Stoloniferous. Bearing stolons, as in the strawberry. 



Stramineous. Straw-colored. 



Striate. Marked with fine parallel lines (fig. 292). 



Strict. Erect and straight. 



Strigose. Characterized by stiff, often appressed hairs, these usually pointing in 

 one direction (figs. 416, 785). 



Strobilus, strobile. Conelike aggregation of sporophylls. Strobilaceous: relating to 

 or resembling a cone. 



Strophiolate. Said of seeds having a strophiole. 



Strophiole. An appendage at the hilum of some seeds. 



Style. A short or long, simple or branched stalk arising from the ovary and bear- 

 ing the stigma or stigmas; the part of the pistil which connects ovary and 

 stigma (figs. 3a, 3b). 



Stylopodium. An outgrowth from the base of the style and covering the top of 

 the ovary, as in the Umbelliferae (fig. 574). 



Subacute. Between acute and obtuse. 



Subcoriaceous. Somewhat leathery. 



Submerged, submersed. Growing under water. 



Subulate. Shaped like an awl or prong (fig. 787). 



Succulent. Fleshy; composed of soft, watery tissue. 



Suffrutescent. Woody, at least at the base, said of a subshrub. 



Suffruticose. Woody at base and definitely herbaceous above. 



Sulcate. Bearing grooves. 



Superior. Wholly above and not adnate to other organs, as a surperior ovary (fig. 

 3a). 



Surficial. Of or pertaining to a surface, as the face of umbelliferous seeds. 



Suture. A groove marking the line along which a structure opens; any lengthwise 

 groove that forms a junction between two parts. 



Swale. A moist meadowy area lower than the surrounding areas. 



Symmetrical. Possessing one or more planes of symmetry (i.e., planes which di- 

 vide the object into mirror-image halves). 



Sympetalous. A corolla in which the petals are united. 



Syn-. Greek prefix meaning united; adhesion or growing together. 



Syncarpous. Having the carpels fused to form a compound pistil. 



Synsepalous. Having the sepals united. 



Taproot. A single, main primary root bearing small lateral roots (fig. 789). 



Tawny. Of the color of natural leather, light-brown with a dull reddish or yellow- 

 ish hue. 



Taxon. A concept of a class of organisms at any categorical level that is predi- 

 cated on the similarity of the constituents to one another with respect to a set 

 of properties taken as the defining type of the class. 



Tendril. A modified stem, leaf, or part of a leaf, in a climbing plant, that twines 

 around an object and thus supports the plant. 



Tepal. Used in the plural for sepals and petals of similar form and not readily 

 differentiated, as in Amaryllidaceae. 



Terete. Cylindrical or tapering and circular in cross section, as said of the stem 

 of a plant. 



Ternate. Thrice-forked, -branched, or -divided. 



Tessellate. Having a checkerboard appearance or pattern. 



Thallus. A flat leaflike organ; used sometimes for entire plant in Lemnaceae. 



Throat. The usually expanded part of the corolla tube immediately below the 

 lobes. 



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