solan, soland, suland

[Icel. sula =gannet. ( Skeat.)] [BooBY.] (See compound.) solan-goose, soland-goose, s. Ornith.: The gannet, Sula ba ana . Bill grayish white, naked skin of the face blue, iris pale yellow, head and neck buff, the primaries black, all the rest of the plumage white in the adult, front of the legs and tarsi green. Length thirty-four inches. They breed in immense numbers on the Ba Rock, in the Frith of Forth, the coasts of the Baltic, Iceland, North America, and South Africa. [BOOBY, GAN NET.] IMG:content-1696.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: Nightshades; the typical order of Solan a les (q. v.). Herbs or shrubs; alternate, undivided, lobed leaves; calyx five or four-parted, persistent, inferior; corolla monopetalous; the limb five or four-cleft, generally nearly regular, deciduous; stamens alternate with the segments of the corolla and as numerous; ovary two-celled, composed of one carpel to the right and the other to the left of the axis, rarely four, five, or many-seeded, with axile placente; fruit capsular, with a double dis sepiment parallel to the valves, or a berry with the placentæ adhering to the di epiment; seeds numer ous, albumen fleshy. Chiefly tropical plants, narcotic and excitant, or bitter and tonic, pungent or stimulant. ( Lindley .) Endlicher divided the order into six tribes: Nicotianeæ, Datureæ, Hyoscyamese, Solanese, Cestrineæ, Vesticæ, and made Retziacese a distinct order. Mr. Miers separates the order into two, Atropaceæ and Solanacee. Known genera sixty, species about 1,000. să-la-nā-ceo us (ce as Solanaceæ. as sh) a . [SOLANACEE.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling plants belonging to să-lā-nal, a . [SOLAN A LES.] Of or belonging to Solanum or the Solanacese; as, the Solanal Alliance. să-la-nā-lēş, s. pl . [Masc. or fem. pl. of Mod. Lat. sol anal is , from Lat. solanum (q. v.).] Bot.: The Solanal Alliance; Perigynous Exogens, with dichlamydeous, monopetalous, symmetrical flowers; axile placente, two to three-celled fruit, and a large embryo lying in a small quantity of albumen. Orders: Oleacere, Solanaceae, Asclepiadacese, Cordiaceæ, Convolvulaceæ, Cuscutaceæ, and Pole mon i aceæ. sō-land, s. [SOLAN.] să-lăn-der, s. [Fr. soul and res.] A disease in horses.