Septi/erous; bearing a septum.
Septifragal dehiscence. When the dissepiments remain attached to the axis, while the valves break away from them.
Septum. The partition which divides the cells of fruit. Sericeous; silky; covered with soft, smooth, glossy ap- pressed hairs.
Series. A division or comprehensive group of objects in natural history ; also, a conttnued succession of things of the same order.
Serrate; sawed; having sharp teeth on the margin, point ing towards the apex.
Serratures. The teeth, or sharp segment§ of a serrate margin.
Serrulate; finely serrate ; having small teeth or serratures.. Sessile; sitting closely; without any foot stalk pedicel. Seta (plural, setts). A bristle; a stiffish elastic hair. Any slender or uristle-like body.
Setareous; bristle-like; resembling a bristle in size and figure.
Setose; bristly; having the surface covered with bristlea. Sheath. A membranous expansion which is tubular, or convolute, and inclosing or embracing a stem.
Shea hed; inclosed or embraced by a sheath.
Sheathing; embracing the stem with a sheath.
Shining; glossy, smooth and bright.
Shrub. A small woody plant. branching near the ground, often without any principal stem.
Shrubby ; hard and woody ; of the texture and size of shrub.
Silicle. A little or short silique, nearly as wide as long. Siligie. A lung slender pod, or membranous seed-vessel) of two valves, having the seeds fixed alternately along: both sutures.
Siiiiluose; having siliqnes, or resembling a silique. Simple; undivided; nut branched; not compound.
Simple umbel. When each ray terminates in a single: flower, instead of a secondary or pat tilt] umbel.
Sinuate; having sinuses, scallops, or gashes which are• open and rounded at bottom.
Sinuate-dentats, Sinuate-serrate; having teeth, or ser ratures. with the clefts or openings rounded at bottom. Sinus. An open notch; a rounded incisi. n, or scallop. Solitary; standing alone; one only in a place.
Spadix. A sort of dense flowered, fleshy or club-like• spike, usually enveloped by, or proceeding from, a sheathing iuvolucre called a spathe. •
Sean; a measure of nine inches.
Spathaceous; having a spathe, or resembling a spathe. Spathe. A sheathing kind of bract, common calyx, or iuvolucre, open on one side, often containing the spadix...
Spathulate, or spatulate; like a spatula; obovate-oblong, or larger and rounder at the end, and tapering to the base.
-Species. The lowest permanent division of natural ob jects. in a systematic arrangement; a group comprising all similar individuals.
Specific; belonging id., or distinguishing the species. Sphmelate ; dark colored, as if gangrenous, or dead. Sph g;t0 us; full of bug-moss, or sphagnum.
Spicate; iu the form, or after the manner of a spike.
Spi ,e. hiliciresceucd in which the flowers are sessile on the sides of a long common peduncle, or rachis. Spikelet. A little spike, or subdivision of a compound spike.
Spindle-shaped; (See Fusiform).
.Spine. A thorn; a, sharp process originating in the wood, i.e. pointed abortive branch.
armed with minute spines.
.4in.seent; 13..i,orniug thorny, or inclining to be thorny. Spinoee ; horny; armed wits thorns.
Spinal me; covered wig h small spines.
Spores, or sporules. The seminal equivalents, or anal ogues of seeds. in cryptugarnous plants.
Spur. A t .pering b •how production of the base of a pe tal, or sepal, usually called is nectary.
-Spurred; having a spur, or spur-like elongations. Sguaniose; scdly ; covered more or less with scales. _Spar rase ; ja:ged; having spreading tips, or divaricate points, all r und, as the scales of some involucres. Stamen. The organ of a flower which prepares the pollen, usually consisting of a filament and anther, and situated between the co. olla and pistils.
.Starninate flower. Hiving stamens, but not pistils. Stamin fero ; bearing or supporting the s tame us. Stantinodia. Imperfect organs occupying the position of, add resembling stamens, being the transition stage be tw•en petals and stamens.