180 SIL 
1—1. SALICORNIA. (From an old French word, salicor.) 
Herba’cea, (samphire, glasswort. L. Au. %) herbaceous, spreading ; 
joints compressed at the apex, emarginate bifid. Var. virginica, has 
the branches undivided, and the jointed spikes very long. The 
fructification is very obscure ; but it may be known by its leafless 
nearly cylindric jointed branches. It grows in salt marshes along 
the sea-board, and at Onondaga salt springs. 12—18. i. 
20—2. SALIX. 
Babyloni’ca, (weeping willow. M. kp) branchlets pendant; leaves lance- 
olate, acuminate, serrate glabrous, upper and lower sides of different 
colours; stipules roundish, contracted; aments fiower at leafing 
time; germs sessile, ovate, glabrous. Supposed to be the willow on 
which the Israelites hung their harps, when captive in Babylon. In- 
troduced. 
2—1. SALVIA. (From salvo, to save.) 
Exotic. 
Offcina’lis, (sage. b. J. 2Lor kh) leaves lance-ovate, crenulate; whorls 
few-flowered ; calyx mucronate. 
5—3. SAMBUCUS. 
Canaden/’’sis, (black-berried-elder. O. w. J. 2) branchlets and petioles 
glabrous; leafets about in 4 pairs, oblong-oval, glabrous, shining, 
acuminate ; cyme lax, divided into about 5 parts. 8—15. f. 
138—1. SANGUINARIA, (From sangwis, blood.) 
Canaden’’sis, (blood-root. O. w. Ap. 2) leaves sub-reniform, sinuate- 
lobed; scape 1-flowered. A variety, has linear petals. 6—10. i. 
10—2. SAPONARIA. (From sapo, soap.) 
Exotic. 
Officina’lis, (soapwort, bouncing bet. w. J. 2|) calyx cylindric; leaves 
lance-ovate, opposite sub-connate, entire. Probably introduced, and 
naturalized. 10—18. i. 
10—2. SAXIFRAGA. (From sarum, a stone, and frango, to 
break.) 
Sarmentosa, (beef-steak geranium. w. Au. 2) leaves roundish, tooth- 
ed, hairy; sending off creeping shoots; 2 petals in each flower 
longer. 
- 13-1. SCUTELLARIA. (From scutella, a shield.) 
Lateriflo’ra, (mad-dog, scull-cap, hood-wort. O. b. Ju. 2) branching, 
glabrous; leaves long-petioled, ovate, toothed ; cauline ones sub-cor- 
date ; racemes lateral, leafy. Damp. 1—2. f. 
3—2. SECALE. 
Cerea’le, (rye. J. &) glumes and bristles scabrous-ciliate; corolla 
smooth. Introduced. 
10—3. SILENE. (From Silenus, a bacchanalian of ancient times.) 
Pennsylva’nica, (pink-catchfly. p. M. J. 2) viscidly pubescent ; radical- 
