Schæfferia (she feria)

[NL. (Jacquin, 1780), named after J. C. Schaeffer (1718-90), German naturalist.] A genus of polypetalous plants, of the order Cel as trineæ, tribe Celastreæ, and subtribe Elæodendreæ. It is characterized by diœcio us flowers with four imbricated and orbicular sepals, four petals, four stamens, a two-celled ovary, and a two-cleft stigma. The fruit is a dry drupe with two seeds which are without an aril. The 3 species are natives of the West Indies, Florida, Texas, and Mexico. They are smooth and rigid shrubs, with small coriaceous entire and obovate leaves, and small green or white flowers nearly or quite se ile in the axils. S. frutescens, tree of southern Florida the neighboring Few are the slender flower lets, scentle , pale, That on their ice-clad stems all trembling blow Along the margin of the unmelting snow. O. W. Holmes , Nearing the Snow-Line. 2. Destructive of scent; conveying no scent, as for hunting: said of the weather. That dry scentle cycle of days. The Field , April 4, 1885. ( Encyc . Dict .) scent-organ (sent'organ), n. In zoöl ., a scentbag or scent-gland. The term is applied especially to odoriferous vesicles at the end of the abdomen of many insects, to extensile vesicles on the backs of certain and to organs in the thorax of other insects having minute external orifices called scent -pores at the sides of the meta sternum, near the hind coxæ, as in certain longicorn beetles. These organs are also called osmeteria . See re pugnatorial , and cut under osmeterium . IMG:content-0271.png:[blocks in formation] and hardne is known by the names of yellow - wood and boxwood.