICAL). 

 That kind of arrangement in which the 

 number of parts of one series corresponds 

 with that of the other series; as, for ex- 

 ample, when a flower with five sepals has 

 five petals, and five ten or fifteen stamens. 



SYMPETALICUS. A growing of the 

 stamens to the petals, so as to produce the 

 appearance of a monopetalous corolla ; as 

 in the mallow. 



SYMPHORIA. Sijmphoricarpus. 



SYMPHORICARPUS. The generic 

 name of plants belonging to the order of 

 caprifoils. The ovary is four-celled, two 

 of the cells being abortive, while the other 

 two produce each one hard seed. The 

 species are shrubs, natives of North Ame- 

 rica and Mexico. One of them, S. racemosus, 

 is the well-known Snowberry, cultivated 

 in gardens, producing large white berries. 

 The name is from the Greek symphoreo 'to 

 bear together' and carpos 'fruit,' in allu- 

 sion to the clusters of berries. [G. DJ 



SYMPHYANDRA. A genus of Campa- 

 nulace.ce, known by the five stamens having 

 the filaments dilated at the base, fringed 

 with hairs and free, and the anthers ad- 

 hering so as to form a long cylindrical 

 tube. The species are perennial herbs, 

 natives of Crete and the Caucasus, with al- 

 ternate cordate and crenato-dentate leaves, 

 the lowest of which are largest. The name 

 is from the Greek, and indicates the union 

 of the anthers. [G. DJ 



SYMPHYANTHEROUS. The same as 



Syngenesious. 



SYMPHYOGLOSSUM. A genus of As- 

 clepiadacecc, comprising two herbaceous 

 twiners from Northern China, closely allied 



