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Surculose: producing suckers, or shoots resembling them. 



Suspended: hanging down. Suspended ovules or seeds hang from the very 



summit of the cell which contains them; p. 122, fig. 269. 

 Sutural: belonging or relating to a suture. 



Suture: the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together; p. 117. 

 Sword-shaped: vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tapering above to a 



point ; as those of Iris, fig. 133. 



Symmetrical Flower: similar in the number of parts of each set; p. 89. 

 Syndntherous, or Syngenesious: where stamens are united by their anthers ; p. 112, 



fig. 229. 



Syncdrpous (fruit or pistil) : composed of several carpels consolidated into one. 

 System, p. 195. 

 Systematic Botany: the study of plants after their kinds ; p. 3. 



Taper-pointed: same as acuminate ; p. 60, fig. 103. 

 Tap-root : a root with a stout tapering body ; p. 32. 

 Tawny : dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 

 Taxdnomy : the part of Botany which treats of classification. 

 Te'mnen : a name for the inner seed-coat. 



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Tendril : a thread-shaped body used for climbing, p. 38 : it is either a branch, 

 as in Virginia Creeper, fig. 62 ; or a part of a leaf, as in Pea and Vetch, 

 fig. 127. 



Te"rete : long and round ; same as cylindrical, only it may taper. 



Terminal : borne at, or belonging to, the extremity or summit. 



Terminology : the part of the science which treats of technical terms ; same as 

 glossology. 



Tfrnate : in threes ; p. 66. Ternately : in a ternate way. 



Testa : the outer (and usually the harder) coat or shell of the seed ; p. 134. 



Tetra- (in words of Greek composition) : four; as, 



Tetracdccous : of four cocci or carpels. 



Tetradynamous : where a flower has six stamens, two of them shorter than the 

 other four, as in Mustard, p. 92, 112, fig. 188. 



Tetragonal: four-angled. Tetrdgynoits : with four pistils or styles ; p. 116. 



Tetrdmerous : with its parts or sets in fours. 



Tet rdndroits : with four stamens ; p. 112. 



Theca : a case ; the cells or lobes of the anther. 



Tfiorn : see spine ; p. 39. 



Thread-shaped: slender and round, or roundish like a thread ; as the filament of 

 stamens generally. 



Throat : the opening or gorge of a monopetalous corolla, &c., where the border 

 and the tube join, and a little below. 



Thyrse or Thyrsus : a compact and pyramidal panicle; p. 81. 



Tdmentose : clothed with matted woolly hairs (tomentum). 



Tongue-shaped: long, flat, but thickish, and blunt. 



Toothed: furnished with teeth or short projections of any sort on thfljmargin; 

 used especially when these are sharp, like saw-teeth, and do not point for- 

 wards ; p. 61, fig. 113. 



Top-shaped: shaped like a top, or a cone with its apex downwards. 



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