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_Sheathing._ Enclosing as by a sheath.

_Shrub._ A woody perennial, smaller than a tree.

_Silicle._ A short silique.

_Silique._ The peculiar pod of Cruciferae.

_Silky._ Covered with close-pressed soft and straight p.u.b.escence.

_Simple._ Of one piece; not compound.

_Sinuate._ With the outline of the margin strongly wavy.

_Sinus._ The cleft or recess between two lobes.

_Smooth._ Without roughness or p.u.b.escence.

_Sorus_ (pl. _Sori_). A heap or cl.u.s.ter, applied to the fruit-dots of Ferns.

_Spadix._ A spike with a fleshy axis.

_Spathe._ A large bract or pair of bracts enclosing an inflorescence.

_Spatulate._ Gradually narrowed downward from a rounded summit.

_Spicate._ Arranged in or resembling a spike.

_Spiciform._ Spike-like.

_Spike._ A form of simple inflorescence with the flowers sessile or nearly so upon a more or less elongated common axis.

_Spikelet._ A small or secondary spike.

_Spindle-shaped._ Same as Fusiform.

_Spine._ A sharp woody or rigid outgrowth from the stem.

_Spinose._ Spine-like, or having spines.

_Sporangium._ A spore-case.

_Spore._ The reproductive organ in Cryptogams which corresponds to a seed.

_Sporocarp._ The fruit-cases of certain Cryptogams containing sporangia or spores.

_Spur._ A hollow sac-like or tubular extension of some part of a blossom, usually nectariferous.

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