GLOSSARY OF BOTANIC TEEMS. 



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Hugulose ;— somewhat wrinkled. 



Ruminate:— having- the appearance 

 of heing chewed, like the endos- 

 perm of the nutmeg and of many 

 of the AnonacecB. 



Kuncinate :— saw-toothed cr sharp- 

 ly incised, the teeth or incisions 

 retrorse. 



Runner:— an elongated lateral 

 shoot rooting at intervals, often 

 dying off at the internodes. 



Sagittate :— shaped like an arrow- 

 head 



Samara:— an indehiscent winged 

 fruit. 



Sapid :— having a pleasant taste. 



Saponaceous:— soapy. 



Saprophyte:— a plant which lives 

 on dead organic matter. 



Sarmentose :— producing long and 

 flexible runners . 



Sativus :— refers to a plant which 

 has been sown or planted. 



Scabrid :— roughish. 



Scabrous :— rough to the touch. 



Scandent :— climbing. 



scape :— a leafless flower-stalk ris- 

 ing direct from the rootstock, as 

 in Eriocaulon. 



Scapigerous :— with flowers borne 

 on a scape. 



Scarious:— thin, dry and membra- 

 nous, not green. 



Scorpioid :— refers to a form of 

 unilateral cym' se inflorescence 

 which is circinately coiled in the 

 bud, strictly with flowers two- 

 ranked, these being alternately 

 thrown to right and left. 



ScrolJiculate :— marked by minute 

 or shallow depressions. 



Sebiferous :— producing vegetable 

 wax. 



Secund :— when parts or organs are 

 directed to one side only. 



Seed :— the fertilized and matured 



ovule. 

 Sepal :— is the name given to each 

 segment, whether free or com- 

 bined, composing the calyx. 



Sepaloidl:— resembling a sepal. 



Sepiarius :— referring to hedge s._ 



Septicidal :— when a capsule dehis- 

 ces through the dissepiments or 

 lines of junction. 



Septifragal:— when the valves in 

 dehiscence break away from the 

 dissepiments. 



Seriate :— disposed in rows, either 

 transverse or longitudinal. 



Sericeus :— clothed with silky ap- 

 pressed hair. 



Serotinus :— produced late in the 

 season. 



Serrate :— margined with teeth 

 directed forwards. 



Serrulate :-finely serrate. 



Sessile :— without a stalk. 



Seta :— a bristle or bristle -shaped 

 body. 



Setaceous :— bristle-like. 



Setiferous :— bearing bristles. 



Setose :— bristly. 



Sigmoid :— doublyicurved like the 

 letter S. 



Siliqua :— a kind of pod character- 

 istic of the Crucif''rce, the two 

 valves of which fall away from 

 the frame (replum), to which the 

 seeds are attached, and across 

 which a false partition is formed. 



Sinuate :— withia deep, wavy mar- 

 gin. 



SPadix :— a spike with a fleshy axis, 

 often restricted to an inflorescence 

 like that met with in aroids, the 

 flowers of which are unisexual 

 and the spike is generally en- 

 closed within a spathe. 



Spathe:— a large bract inclosing 

 the inflorescence, as in Ansaema. 



Spathulate :— obovate with the 

 lower end attenuated. 



Spike:— a form of iadefinite in- 

 florescence with t-^e flowers 

 sessile on an elongated common 

 axis. 



Spikelet :— a secondary spike ; also 

 applied to ultimate clusters of 

 florets as in grasses, the clusters 

 of which are subteniied by a 

 common pair of glumes. 



