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BRITISH NAMES. 
Sea-grass 
Sea-weed 
Sedge ; or char 
Sechim, cobweb 
Sedum, saxifrage 
Seed, heart 
Seed, heart 
Segs 
Selery * * (a variety) see' Smaliage 
Seleriac (a variety) 
Self-heal, common 
Senna of the shops 
Senna, bladder 
Senna, Ethiopian bladdef 
Senna, jointed-podded bladder; 
or scorpion senna 
Sengreen ; or snowy saxifrage 
Sensitive fern 
Sensitive plant 
Sensitive wood-sorrel 
Sensitive plant 
Sensitive plant 
Sensitive plant 
Sensitive plant, base 
Sensitive tree 
Septfoil; or torment’d, common 
Sermountain ; or laserwort 
Ruppia maritimd 
Fucus 
Carex divisa 
' Sempervivum arachnoideunt 
Saxifraga sedoides 
Brassica vesica via 
Cardiospermum 
Iris pseud-acorus 
Apium graveolens (dulce) 
Apium graveolens 
Prunella vulgaris 
Cassia senna 
Colutea arborescens 
Colutea frutescens 
Coronilla emerus 
Saxifraga nivalis 
Onoclea sensibilis 
Smithia sensitiva 
Oxalis sensitiva 
f Mimosa f sensitiva and pu - 
1 dica 
Hedysarum girans 
Dion&a muscipula 
Mschynomene 
Avtrrhoa caramhola 
Tormentilla erecta 
Laserpitium siler 
tute the istmus between the animal and vegetable kingdoms, as they partake of 
both. They can exist without light or much air; and the odour of a fungus when 
burning, smells like burning feathers, and they putrefy like animal flesh: and it is 
said a weak broth for an invalid, may be made by a little catchup mixed with thin 
gruel, with shred parsley and a little salt, so as to deceive the taste. It is also as¬ 
serted by Van Humboldt, that he converted morels into fat, by sulphuric acid and 
water, which seems analogous to that formed from muscular flesh.—See Phylolo- 
gia, p. 486 and 301.— Botanic Garden, p. 42.—See also Rousseau’s Letters on the 
Elements of Botany, under the word truffle. —See note to lycoperdon. 
* Selery is generally spelt celery , but as it is derived from the Greek, it ought to 
be selery. Skinner’s Etymolo. Ling. Anglic anas. 
f Mimosa sensitiva and pudica are both sensitive plants, and are biennial; the 
first shews its sensibility, when touched, by the collapsing of the leaflets only; the 
second is called the humble sensitive, by the collapsing of the leaflets and footstalk. 
