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GLOSSARY. 



Stellate-pubescent. With star-shaped 



hairs. 

 Sterile. Incapable of producing; as 



a flower without a pistil or a 



stamen without an anther. 

 Stipel. A stipule-like organ at the 



base of a leaflet. 

 Stipitate. With a stalk. 

 Stolon. A runner or a basal branch 



that tends to strike root. 

 Stoloniferous. Having stolons. 

 Striate. Marked with longitudinal 



lines or ridges. 

 Strigose. Covered with short stiff 



straight appressed hairs. 

 Strophiole. An appendage near the 



hilum on certain seeds. 

 Stylopodium. A disk-like expansion 



at the base of the style (Umbel- 

 lifer ae). 

 Suffrutescent. Slightly or obscurely 



shrubby. 



Sub- Somewhat or slightly. 

 Subulate. Awl-shaped. 

 Succulent. Juicy; fleshy. 

 Supra-axillary. Produced not in but 



above the leaf-axils. 

 Suture. The line of dehiscence. 

 Syngenesious. Stamens with united 



anthers but separate filaments. 



Tawny. Dull yellowish brown. 



Terete. Cylindrical or nearly so; not 

 compressed. 



Ternate. In threes. 



Tetradynamous. With four long and 

 two short stamens. 



Thallus. A plant body not differ- 

 entiated into root stem and leaf. 



Thyrsoid. Resembling a thyrsus. _ 



Thyrsus. A contracted cylindrical 

 ovoid and usually compact panicle. 



Torulose. Cylindrical with contrac- 

 tions at intervals. 



Tridentate. Having three teeth. 



Truncate. Endling abruptly as if cut 

 off squarely. 



Tuberiferous. Bearing tubers. 



Turbinate. Top-shaped ; inversely 

 conical. 



Turgid. Swollen; distended by pres- 

 sure from within. 



Umbellate. In umbels or like an 

 umbel. 



Unisexual. Having but one sex; in 

 flowering plants with either but 

 not both stamens or pistils. 



Utricle. A small bladder-like one- 

 seeded fruit. 



Vascular. Having woody bundles. 



Velum. The membrane partly cover- 

 ing the sporangium in the leaf of 

 Isoetes. 



Ventral. Belonging to the anterior 

 or inner face of an organ; the 

 opposite of dorsal. 



Villous. With numerous long and 

 soft hairs. 



Virgate. Wand-shaped; slender, 

 straight, erect. 



Viscid. Glutinous, sticky. 



Whorl. Leaves or other parts ar- 

 ranged in a circle of three or more 

 at the same node. 



Zygomorphic. Bilaterally symmet- 

 rical; that is, capable of being 

 divided symmetrically in but one 

 plane. 



