INDEX 787 
Star Anise, 516 Stems, decumbent, 187 
Star Apple Family, 581 duration of, 187 
Starch, 75 elongation of, 187 
assimilation, 76 endogenous, 193, 194 
Barley, 78, 81 erect, 186 
Bean, 80, 82 
Buckwheat, 81 
Canna, 82 
Cassava, 80, 81 
characteristics of commercial kinds, 
79-82 
compound grains, 77 
Corn, 79, 80 
corrosion, 102 
fill, 77 
formation of, 64 
Maranta, 78, 79 
Pea, 80, 82 
Potato, 78, 79 
reserve, 76, 77 
Rice, 79, 80 
Rye, 78, 79 
Sago, 78, 82, 456 
simple grains, 77 
structure and composition of, 77 
transitory, 76 
Wheat, 78, 79 
exceptional types of dicotyl, 203 
exfoliating, 187 
exogenous, 193 
flexuous, 188 
forms of, 187 
fruticose, 190 
herbaceous, 130, 189 
histology of aconite, 130 
of annual dicotyl, 194 
of herbaceous dicotyledon, 9, 
130, 203 
of herbaceous monocotyl, 215 
of perennial dicotyl, 199 
of woody monocotyl, 217 
obconical, 188 
perennial, 187 
phylloid, 188 
procumbent, 186 
quadrangular, 187 
reclining, 186 
repent, 187 
scandent, 188 
Steckbeck, 36 shrubby, 190 
Stegmata, 91 size of, 186 
Stele, 144 spiny, 188 
Stem, defined, 186 subcylindrical, 187 
direction of growth, 186 
distinction from root, 160 
elongation, 187 
functions, 6, 186 
generative tissues of, 187 
modification of, 188 
Sunflower, 194 
Stemonitis fusca, 375. 
Stems, above-ground, 188 
aerial, 188 
aerial-tuberous, 188 
alate, 187 
annual, 187 
ascending, 186 
cactoid, 188 
climbing, 188 
compressed, 187 
cylindraceous, 187 
subterranean, 192 
subterranean tuberous, 188 
suffruticose, 189 
tendriliform, 188 
terete, 187 
tortuous, 188 
triquetrous, 187 
truncate, 188 
twining, 188 
underground, 192 
Sterculiacea, 557 
Sterigmata, 390, 397 
Sterigmatocystis, 391 
Stevens, 104 
Sticta, 414 
Stigma, 290, 473 
Stillingia, 551 
Stillingia sylvatica, 551 
