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GLOSSARY. 
Salvershaped ; a corolla with a long slender tube and flat limb. 
Sarmentose ; having a prostrate stem, starting with a very 
small arch from its root. 
Scabrous ; rough like a blacksmith's hand. 
Scales ; minute rudimentary leaves ; very small flat semi- 
detached parts of the cuticle. 
Scape ; a leafless radical peduncle. 
Scarious ; very thin, dry, and semitransparent 
Scorpioid ; said of the branches of a cyme curved in a circinate- 
manner, and the flowers produced only on the upper side 
Secund ; all turned towards one side. 
Seed ; the ovule arrived at maturity. 
Seedstalk ; the stalk connecting the hilum of a seed with the 
placenta. 
Sepals ; the divisions of the calyx. 
Septicidal ; when a fruit splits through the middle of the 
septa or partitions. 
Septifragal ; when a fruit splits by the separation of the backs 
of the carpels from the septa. 
Septum ; the division of an ovary formed by the inflexed 
edges of the carpels. 
Serrate ; toothed like a saw 
Serratiires ; teeth like those of a saw. 
Serrulate ; with very small sawlike teeth. 
Sessile ; without a stalk. 
Seta ; a bristle ; a bristle tipped with a gland ; a slender 
straight prickle. 
Setaceous ; like a bristle. 
Setose ; bearing bristles or setae usually ending in glands. 
Sheath ; the lower part of a leaf or its petiole, which forms a 
vertical sheath surrounding the stem. It is sometimes 
found alone. 
Silicle ; a silique not four times as long as broad. 
Silique ; a long podlike fruit of Crucifers having its edges 
connected by an internal membrane. 
Simple ; not compound ; not branched. 
Sinuate ; having many large blunt lobes and notches. 
Slashed ; with deep tapering incisions. 
Smooth ; free from all kind.s of roughness. 
Sohole ; a creeping underground stem producing roots and 
leafbuds at intervals ; an underground stole. 
Soholiferous ; having soboles, or long underground shoots 
ending in suckers. 
Solitary ; growing singly. 
Spadix ; a succulent spike bearing many sessile closely placed 
flowers. 
