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VOCABULARY. 
the tubes and little cells of vege- 
tables. 
Sapor. Having taste. 
Sarmen'tose. Running on the ground, 
and striking root from the joints 
only, as the strawberry. 
Sar'cocarp. from sarx, flesh, and 
karpos, fruit; the fleshy part of 
fruit. 
Sca'ber or Sca'brous. Plough. 
Scandens. Climbing. 
Scape. A stalk which springs from 
the root, and supports flowers and 
fruit but no leaves, as the dandeli 
on. 
Sca'rious. Having a thin membra 
nous margin. 
Scattered. Standing without any re- 
gular order. 
Scions. Shoots proceeding laterally 
from the roots or bulb of a root 
Segment. A part or principal divi- 
sion of a leaf, calyx or corolla 
Semper vi'rens. Living through the 
winter, and retaining its leaves. 
Serrate. Notched like the teeth of a 
saw. 
Ser'rulate. Minutely serrate. 
Sessile. Sitting down ; placed im- 
mediately on the. main stem with- 
out a foot stalk. 
Seta. A bristle. 
Scta'ceous. Bristle-form. 
Shaft. A pillar, sometimes applied 
to the style. 
Sheath. A tubular or folded leafy 
portion including within it. the stem. 
Shoot. Each tree and shrub sends 
a roundish cavity in the edge of 
the leaf or petal. 
So'ri. Plural of sorus ; fruit dots on 
ferns. 
Spa'dix. An elongated receptacle 
of flowers, commonly proceeding 
from a spatha. 
Spa'tha. A sheathing calyx opening 
lengthwise on one side, and con- 
sisting of one or more valves. 
Spat'ulale. Large, obtuse at the end, 
gradually tapering into a stalk at 
the base. 
Spe cies. The lowest division of ve- 
getables. 
Specific. Belonging to a species 
only. 
Sper'ma. Seed. 
Spike. A kind of inflorescence in 
which the flowers are sessile, or 
nearly so, as in the mullien, or 
wheat. 
Spike'let. A small spike. 
Spin'dle shaped. Thick at top, gra- 
dually tapering, fusiform. 
Spine. A thorn or sharp process 
growing from the wood. 
Spino'sus. Thorny. 
Spiral. Twisted like a screw. 
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 colour, 
sometimes called ergot ; the black 
kind is called the malignant ergot. 
Grain growing in low moist 
ground, or new land, is most sub- 
ject to it. 
forth annually a large shoot in the Squamo'sus. Scaly, 
spring and another in June. Squarro'sc. Ragged, having diver- 
Slirub. A plant with a woody stem,! gent scales. 
branching out nearer the ground Stamen. That part of the flower on 
than a tree, usually smaller. 
Siccus. Dry. 
Siiicle. A seed vessel constructed 
like a silique, but not longer than 
it is broad. 
Silique. A long pod or seed vessel 
of two valves, having the seed at- 
tached to the two edges alternate- 
•y- 
Simple. Not divided, branched or 
compounded. 
Sin uate. The margin hollowed out 
resembling a bay. 
Sinus. A bay; applied to the plant, 
which the artificial classes are 
founded. 
Staniinatc. Having stamens with- 
out pistils. 
Standard. See banner. 
Stellate. Like a star. 
Stem. A general supporter of leaves, 
flowers and fruit. 
Slemless. Having no stem. 
Sterile. Barren. 
Stig'ma. The summit, or top of the 
pistil. 
Stipe. The stem of a fern, or fun- 
