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SCILLA-SESAMUM. 
SCILLA. 6 — 1. [From skillo, to dry ; so called from its property of drying up humours.] 
mariti'ma, (squill, w.) scape long, naked, many-flowered ; bracts bent back ; 
root bulbous. Ex. 
SCLERANTHUS. 10—2. (PortulaccecB.} 
an^nuus, (knawel, stems slightly pubescent; calyx )f the fruit spreading, 
acute. Stems numerous, procumbent. Flowers very small, green, in ax- 
illary fascicles. Dry lields. 
peren"nis, {%.) calyx of the fruit with obtuse, spreading segments. England. 
SCROPHULARIA. 13—2. (Scrophularm.) [From scrofula, the king's evil; so called be- 
cause the leaves were formerly considered a remedy for scrofulous tumours.] 
marylan^'dica, (fig-wort, g-p. Ju. %.) leaves cordate, serrate, acute, rounded 
at the base; petioles ciliate below; panicle fasciculate, loose, few-flowered; 
stem obtusely angled. 2-4 f. 
lanceola'ta, leaves lanceolate, unequally serrate ; petioles naked ; fascicles co- 
rymbed. 2-3 f. Wet meadows. Flowers greenish yellow. 
SCUTELLARIA. 13—1. {Labiatcn.) 
laterifio'ra^ (scullcap, b. Ju. %.) branching, glabrous ; leaves long-petioled, 
ovate, toothed; cauline ones sub-cordate; racemes long, lateral, leafy. 
Damp. 1-2 f At one time in repute as a remedy for hydrophobia. 
galericula'ta, (common scullcap, b. J. %.) branching; leaves sub-sessile, 
lance-ovate, sub-cordate at the base, crenate, white-downy beneath; flowers 
axillary, solitary, or in pairs ; flowers large. Damp. 12-18 i. 
integrifo'lia, (b. Ju. T7.) stem nearly simple, densely pubescent ; leaves sub- 
sessile, oblong, obtuse, wedge-form at the base, obscurely toothed ; racemes 
loose, leafy; flowers opposite, often in panicles. 18-24 i. Swamps. 
SECALE. 3 — 2. (Graminece.) [From scco, to cut or mow.] 
cerea^le, (rye, J. J^.) glumes and bristles scabrous-ciliate ; corolla smooth. In- 
troduced. 
SEDUM. 10 — 5. (Sempervivce.) [From sedo, to assuage, because it allays inflammation.] 
terna'tum, (false ice-plant, w. J. %) small, creeping; leaves flat, round-spatu- 
late, ternate; flowers somewhat 3-spiked, sometimes octandrous. Culti- 
vated. 
tele'pMum, (orpine, live-forever, r. w. Ju. Qi) leaves flattish, tooth-serrate^ 
thickly scattered ; corymb leafy; stem erect. Ex. 
anacamp^^seros, (stone-crop, leaves wedge-form, entire; sub-sessile; stem 
decumbent; flowers corymbed. Ex. 
SEMPER VIVUM. 12-13. iSempervivca.') [From semper, always, and ui-iJO, to live.] 
tecto'rum, (houseleek, Au. %.) leaves ciliate; bulbs spreading; nectaries 
wedge-form, crenulate. Ex. 
arbo'reum, (tree-houseleek,) stem woody, smooth, branching ; leaves wedge- 
form, glabrous, with soft spreading hairs. Ex. 
pulcheVlum, glabrous ; stem assurgent ; leaves linear, obtuse, scattered ; cyme 
many-spiked, flowers sessile, octandrous, iS. 
SENECIO. 17—2. iCorymbosce,.) [From senesco,to grow old ; so called because some of its 
species are covered with a grayish pubescence, like the hair of an aged person.] 
A. Florets tubular ; those of the ray wanting, 
hieracifo'lius, (fire-weed, w. J. ©.) stem virgate, paniculate ; leaves clasping, 
oblong, acute; unequally, acutely, and deeply toothed; involucre smooth; 
seeds pubescent ; stem 2-6 f high, succulent, branching towards the summit; 
flowers in a compound, terminal panicle. Road-sides. 
vulga'ris, (groundsel, y. %.) flowers in crowded corymbs. Stem 18 i. Culti- 
vated grounds. Introduced. 
B. Flowers with ray florets, 
awre'us^ (y. %.) radical leaves ovate, cordate, serrate, petiolate ; cauline ones 
pinnatiiid, toothed, the terminal segments lanceolate ; peduncles thickened ; 
flowers somewhat urabelled. Shady woods. 2 f. 
obovaHus, (y. J. %) stem smoothish ; radical leaves obovate, crenate-serrate, 
petiolate ; cauline ones pinnatifid, toothed ; flowers somewhat umbelled, on 
long peduncles ; rays 10-12. 1 f. Rocky hills. 
6ESAMUM. 13—2. {Bignonicz.) [An Egyptian name.] 
in"dicum, (oily grain, bene-benni, r-w. Au. leaves lance-ovate; outer 
ones 3-lobed ; upper ones undivided, serrate. 3-4 f. 
