TABLE VII. 537 



Species Plantarum^ the third subdivision in the Linnapan System, 

 Spica, a spike, a species of inflorescence resembling an ear of corn. 

 Spica Secunda, when the flowers all turn towards one side. 

 Spica Disticha, when the flowers are in two rows, and look two 

 ways. 



Spicula, a little spike. 

 Spinte, thorns or rigid prickles. 



Spinosus Caulis, strong prickles, whose roots proceed from the 

 wood of the stem, and not from the surface of the bark. 



Spirales Cotyledones> seminal leaves twisted spirally. 



Spithama, a span, or seven Parisian inches. 



Splendentia Folia, a shining leaf. 



Squamosa Radix, a scaly root. 



Squarrosum, rough, scaly, or scurfy. 



Stamen, the filaments that sustain the anthera. 



Stamineus Flos, flowers having stamina, and no corolla. 



Statuminat^e, a prop, an order of plants in the Fragmenta Me- 

 thodi Naturalis of Linnaus. 



Stellata Folia, leaves surrounding the stem, like the rays of a 

 circle. 



Stellate Seta, a species of pubescens called bristles, when they 

 arise from a centre in form of a star, as in the Mesembhv- 

 anthemum Barbatum. 



Stellata Planta, one of Mr. Ray's, classes, the Tetrandria Mo- 

 nogynia of Linnmus. 



Stellat/e, an order of plants in the Fragmenta Method i Natura- 

 lis of Linntzus. 



Sterilis Flos, a barren jlower, masculus of Linnozus. 



Stigma, apex of the pistillum. 



Stimuli, stings. 



Stipitatus Pappus, a kind of trunk that elevates the down, and 

 connects it with the seed. 



Stipula, one of the kinds of fulcra of plants, generally growing 

 on each side of the base of the foot-stalks of leaves or 

 flowers, and are either by twos, single, deciduous, abid- 

 ing, adhering, loose, on the inside of the foot-stalks or 

 on the outside, , 



