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Sessile. Sitting down; placed immediately on the main stem without 
a foot stalk. ’ 
Seta. A bristle. 
Seta’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 forth annually a large shoot in the 
spring, and another in June. 
Shrub. A plant with a woody stem, branching out nearer the ground 
than a tree, usually smaller. 
Sic’cus. Dry. 
Sil/icle. A seed vessel constructed like a silique, but not longer than 
itis broad. 
Silique. A long pod or seed vessel of two valves, having the seed at- 
tached to the two edges alternately. 
Simple. Not divided, branched, or compounded. 
Sin’uate. 'The margin hollowed out resembling a bay. 
Si’nus. A bay; applied to the plant, a roundish cavity in the edge 
of the leaf or petal. 
So’rt, (plural of Soros.) Fruit dots on ferns. 
Spa’diz. 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/ulate. Large, obtuse at the end, gradually tapering into a stalk 
at the base. 
Spe’cies. The lowest division of vegetables. 
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 mullein, or wheat. 
Spike’let. A small spike. 
Spin’dle-shaped. Thick at top, gradually tapering, fusiform. 
Spine. A thorn or sharp process growing from the wood. 
Spino’sus. ‘Thorny. 
Spr’ral. ‘Twisted like a screw. 
Spur. A sharp hollow projection froma flower, commonly the nectary. 
Spur’red-rye. A morbid swelling of the seed, of a black or dark co- 
lour, sometimes called ergot; the black kind is called the malig- 
nant ergot. Grain growing in low moist ground. or new land, is 
most subject to it. 
Squamo’sus. Sealy. 
Squarro’se. Ragged, having divergent scales. 
Stamen. That part of the flower on which the artificial classes are 
founded. 
Stam/inate. Waving stamens without pistils. 
Standard. See Banner. 
Stel/late. Like a star. 
Stem. A general supporter of leaves, flowers, and fruit. 
Stemless. Having no stem. 
Sterile. Barren. 
