Scutellate, shaped like a platter, [156].

Scyphus, cup-like dilatation of the podetium, [111], [117].

Signature, a term in ancient medicine to signify the resemblance of a plant to any part of the human body, [406], [409].

Soralium, group of soredia surrounded by a definite margin, [144].

Soredium, minute separable particle arising from the gonidial tissue of the thallus, and consisting of algae and hyphae, [141].

Spermatium, spore-like body borne in the spermogonium, regarded as a non-motile male cell or as a pycnidiospore, [201].

Spermogonium, roundish closed receptacle containing spermatia, [192].

Sphaeroid-cell, swollen hyphal cell, containing fat globules, [215].

Squamule, a small thalline lobe or scale, [74] et passim.

Sterigma, Nylander’s term for the spermatiophore, [197].