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SrssiLE. Sitting directly on the point of support without any intervening foot-stalk or 
etiole. 
eats A bristle of any kind; a stiff hair. 
Spmraceous. Bristle-like. 
SpriroRM. Having the shape of a bristle. 
SerigbRovus. Bearing bristles or furnished with bristles. 
SrerosE. Beset with bristles. 
SpruLose. Provided with minute slender bristles. 
Sueatu. A tubular envelope investing the stem, as the lower part of the leaf in grasses. 
Sruicute. A short pod or siliqua, not much longer than broad. 
Sirigua. The pod-like fruit of the Cruciferae, having two valves falling away from a 
frame (replum) on which the seeds are placed. 
SmmpLe. Of one piece; not compound. 
SrinuatE. Having a deep waved margin. 
Srnus. An angular or rounded recess or depression separating lobes or segments. 
SmootH. (1.) Having an even surface; not rough; opposed to “ scabrous.” 
(2.) Glabrous or free from hairs ; opposed to “* pubescent.” 
Sorus. A cluster of sporangia in ferns. 
Spaprx. A spike with a thickened fleshy rhachis and usually enclosed or subtended 
by a large bract or spathe, as in many Aroids. | 
Sparse. Thinly scattered. 
Spatue. A large often coloured bract enclosing an inflorescence, usually a spadix. 
SparHuLaTe. Oblong, with the lower end much drawn out, so as to resemble a druggist’s 
spatula. 
Species. A group of all those individuals possessing the same constant and distinctive 
characters, 
SprcATE. Like a spike, or arranged in a spike. 
Sprxr. An inflorescence having several or many sessile flowers arranged on a lengthened 
axis, the lower flowers opening first. 
SprKELET. In grasses and sedges, applied to a cluster or small spike of one or more 
flowers, usually subtended by a pair of glumes. 
Spring. A sharp woody or rigid outgrowth from the stem ; a modified branch, leaf, or 
stipule. 
SprinescENT. Ending in a spine or sharp point. 
Sprnose, Furnished with or resembling spines. 
SprnuLose. Having small spines; the diminutive of “ spinose.” 
Sporaneium. In the higher Cryptogams, the case or sac which contains the spores. 
Spore. In Cryptogams, a minute body or cell capable of germination, but not possessing 
an embryo as in a true seed. 
Spur. A slender tubular process from some part of a flower, often containing nectar. 
S@uAMATE, SQuaMosE. Furnished with scales; scaly or scale-like. 
SquarRose. Rough with spreading projections or processes, as the tips of bracts. 
Sramen. The pollen-bearing organ of the flower, consisting of an anther usually borne 
on a filament or stalk. 
STAMINIFEROUS. Stamen-bearing. 
Sramrnopium. A sterile or abortive stamen. 
SranpaRD. The broad upper petal of a papilionaceous flower. 
SreLLaTH. Star-shaped ; radiating from a centre like the points of a star. 
Stem. The main ascending axis of a plant. 
Srerity. Barren; applied to flowers wanting a pistil, or to stamens destitute of 
anthers or pollen. 
Stiama. That portion of the pistil which receives the pollen, usually situated at the 
tip of the style. 
Stiematic. Relating to or belonging to the stigma. 
SrigmaTosE. Provided with stigmas. 
Sripzs. (1.) The petiole or foot-stalk of the frond of a fern, (2.) The stalk or support 
of the gynaeceum or carpel, or other organ. 
Strpetua. A secondary stipule, sometimes found at the base of the leaflets of compound 
leaves. 
StipiraTe. Borne on a stalk or stipes. 
StreuLaTEe. Provided with stipules. : 
SrreuLe. Appendages of various kinds arising from the base of the petiole of a leaf. 
fine A horizontal sucker or runner from the base of a plant, usually rooting at 
the tip. 
STOLONIFEROUS. Sending out stolons. 
Srriate. Marked with fine longitudinal lines. 
