434 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Ru'minate.—Applied to the albumen of certain seeds when the perisperm is 
found coursing through the endosperm in irregular fashion. 
Run'cinate.—Applied to a pinnately-cleft leaf whose lobes are directed back¬ 
ward as in the Dandelion. 
Run'ner.—A stem or branch which roots at intervals as it trails along the ground. 
Sac'cate.—Pouch-like. 
Sag'ittate.—Arrow-shaped. 
Sama'ra.—A winged fruit. 
Sap'rophyte.—An organism that lives upon decaying or dead organic matter. 
Sar'cocarp.—The fleshy portion of a drupe or other fruit. 
Sca'brous.—Said of leaves, etc. that are rough or harsh to the touch. 
Scalar'iform.—Applied to tracheae or tracheids whose walls show trausversely 
arranged bars, resembling the rongs of a ladder. 
Scan'dent.—Climbing. 
Scape.—A naked peduncle arising from a root or underground stem. 
Sca'rious.—Dry and membranous. 
Schiz'ocarp.—A fruit that separates when mature into 2 or more indehiscent 
mericarps. 
Schizogenous.—Said of intercellular-air-spaces or of reservoirs that are formed 
by the breaking down of the middle lamellae of cells where several come to¬ 
gether and the later separation of the cells at these places. 
Sci'on.—A shoot intended for grafting. 
Scleren'chyma.—Dignified tissue. 
Sclero'tium.—A hardened mass of mycelium. 
Scor'pioid.—Applied to certain cymes whose flowers are situated on alternate 
sides of the floral axis. 
ScutelTum.—A shield-shaped expansion of the hypocotyl of Graminea, which 
absorbs nouirshment from the endosperm during germination and bales it 
out to the rest of the embryo. 
Sec'undine.—The outer coat of the ovule. 
Seed.—A fertilized and matured ovule containing an embryo. 
Se'pal.—A leaf of the calyx. 
Sep'tate.—Possessing one or more partitions. 
Septici'dal.—A mode of dehiscence in which the opening occurs along the line 
of junction of the carpels. 
Septifra'gal.—A method of dehiscence in which the valves of a capsular fruit 
break away from the partitions or septa. 
Sep'tum.—A partition between cavities in an ovary or fruit or between cells in 
a tissue. 
Seric'eous.—Silky. Having a covering of fine, soft, appressed, silky hairs. 
Ser'rate.—Toothed with teeth projecting toward the apex. 
Ser'rulate.—Finely serrate. 
Ses'sile.—Without a stalk. 
