222 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Squamellate, or Squnmulose, furnished with little scales (Squamtlke, 



Squcuniform, shaped like a scale. 



Squiirruft, where scales, leaves, or any appendages spread widely from the axis on 



which they are thickly set. 



Squarrulose, diminutive of squarrose ; slightly squarrose. 

 Stachys, Greek for spike. 



Stalk, the stem, petiole, peduncle, &c., as the case may be. 

 Stamen, 14, 80, 08. 



Staminate, furnished with stamens, 86. Stamineal, relating to the stamens. 

 Staminodiuin, an abortive stamen, or other body in place of a stamen. 

 Standard, the upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla, 92. 

 Starch, 130, 103. 



Station, the particular kind of situation in which a plant naturally occurs. 

 Stellate, Stellular, starry or star-like; where several similar parts spread out from 



a common centre, like a star. 

 Stem, 39. Stemlet, diminutive stem. 

 Stemless, destitute or apparently destitute of stem. 

 Stenos, Greek for narrow ; hence Stenopliyllous, narrow-leaved, &c. 

 Sterile, barren or imperfect. 



Stigma, the part of the pistil which receives the pollen, 14, 80, 105. 

 Stiymatic, or StigoMtose, belonging to the stigma. 

 Stipe (Latin Stipes), the stalk of a pistil, &c., when it has any, 112; also of a Fern, 



158, and of a Mushroom, 172. 

 Stipel, a stipule of a leaflet, as of the Bean, &c. 

 Slipellate, furnished with stipels, as in the Bean tribe. 

 Stipitate, furnished with a stipe. 



Stipulnceous, belonging to stipules. Stipulate, furnished with stipules. 

 Stipules, the appendages one each side of the base of certain leaves, 66. 

 Stirps (plural, stirpes), Latin for race. 

 Stuck, used for race or source. Also for any root-like base from which the herb 



grows up. 



Stole, or Stolon, a trailing or reclined and rooting shoot, 40. 

 Stoloniferovs, producing stolons. 



Stomate (Latin Stoma, plural Stomata), the breathing-pores of leaves, 144. 

 Stone-fruit, 119. 

 Storage-leaves, C2. 



Stramineous, straw-like, or straw-colored. 

 Strap-shaped, long, flat, and narrow. 



S/rinte, or Strinl, >/, marked with slender longitudinal grooves or stripes. 

 Strict, close and narrow; straight and narrow. 



Mrii/illose, Strif/ose, beset with stout and appressed, stiff or rigid bristles. 

 Strobilaceous, relating to or resembling a 

 Strobile, a multiple fruit in the form of a cone or head, 124. 

 Strombuliform, twisted, like a spiral shell. 



Striiphwle, same as c,irinn-Ic, l.'ii. Strophiolate, furnished with a strophiole. 

 Strnina, a wen ; a swelling or protuberance of any organ. 

 Strumose, bearing a struma. 

 t< I a post, like tmv. 



c, a stalk between ovary and stigma, 14, 80, 105. 

 US, /;/iW, bearing styles or con-pienous ones. 

 /H//i, an epigynous disk, or an enlargement at the base of the style. 

 Sub-, as a prefix, about, nearly, somewhat; a- >V,r,.,-,/,, t, . slightly cordate; Subser- 



nitr, slightly serrate; Xit?>n.rillary, just beneath the axil, &c. 

 Subclass, Subordi-r, i>n/>lril>e, 178. 

 Suberose, corky or cork-like in texture. 



Rubulnte, awl-shaped: tajiering from a broadish or thickish base to a sharp point. 

 Sucrise, as if cut off at lower end. 

 Succuboits, when crowded leaves are each covered by base of next above. 





