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GLOSSARY. 



Revolute, rolled backward. 



PcAcnis, the main stem in a spike, etc. 



RooTSTOCK, an underground stem. 



Rotate, wheel-sliaped. 



RuNCiKATE, teeth pointing backward. 



Sagittate, like an arrow-head. 

 Salver-siiaped, tubular, the border spread- 

 ing at right angles to the tube. 



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Scape, a flower-stalk rising from the ground 



or near it. 

 ScoEPioiD, coiled round like a scorpion. 

 Secuxd, all turned to one side. 

 Serrate, with teeth like a saw. 

 Setaceous, like a bristle. 

 Spatulate, like a druggist's sjjatula. 

 Spike, a long inflorescenceof sessile flowers. 

 Stellate, star-shaped. 

 Stig:ma, the part of a pistil which receives 



the pollen. 

 Stipe, the stalk of an ovary. 

 Stipel, the stipule of a leaflet. 

 Stipellate, having stipels. 

 Stipitate, having a stipe. 



Stipule, appendage on each side at the 



base of a leaf. 

 Strict, very straight or close or upright. 

 Strigose, clothed with close-pressed stout 



sharp hairs or scale-like bristles. 

 Style, the slender part of a pistil. 

 Subulate, tapering to a sharp rigid point. 

 Suffrutescent, or suffruticose, shrubby at 



the base. 



Terete, cylindrical, long and round. 

 Terminal, at the end or summit. 

 Thyrse, a thick panicle (Lilac blossoms). 

 ToMENTOSE, clothed with a close and mat- 

 ted down. 

 ToRULOSE, swollen at intervals. 

 Truncate, as if cut off at the end. 



Umbel, umbrella-like inflorescence. 



Verticillate, whorled, forming a ring 



around the stem. 

 Villous, with long soft hairs. 

 Viscid, sticky. 



