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Salsus. Salt-tasted. 
Stilver-form. Corolla with a flat spread- 
mg border proceeding frozn tht^ lop 
of a tube : flower monopetalous. 
Sam'ara. A winged pericarp not f)pen- 
ing by valves, as the maple. 
Sap. The watery fluid contained in 
the tubes and little cells of vegeta- 
bles. 
^upor. Having taste. 
Sarmen'tose. Running on the ground, 
and striking root from the joints only, 
as the strawberry. 
Sar'cocarp. (From sarx, flesh, and kar- 
pos, fruit.) The fleshy part of fruit. 
Scaber^ or Sca'brous. Rough. 
Scandens. Climbing. 
Scape. A stalk which springs from the 
root, and supports flowers and fruit 
but no leaves, as the dandelion. 
Sca'rious. Having a thin membranous 
margin. 
Scattered. Standing without any reg- 
ular order. 
Scions. Shoots proceeding laterally 
from the roots or bulb of a root. 
Secernant stimulants, are medicines 
which promote the internal secre- 
tions. 
Secund.. Unilateral, arranged on one 
side only. 
Segment. A part or principal division 
of a leaf, calyx, or corolla. 
Sempervi'vens. Living through the 
winter, and retaining its leaves. 
Sepal. Leaves or divisions of the calyx. 
Septa. Partitions that divide the inte- 
rior of the fruit. 
Septiferous. Bearing septa. 
Serrate. Notched like tHe teeth of a 
saw. 
Ser'rulate. Minutely serrate. 
Sessile. Sitting down; placed imme- 
diately on the main stem without a 
foot-stalk. 
Seta. A bristle. 
Seta'ceous. Bristle- form. 
Setose. Covered with bristles. 
Shaft. A pillar, sometimes applied to 
the style. 
Sheath. A tubular or folded leafy por- 
tion including within it the stem. 
Shoot. Each tree and shrub sends forth 
annually a large shoot in the spring 
and a smaller one from the end of 
that in June 
Shrub. A plant with a woody stem, 
branching out nearer the ground than 
a tree, usually smaller. 
Sic'cus. Dry. 
Sil'icle. A seed-vessel constructed like 
a silique, but not much longer than 
it is broad. 
Silique. A long pod or ^eed-vesse) of 
two valves, having the seed attached 
to the two edges alternately. 
Simple.. Not divided, brauctied or com- 
pounded, 
Sin'uaie. The margin hollowed out 
resembling a bay. 
Si'nus. A bay ; applied tu the plant, a 
roundish cavity in the edge of the 
leaf or peial. 
So'ri. Plural of sorus ; fruit-dots on 
ferns. 
Sorose. A genus of fruits in Mirbel's 
classes. 
Spa'dix. An elongated receptacle of 
flowers, commonly proceeding from 
a spatha. 
Spa'tha. A sheathing calyx opening 
lengthwise on one side, and consist- 
ing of one or more valves. 
Spat'ulate. Large, obtuse at the end, 
gradually tapering into a stalk at the 
base. 
Spe'cies. The lowest division of vege- 
tables. 
Specific. Belonging to a species only 
Sper'ma. Seed. 
Spike. A kind of inflorescence in 
which the flowers are sestile, or near- 
ly so, as in the mullein, or wheat. 
Spike'let. A small spike. 
Spin' die-shaped. Thick at top, gradu- 
ally tapenng, fusiform. 
Spine. A thurn or sharp process grow- 
ing from the wood 
Spinescent. Bearing spines or thorns. 
Spino'sus. Thorny. 
Spiral. Twisted like a screw. 
Sporules. That part in cryptogamous 
plants which answers to seeds. 
Spur. A sharp hollow projection from 
a flower, commonly the nectary. 
Spur' red-rye. A morbid swelling of 
the seed, of a black or dark cok>ur 
sometimes called ergot; the black 
kind is called the malignant ergot 
Grain growing in low, moist ground, 
or new land, is most subject to it. 
Squamo'se. Scaly. 
Squarro'se. Ragged, having divergent 
scales. 
Stamen. That part of the flower on 
which the artificial classes are found- 
ed. 
Stam'inate. Having stamens withou 
pistils. 
Standard. See Banner. 
Stel'late. Like a star. 
Stem. A general supporter of leaves 
flowers, and fruit 
Stemless. Having no stem. 
Ster'il. Barren. 
Stigma. The summit, or top of th<« 
pistil. 
Sl'vpe. The stem ol a fern, or tung-is 
