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Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the sh…

The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

Same as Rattlebox.

lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

Roseroot.

Same as Burstwort.

e given to several plants which grow on the seashore, as the Batis maritima, and the glasswort. See Glasswort. Black saltwort, the sea milkwort.

Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllace\'91.)

Any plant of the composite genus Serratula; -- so named from the serrated leaves of most of the species.

Elecampane.

A leguminous plant (Ornithopus scorpides) of Southern Europe, having curved pods.

Sea cabbage.

A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.

See Sea chickweed.

The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent.

Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.

The bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

A composite plant (Aster Tripolium) growing along the seacoast of Europe.

A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.