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Sac. A pouch, especially
in the cavities of anthers.
Saccate. With a pouch or sac.
Saggitate. Like an arrow-head, with the
lobes turned downward.
Samara. A simple indehiscent winged
fruit.
Saphrophyte. A plant which grows on dead
organic matter.
Scabrous. Rough.
Scale. A minute, rudimentary, or
vestigial leaf.
Scape. A leafless or nearly
leafless stem or peduncle, arising from a subterranean part of a
plant, bearing a flower or flower-cluster.
Scapose. Having scapes, or resembling
a scape.
Scarious. Thin, dry, and translucent, not
green.
Scorpioid. Coiled up in the bud,
unrolling in growth.
Secund. Borne along one side of an
axis.
Segment. A division of a a leaf or
fruit.
Sepal. One of the leaves of a calyx.
Septate. Provided with partitions.
Septicidal. A capsule which splits
longitudinally into and through its disseptiments.
Serrate. With teeth projecting
forward.
Serrulate. Diminutive of serrate ;
serrate with small teeth.
Sessile. Without a stalk.
Setaceous. Bristle-like.
Setose. Bristly.
Silicle. A silique much longer than
wide.
Silique. An elongated two-valved
capsular fruit, with two parietal placentae, usually dehiscent.
Sinuate. With strongly wavy margins.
Sinuous. In form like the path of a
snake.
Sinus. the space between the lobes
of a leaf.
Sorus (Sori). A group or cluster of
sporanges.
Spadiceous.
Like or pertaining to a spadix.
Spadix. A fleshy spike of flowrs.
Spathaceous. Resembling a spathe.
Spathe. A bract, usually more or
less concave, subtending a spadix.
Spatulate. Shaped
like a spatula ; spoon-shaped.
Spermatozoids. Cells developed in the
antherid, for the fertilization of the oösphere.
Spicate. Arranged in a spike ; like a
spike.
Spike. An elongated flower cluster
or cluster of sporanges, with sessile or nearly sessile flowers or
sporanges.
Spikelet.
Diminutive of spike ; especially applied to flower-clusters of grasses
and sedges.
Spinose. With spines or similar to
spines.
Spinule. A small sharp projection.
Spinulose. With small sharp processes
or spines.
Sporange. A sac containg spores.
Spore. An asexual vegetative cell.
Sporocarp. Organ containg sporanges or
sori.
Sporophyte. The asexual generation of
plants.
Spreading. Diverging nearly at right
angles ; nearly prostrate.
Spur. A hollow projection from a
floral organ.
Squarrose. with spreading or projecting
parts.
Stamen. The organ of a flower which
bears the microspores (pollen-grains).
Staminodium.
A sterile stamen, or other organ in the position of a stamen.
Standard. The upper, usually broad,
petal of a papilionaceous corolla.
Stigma. The summit or side of the
pistil to which pollen-grains become attached.
Stipe. The stalk of an organ.
Stipitate. Provided with a stipe.
Stipules. Appendages to the base of a
petiole, often adnate to it.
Stipulate. With stipules.
Stolon. A basal branch rooting at
the nodes.
Stoloniferous. Producing or bearing stolons.
Stoma (Stomata). The transpiring
orifices in the epidermis of plants.
Strict. Straight and erect.
Strigose. With appressed or ascending
stiff hairs.
Strophiole. An appendage to a seed at
the hilum.
Strophiolate. With a strophiole.
Style. The narowed top of the ovary.
Stylopodium. The expanded base of a style.
Subacute. Somewhat acute.
Subcordate.
Somewhat heart-shaped.
Subcoriaceous. Approaching leathery in
texture.
Subfalcate. Somewhat scythe-shaped.
Subligneous. Somewhat woody in texture.
Subterete. Nearly terete.
Subulate. Awl-shaped.
Subversatile. Partly or imperfetly
versatile.
Succulent. Soft and juicy.
Sulcate. Grooved longitudinally.
Superior. Applied to the ovary when
free from the calyx ; or to a calyx adnate to an ovary.
Suture. A line of splitting
or opening.
Symmetrical. Applied to a flower with its
parts of equal numbers.
Syncarp. A fleshy multiple or
aggregate fruit.
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Volume 1, page xx - xxi: Nathanie1 L.
Britton amd Addison Lord Brown, An
Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States,Canada, and the
British Possessions from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern
Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d
Meridian, Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1913
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