Botanical Glossary 'S'

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Scabrid: rough to the touch.
Scarious: thin, not green, stiff & dry.
Sepals: leaf like, just below flower.
Septate: divided into segments by walls.
Septum: a partition.
Serrate: toothed like .a saw. See Fig $16.
Serrulate: as above..
Setaceous: shaped like a bristle.
Setose: bristly.
Spathulate: paddle shaped. See Fig. S17.
Spinous: spiny.
Spinescent: spiny, tapering.
Sporangium: structure containing asexual spores.
    Stigma:receptive surface of the gynoecium, to
    which pollen grains adhere.
Stipules: a scale like leaf! appendage, at base of
    petiole, adnate to it.
Stoloniferous: creeping stems of short duration,
    produced by plants with central rosette or erect
    stem above ground, for perinnation.
Striate: marked with long narrow depressions.
Strigulose: having stiff appressed hairs.
Stylopodium: enlarged base of styles.
Sub acute: not acute.
Sub cordate: not completely cordate. See Fig.012.
Sub cylindrical: not entirely cylindrical.
Sub entire: not quite entire.
Sub globose: not quite round.
Sub orbicular: less than rounded, length &
    breadth about same. See Fig. 011.
Sub ovoid: not quite ovoid/egg shaped.
Sub sessile: with a slight stalk.
Sub tending: having a bud or developed from
    a bud, or a sporangium in the axil.
Sub terete: ridged or grooved only slightly.
    Subulate : awl shaped, narrowed, pointed +
    > or < flattened.

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