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often sticky or othervise marked, 
Stipe, the leaf-stalk of a ferns more generally, a stalk, 
Stipules, appendages on either side of the petiole base of certain leaves 
as in the rose, 
Stolon, a basal branch rooting at the nodes; a runner as in the strawberry. 
Striate, marked with slender longitudinal lines, 
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Strict, very straight and upright, 
Strigose, hairy with stiff appressed hairs. 
Style, the usually attenuated part of a pistil which bears the stigma or 
stigmase 
Stylopodium, see fam, desc. Umbelliferae. 
Sub-, a prefix signifying inferior rank or positions; also signifying almost, 
approximately or somewhat, 
Subulate, awl-shaped, 
Succulent, fleshy and juicy. 
Suffrutescent, subshrubby or woody at the base, herbaceous above, 
Superior, said of ovaries which are wholly unattached to the calyx. 
Suture, the line along which a split occurs as in a capsule, 
Symmetrical, applied to flowers in vhich the different series have parts 
of equal number, 
Taproot, a stout vertical root as in a carrot, as contrasted with the 
numerous fibrous roots of grasses, 
Terete, columnar; circular in cross-section, 
Ternate, disposed in parts of 3 or 3 nearly equal divisions, 
Testa, sced-coate 
Throat, the orifice of a tubular flower or corolla. 
Tomentose, hairy with curled more or less matted hairs (tomentum) as in 
upholsterye 
Triternate, thrice ternate, 
Truncate, ending abruptly as though sheared off. 
