The Names of Plants

The Names of Plants spumarius -a -um foamy, frothing, spuma, spumae spumescens becoming frothy, of frothy appearance, spumesco, spumescere spumeus -a -um foaming, frothy, spuma, spumae spumosus -a -um with a frothy or foamy appearance, spuma, spumae spurcatus -a -um fouled, nasty, filthy, spurcus spurius -a -um false, bastard, spurius squalens, squalidus -a -um untidy, dingy, squalid, squaleo, squalere, sqalui squamarius -a -um, squamosus -a -um scale-clad, covered with scales, with scale-like leaves, squama, squamae squamatus -a -um with small scale-like leaves or bracts (squamae), squamate squameus -a -um scaly, squama, squamae squamigerus -era -erum scale-bearing, squama-gero squamosorodicosus -a -um with gnawed scales, with irregular-shaped scales, squamosus-(rodo, rodere, rosi, rosum) squarrosus -a -um rough, squarrosus (when closely overlapping leaves have protruding tips or sharp edges, cognate with squamosus) squarrulosus -a -um somewhat rough or scurfy, diminutive of squarrosus squillus -a -um shrimp-like; squill-like, squilla, squillae stabilis -is -e firm, lasting, not changeable, stabilis stachy- spike-like-, staxuj, resembling Stachys Stachygynandrum Spiked-female-male, staxuj-gunh-androj ( Lycopodium pro parte) stachyoides resembling Stachys, staxuj-oeidhj -stachyon , -stachys, stachyus -a -um -spiked, narrowly-panicled, staxuj Stachys Spike, staxuj (the Greek name used by Dioscorides for several deadnettles) Stachytarpheta Thick-spike, staxuj-tarfuj (the densely flowered spike) Stachyurus Spiked-tail, staxuj-oura (the shape of the inflorescence) (Stachyuraceae) Stackhousia for John Stackhouse (1740–1819), British botanist (Stackhousiaceae) stagnalis -is -e of pools, stagno, stagnare stagninus -a -um of swampy or boggy ground, stagnum stamineus -a -um with prominent or many stamens, stamineus (stamen a filament) staminodiosus -a -um with many sterile stamens or staminodes, modern Latin from stamen, staminis staminosus -a -um the stamens being a marked feature of the flowers, stamen, staminis standishii for John Standish (1814–75), of Standish and Noble nurseries at Sunningdale, Berkshire Stangeria for William Stanger (d. 1854), Surveyor General of Natal Stanhopea for Philip Henry, Fourth Earl of Stanhope (1781–1855), President of the Medico-Botanical Society Stanleya, stanleyi for Edward, Lord Stanley, Thirteenth Earl of Derby (1775–1851), of Knowsley, ornithologist and lover of natural history art stans self-supporting, upright, erect, standing, sto, stare, steti, statum Stapelia named by Linnaeus for Johannes Bodaeus von Stapel (d. 1631), Dutch physician of Amsterdam stapeliiformis -is -e with the habit of Stapelia, Stapelia-forma stapfianus -a -um, stapfii for Dr Otto Stapf (1857–1933), Keeper of the Herbarium at Kew staphisagrius -a -um like wild grapes, stafulh-agrioj Staphylea Cluster, stafulh (Pliny refers a name, staphylodendron, to the bunched flowers; used by Linnaeus for the nature of the inflorescence) (Staphyleaceae) -staphylos -raceme, -bunch, stafulh (as of grapes) stasophilus -a -um living in stagnant water, loving stagnant waters, staso-filoj -states -standing, -placed, statoj Statice Astringent, statikoj (Dioscorides’ name, statikh, for the Limonium of gardeners) ( Limonium) 360