SeptVerous; bearing a septum.
Septzfragal 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, glosay im pressed hairs.
Series. A division or comprehentfive group of objects In natural history; also, a continued 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 segments of s serrate margin.
Serrutate; finely serrate ; having small teeth or serratures. Sessile; sitting closely; without any foot stalk cr pedicel. Seta (plural, setts). A bristle; a stiffish elastic hair. Any slender or bristle-like body.
Setaceous ; bristle-like; resembling a bristle in size and. flgu re.
Setose; bristly; having the surface covered with bristles. 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 email woody plant. branching near the ground, often without any principal stem.
Shrubby; hard and woody; of the texture and size of e shrub.
A little or short Biligne, nearly as wide as long. Sifigue. A long slender pod, or membranous seed-vessel of two valves, having the seeds fixed alternately along both sutures.
Siliquose; having eiliquee, or resembling a silique. Simple; undivided; not branched; not compound. Simple umbel. When each ray terminates in a single flower, instead of a secondary or partial umbel. Sinuate; having sinuses, ecahope, or gashes which are open and rounded at bottom.
Sinuate-dentate, Sinuate-serrate; having teeth, or ser ratures, with the clefts or openings rounded at bottom. Sinus. An open notch; a rounded incision, or scallop. Solitary; standing alone; one only in a place.
Spadix. A sort of dense flowered, fleshy or club-like• spike etlunsguisnl viyobieenrve called a by, or proceeding a.
roceeding from, s Span; a measure of nine inches.
Spathaceoue; having a spathe, or resembling a spathe.
Spathe. A sheathing kind of bract, common calyx, iuvoluere, open on one side, often containing the apadix..
spathulate, or epatulate; 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 comprleing all similar individuals.
Specific; belonging to, or distinguishing the apeciee. Sphacetate; dark colored, as if gangrenous, or dead. Sphagnous; full of bog-moss, or sphagnum.
Spicate; in the form, or after the manner of a spike. Spike. Inflorescence in which the flowers are amine on the sides of a long common peduncle, or rachia. Spike/st. A little spike, or subdivision of a compound spike.
Spindle-shaped; (See Fusiform).
Spine. A thorn; a sharp process originating in the wood, 1. e. pointed abortive branch.
Spimelloee; armed with minute spines.
Spin,escent; becoming thorny, or inclining to be thorny. Spinose; horny; armed with thorue.
Spinuloee; covered with small spines.
Spores, or eporutes. The seminal equivalents, or anal ogues of seeds, in cryptogamous plants.
Spur. A tapering hollow production of the base of a pe tal, or sepal, usually called a nectary.
Spurred; having a spur, or spur-like elongations. Bquamoee; scaly; covered more or less with scales. Sguoirrose; jagged ; having spreading tips, or divaricata points, all round, as the scales of some mvolucrea. Stamen. The organ of a flower which prepares the pollen, usually consisting of a filament and anther, and situated between the corolla and pistils.
Staminate flower. Having stamens, but not pistils. Staminiferoue ; bearing or supporting the stamens. Stantinodia. Imperfect organs occupying the position of, and resembling stamens, being the transition stage be tween petals and stamens.
Stellate; like a star ; arranged like the rays of a star. Stetlutar; radiating after the manner of little stare. 'Relator pubescence. Compound or faaciculate hairs, with the branches spreading like rays.