GLOSSABY. 
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iicptifraf/al ; when a fruit splits by the separation of the backs 
of the carpels from the septa. 
Septum ; the di\-ision of an ovary formed by the inflexed edges 
of the carpels. 
Serrate ; toothed like a saw. 
Serratures ; 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 ; beaiiug bristles or setae usually ending in glands. 
Sheath ; the lower part of a leaf or its petiole, which forms a 
vertical sheath suiTounding the stem. It is sometimes 
found alone. 
Silicle : a sLlique not four times as long as broad. 
Silique ; a long podlike fruit of Crucifers ha\-ing its edges con- 
nected by an internal membraue. 
Simple ; not compound ; not branched. 
Sinuate ; having many large blimt lobes and notches. 
Slashed ; with deep tapering incisions. 
Smooth ; free from all Kinds of roughness. 
Solitary ; growing singly. 
Spadix ; a succulent spike beaiing many sessile closely placed 
flowers. 
Spath ; a large bract often inclosing a spadix. 
Spathulate ; oblong, with a long Unear claw or haft. 
Spike ; a long simple axis with many sessile flowers ; hence sjn- 
cate flowers. 
Spikelet ; the small group of flowers in Grasses inclosed within 
one or more glimies. 
Spine ; a stifi" sharp woody persistent thorn. 
Spinose ; furnished with spmes. 
Spimdose ; with smaU, often vei-y minute spines or prickles. 
Spiral vessek ; fine tubes composed of membrane with spirally 
twisted fibres internally. 
Sporules ; the seedlike reproductive bodies of flowerless 
plants. 
Spur ; a tubular extension of the lower part of a petal or mono- 
etalous coroUa ; a loose prolongation of the base of a leaf 
eyond its point of attachment. 
Spurred ; furnished with a spur. 
Squarrose ; covered with appendages spreading at right angles 
or more. 
Stamen ., the male organ of a flower, usually formed of a fila- 
ment and anther. 
Staminode ; a scale on the inside of the upper lip of some Scro- 
phulariaceje. 
