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Sagittale. Shaped like the head of a barbed arrow. 
Salver-shaped. Formed like an ancient salver. The flower 
of the Primrose is a good example. 
Scarious. Scale-like and membranous. 
Sepals. The subordinate parts of the calyx. See Floral 
Whorls. 
Serrulate. Jagged regularly like the teeth of a saw. 
Spathe. A leaf-like involucrum surrounding the flower, at 
last in the bud. 
Stamens. See Floral Whorls. 
Stigma. A portion of the pistil divested of epidermis. 
See Floral Whorls. 
Stipule. A peculiar leaf-like expansion at the base of the 
leaf-stalk in certain plants. 
Style. The portion between the ovary and stigma, in 
some pistils. See Floral Whorls. 
Superior. See Inferior. 
Teeth. The little incisions on the edges of leaves, &c. 
Tubercle. A wart-like excrescence. 
Umbel. Where the small stalks which support the flowers 
are ail seated at the end of a coinmon support, and are 
about the same length. 
Whorl. Where any parts are set round an axis in the 
spne plane. 
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