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Spreading. Widely divergent ; nearly prostate. 

 Spur. A tube-like projection from part of a blossom. 

 Squarrose. Strongly spreading and projecting. 

 Stamen. The male sexual organ in a plant. 

 Staminodium. A sterile stamen. 

 Standard. The upper petal of a pea corolla. 

 Stellate. Star-like. 

 Sterile. Unproductive. 

 Stigma. The uppermost portion of the pistil. 

 Stipe. A stalk. 

 Stipitate. Possessing a stipe. 

 Stipulate. Having stipules. 



Stipule. Appendages to a leaf at the base of the petiole. 

 Stolon. A weak basal branch disposed to root. 

 Stoloniferous. Producing stolons. 

 Striate. Finely lined or ribbed longitudinally. 

 Strict. Very straight and erect. 



Strigose. Beset with more or less appressed straight hairs. 

 Style. The slender portion of the pistil between the ovary and stigma. 

 Stylopodium. An enlargement at the base of the style. 

 Sub-. A prefix meaning somewhat or slightly. 

 Subulate. Awl-shaped. 

 Succulent. Juicy and fleshy. 

 Superior. Above the surrounding organs. 

 Suture. The line of opening. 



Symmetrical. Applied to a flower having the same number of parts in each 

 circle. 



Terete. Circular in cross-section. 



Ternate. In threes. 



Tetradynamous. Having four of the six stamens longer than the other two. 



Thallus. A flat vegetative organ. 



Tbroat. That portion of a gamopetalous corolla or gamosepalous calyx 



between the tube and the limb. 

 Thyrse. A compact panicle. 

 Thyrsoid. Resembling a thyrse. 

 Tomentose. Covered with densely matted hairs. 

 Tooth. A small marginal lobe. 

 Torose. Cylindrical, and contracted at intervals. 

 Torulose. Diminutive of torose. 

 Tri-. In composition, three. 

 Trlandrous. Having three stamens. 

 Truncate. Ending abruptly in a straight edge. 

 Tuber. A short, thick underground branch. 

 Tuberiferous. Tuber-bearing. 

 Tubercle. The persistent style base in some sedges. 

 Tuberculate. Bearing short, hard, rounded projections. 

 Turbinate. Inversely conical. 

 Umbel. An inflorescence in which the flower pedicels spring from the same 



point, and the outer flowers bloom last. 

 Umbellate. Umbel-like. 



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