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SALVINIA—SARRACENIA. 
longer than the calyx, concave, acuminate. 
Kx. 
sphn"clens, (scarlet sag-e, r. 11.) leaves 
ovate and lance ovate, flat, smooth beneath ; 
flowfir long; calyx and corolla scarlet, 
downy ; style exsert. Ex. 
azu'rea, (narrow-leaved sage, b. w. Au. 
H.) leaves lance-linear, smooth ; calyx pu- 
bescent, 3 cleft ; segments short. 4 6f. S. 
trichm"temmoi'des, (b. 0.) leaves lance- 
olate, serrate ; racemes terminal ; flowers 
opposite ; corolla equal to the 3-cleft calyx ; 
stem brachiate-branehed. S. 
obova'ta, (downy-leaved sage, Ju.) leaves 
large, obovate, toothed, pubescent; Btem 
slightly angled ; whorls 6-flowered. 18 i. S. 
cocciii"ea, [v. Ju. 2/.) leaves cordate, 
acute, tomentose, serrate ; corolla twice as 
long as the calyx, and narrower. 1 f. 
au'rea, flowers golden yellow. 
formo'sa, a shrubby plant with dark scar- 
let flowers. Ex. 
pa' Leas, flowers of the richest blue. 
denta'la, flowers white. 
purpu'rea, flowers purple. 
SALVINMA. 21—1 ^Filices.) 
na'tans, leaves elliptic, sub-cordate, 
obtuse, with fascicled bristles above; fruit 
sub-sessile, aggregated. Lakes and still 
waters. 
SAMBU'CUS. 5—3. (Caprifolia;.) [From 
Sabucca, (Hebrew,) the name of an ancient 
musical instrument, made from the wood 
(»f this shrub.] 
canade.)i"sis, (black -ben'ied elder, w, J. 
fp.) branchlcts and petioles glabrous; leaf- 
ets about in 4 pairs, oblong-oval, glabrous, 
shining, acuminate ; cyme lax, divided into 
about 5 parts. 8-15 f. 
pubes"cens, (r^d-berried elder, w. M. ^ .) 
bark warty ; leafets in 2 pairs, lance-oval, 
pubescent beneath ; flowers racenie-pani- 
cled, or in a crowded bunch. 6-12 f. 
SaMO'LUS. 5—1. (Lysimachia: ) [Supposed 
to be named from the island of Samos.] 
valeran"di, (water pimpernell, brook- 
weed, w. Ju. 2X-) erect; leaves obovate, 
entire ; racemes many -flowered ; pedicels 
with a minute bract. Wet grounds. 8-12 i. 
ebractea'tus, (w. 11.) stem short, robust, 
smooth, divided at the base ; leaves obo- 
vate, obtuse, somewhat fleshy, attenuate at 
the case ; racemes elongated, sub-pubes- 
cent ; pedicels filiform, without bracts. S. 
SANGUINA'RIA. 12—1. (Papaveracea.) 
[From sanguis, blood ; so named either from 
the color of its root, or its use in stopping 
hemorrhages.] 
canaden"sis. (blood-root, w. Ap. 2X-) 
eaves sub-reniform, sinuate-lobed ; scape 
1-flowered. A variety, stenopet" ala, has 
linear petals. 6-10 i. 
SANGUISOR"BA. 4—1. (Rosacf.<t.) [From 
sanguis, blood, and sorbeo, to absorb ; so 
named from its medicinal qualities.] 
canade7i"sis, (burnet saxifrage, w. Ja. 
24[.) flowers in a long, cylindric spike ; sta- 
mens several times longer than the corolla. 
The leaves resemble the burnet. 3-5 f. 
me' din, stipes shorter than the preceding, 
and tinged with red. Wet meadows ; 
chiefly on mountains. 
SANIC'ULA. 5—2. (Umbemfera;.) [Ficn. 
sano, to heal ; so called from its virtues m 
healing.] 
mnryla)id"ica, (w. .lune-Au. If.) leaves 
all digitate ; leafets oblong, deeply serrate, 
staminate flowers numerous, pedicelled. 2f, 
cannden''sis, (2^.) leaves palmate ; seg- 
ments petioled ; divisions gash-serrate, lat- 
eral ones 2-parted ; flowers polygamous, 
staminate ones short-pedicelled ; lobes of 
the calyx entire. Canada. 
SANTOLI'NA. 17—1. (Corymbiferce.) [From 
santalum, saunders, because it swells lik« 
the saunders-wood.] 
_ snaveo'lem, (y. Ju. %.) smooth ; stem fas- 
tigiate; leaves sub-bipinnatifid ; divisions 
acute, linear; peduncles terminal, l-flower- 
ed. 
SAPIN"DUS. 8—3. (Sapindi.) [From twc 
words, sapo indus, Indian soap, the rind of 
the fruit being used as a substitute foi 
soap.] 
sapona'ria, (w. leaves glabrous, ab 
ruptly pinnate; leafets lance-oval > frui 
glabrous. iS. 
SAPONA'RIA. 10—2. iCaryophyUea.) [Frorr 
sapo, soap, the juice being found to have sa- 
pimaceous properties.] 
ojjicina'lis, (soap-wort, bouncing bet, w 
J. Zf.) calyx cyhndric ; leaves lance-ovate, 
opposite, sub-connate, entire. Naturalized. 
10-18 1. Ex. 
vacca'ria, (field soap-wort, r. Jn. ^.) ca 
lyx pyramidal, 5-angled, smooth; bracts 
membranaceous, acute ; leaves ovate-lan- 
ceolate, sessile. Introduced. 
SARRACE'NIA. 12-1. {Papavcracem.) [This 
name is said, by some, to have been given 
in honor of Dr. Sarrazin, by others, it is 
thought to have originated in the resem- 
blance of the peculiar flower of the plant to 
the head of a Saracen enveloped in his crim- 
son turban ; thus the plant is sometimes 
called Turk's-head.] 
purpn'rea, (side-saddle flower, p. J. 
leaves radical, short, gibbose-inflated, o; 
cup-form, contracted at the mouth, having a 
broad, arched, lateral wing ; the contract- 
ed part of the base hardly as long as the 
inflated part. Scape with a single, large, 
nodding flow^er. In marshes. 1-2 f. 
heMrophyU'la, has palish yellow flowers, 
and is more slender than the preceding. 
ru'bra, (r-p. 2/.) leaves slender; lateral 
wing linear; appendage ovate, erect, ob- 
tuse, mucronate, contracted at the base. 
6-10 i. S. 
Jla'va, (y. J. 2^.) leaves large, funnel- 
form, throat expanding ; lateral wing near- 
ly wanting; appendage erect, contracted 
at base ; re flexed at the sides. 18-24 i. S 
variola' vis, (y. J. 2^.) leaves slightly ven- 
tricose, with the tube near the summit spot- 
ted on the back ; appendage arched, in- 
curved ; lateral wing slightly dilated ; stig- 
ma acute at the angles. 12-18 i. S. 
drummon" dii, (p.) leaves erect, very long, 
tube dilated above, with very narrow wing; 
tube and lamina whitish and strongly re- 
ticulated with purplish veins. Florida. 
psittaci! na , (p. Mar.) leaves short, recl»> 
ned, marked with white spots ; tube infla- 
ted, with a broad semi-obovate wing , lantu 
