Fig. 537. GARDEN VARIETY OF PEA, showing 
stipules. 
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OF HORTICULTURE. 505 
 STIPELLATE. Furnished with stipels. 
STIPELS. Small bodies, like diminutive stipules, 
situated at the base of each leaflet in certain compound- 
leaved plants (e.g., Phaseolus), but solitary, except that 
there are two at the base of the terminal leaflet. Leaflets 
in such leaves are said to be “stipellate.’ In some 
plants, e.g., Erythrina (see Fig. 536), Stipels are replaced 
by small, glandular bodies, 
Stipules resembling 
flets in appearance and in use. 
Fig. 538. FLOWERS, LEAF, AND LEAFLET-LIKE STIPULES OF 
LOTU 
S JACOBÆUS. 
STIPITATE. Having a stipe, or stalk, which is 
neither a petiole nor a peduncle. 
STIPITIFORM. Stalk-like; shaped like a stipe. 
CEOUS, STIPULAR. Belonging to 
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STIPULATE. Possessing stipules. 
STIPULES (from stipula, an upright leaf). Bodies, 
almost always two in number, and quite alike, situated 
one at each side of the base of each leaf, in many flower- 
ing plants, and in one or two Ferns. Stipules vary much 
in appearance and size; but the two sides of each are 
unlike one another, They often resemble leaflets, e.g., in 
Pea (see Fig. 537), and in Lotus (see Fig. 538), and are 
free from everything but the stem. In these cases, 
they do the work of leaflets; and they may even wholly 
replace the leaves in their action on gases, the leaves 
serving other uses—e.g., tendrils in Lathyrus Aphaca (a 
Fig. 539. ROSE-LEAF, showing Adnate Stipules, 
British weed), In many plants, e.g., Rose (see Fig. 539), 
the Stipules are small, and are fixed along each side of 
the base of the leafstalk (this arrangement is called 
“ adnate”); in others, they resemble bud-scales, and serve 
the same purpose as the latter organs, protecting the 
! form a single 
NCHLET OF FAGUS SYLVATICUS, showing Stipules 
Fic. 540. BRA ving Bad i 
tender structures in buds, e.g., Beech (see Fig. 540), Oak. 
In a few plants, Stipules of each pair are united, and 
body, opposite the leaf (Platanus), or 
between it and the stem (Potamogeton), or form a sheath 
or “ochrea” around the stem (Polygonum and Rumez). 
| In the genus Galium, they are so like the true leaves 
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that the latter are distinguished only by having the buds 
in their axils; and the Stipules and leaves together re- 
semble a whorl of true leaves. Frequently, Stipules 
| are so small as to be readily overlooked; and in a good 
many plants they fall off early, and may thus not be 
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