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_Runcinate._ Sharply incised, with the segments directed backward.

_Runner._ A filiform or very slender stolon.

_Saccate._ Sac-shaped.

_Sagittate._ Shaped like an arrow-head, the basal lobes directed downward.

_Salver-shaped_ (corolla). Having a slender tube abruptly expanded into a flat limb.

_Samara._ An indehiscent winged fruit.

_Scabrous._ Rough to the touch.

_Scalariform_ (vessels). Having transverse markings like the rounds of a ladder.

_Scape._ A peduncle rising from the ground, naked or without proper foliage.

_Scapose._ Bearing or resembling a scape.

_Scarious._ Thin, dry, and membranaceous, not green.

_Scorpioid_ (inflorescence). Circinately coiled while in bud.

_Scurf._ Small bran-like scales on the epidermis.

_Scymitar-shaped_ (leaf). Curved with a flat-triangular section, the straighter edge the thickest.

_Seed._ The ripened ovule, consisting of the embryo and its proper coats.

_Segment._ One of the parts of a leaf or other like organ that is cleft or divided.

_Sepal._ A division of a calyx.

_Septicidal_ (capsule). Dehiscing through the part.i.tions and between the cells.

_Septum._ Any kind of part.i.tion.

_Serrate._ Having teeth pointing forward.

_Serrulate._ Finely serrate.

_Sessile._ Without footstalk of any kind.

_Setaceous._ Bristle-like.

_Setose._ Beset with bristles.

_Setulose._ Having minute bristles.

_Sheath._ A tubular envelope, as the lower part of the leaf in Gra.s.ses.