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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



the axis ou which they arc 

 crowded. 



Squdrridose : diminutive of Squarrose. 



Squash, 423. 



Squills, 493. 



Stalked : furnished with a st.ilk, stem, 

 or any lengthened support. 



Stalked <j lands, 52. 



Stalklet : a diminutive or secondary 

 stalk. 



Stamen : the fertilizing organ of a flow- 

 er, 223. 



Stdminate, or stamineal: relating to the 

 stamens. A staminate flower has 

 no pistils, 261. 



Staminijerous : bearing stamens. 



Staminodium : an altered and sterile sta- 

 men, or a body occupying the place 

 of a stamen. 



Standard: the posterior petal of a pa- 

 pilionaceous corolla, 253. 



StaphylcacecB, 409. 



Star-apple, 443. 



Starch, 54, 193. 



Staticcai, 445. 



Station : the locality or kind of situa- 

 tion in which a plant naturally 

 grows. 



StellatJB, 432. 



Stellate : staiTv, star-shaped ; arranged 

 in rays, like the points of a star. 



Stellate ftuirs, 52. 



Steilulate : diminutive of Stellate. 



Stem, 91. 



Stemless : having no obvious stem, 91. 



Stemlet : a diminutive stem ; the first 

 internode of the plumule. 



SterculiaceiB, 399. 



Sterigma : the adherent base or down- 

 ward prolongation of a decurrent 

 leaf 



Sterile: ban-en. 



Sterile flower : one having no pistils, 

 261. 



Sterile stamens or filaments : those des- 

 titute of anthers, or with the anther 

 im}>ei-fect, 281. 



Stigma : the part of a pistil which re- 

 ceives the pollen, 223, 287. 



Stigmdiic, or stigmatose : relating to or 

 bearing the stigma. 



Stings, stinging hairs, 52. 



Stipe (stipes) : a stalk of an ovary (267), 

 of a Muslu-oom (507), and the 

 leaf-stalk of a Fern. 



Stipel : the stipule of a leaflet ; 171, fig. 

 286. 



Stipellate: furnished with stipels, 171. 



Stipitate: having a stipe, 267. 



Stipitiform : shaped like a stipe. 



Stipuldceous, stiptdar : belonging to or 

 resembling stipules. 



Stipulate, stipuled: possessing stipules, 



171. 

 Stipule: an accessory part of a leaf, 



one on each side of the base, 145, 



170. 

 Stock, 355. 



Stole, stolon : a rooting branch, 102. 

 Stoloniferous : bearing stolons. 

 Stoma (plural stdmata), stomate : a 



breatliing-pore, 52, 1 50. 

 Stomatiferous : bearing stomates. 

 Stone : the endocarp of a drupe. 

 Stone-fruit, 312. 

 Stool : the plant from which layers arc 



propagated. 

 Storax, 425, 442. 

 Stramineous : straw-like. 

 Strangulated: irregularly contracted. 

 Strap-shaped: see Ligulate. 

 Stratum : a layer. 

 Strawberry, 416. 

 Striate : marked with longitudinal 



streaks or furrows {strife). 

 Strict : very straiglit or close, or very 



upright. 

 Strigillose : same as Strigose. 

 Stiigose : clothed with sharp and stout 



close-pressed hairs or scale-like 



bristles (strigce). 

 Strohildceous : relating to, or resem- 

 bling a 

 Strdbile : the cone of a Pine, &c., 319. 

 Strohilifi:rous : bearing sti-obiles. 

 Stromhuliferous : sjnrally twisted, like a 



corkscrew or a strombus. 

 Strdphiole: same as a Caruncle, 322. 

 Structural Botany, 14. 

 Strumose : swollen on one side, bearing 



a struma or wen. 

 Strychnine, 57, 434. 

 Stupose: tow-like. 

 Style : a columnar or slender part of the 



pistil above the ovary, 223, 287. 

 Styliferous : style-bearing. 

 Styliform : style-shaped. 

 Stylopddium : an enlargement or fleshy 



disk at the base of a style, as in 



Umbelliferffi. 

 Styrace£E, 442. 

 Sub-, as a prefix, means somewhat, or 



slightly ; as 

 Subacute : somewhat acute. 

 Subclass, 362. 



Sahcordate ; slightly heart-shaped, &c. 

 Siiberose: of a corky texture. 

 Subgenus, 361, 362. 

 Submerged : growing under water. 

 Suborder, 361. 



Subspecies : a marked variety. 

 Subtribe, 361. 



Subterranean : growing beneath the sur- 

 face of the gi'ound. 



