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Stellate; star-like; where several similar parts 
spread out from a common eenter, like a 
star. 
Stem; the main ascending axis of a plant. 
‘Stemless; without, or apparently without, a 
stem. 
Sterile; barren or imperfect. 
Stigma; the part of the pistil which receives 
the pollen. 
Stigmatic; belonging to the stigma. 
Stipe; the stalk of a fern. 
Stipel; a stipule of a leaflet. 
Stipellate; furnished with stipels. 
Stipitate; furnished with a stipe. 
Stipulate; furnished with stipules. 
Stipules; the appendages, on each side of the 
base of certain leaves. 
Stoloniferous; producing stolons; that is, re- 
clining and rooting stems. 
Strap-shaped; long, flat, and narrow. 
Striate; marked with slender longitudinal 
grooves. 
Strict; straight and narrow. 
Strigose; covered with appressed bristles. 
* Style; a stalk between ovary and stigma. 
Sub-; as a prefix, about, nearly, somewhat, as 
subcordate, somewhat cordate, etc. 
Subulate; awn-shaped, tapering to a sharp 
point. 
Succulent; juicy. 
Suffrutescent; slightly shrubby or woody. 
Sulcate; grooved with deep furrows. 
Superior; above; the ovary is said to be 
superior when a!l the floral envelopes are 
inserted below it. 
Suture; the line of junction of contiguous parts 
grown together. 
Symbiosis; dissimilar 
gether. 
Sympetalous; same as gamopetalous. 
Syncarpous; composed of several carpels con- 
solidated into one. 
organisms living  to- 
Tail; any long and slender prolongation of an 
organ. 
Teeth; small marginal lobes. 
Tendril; a slender, usually coiled, organ used 
for climbing. 
Terete; long and round. 
Terminal; borne at, or belonging to, the ex- 
tremity or summit. 
Ternate; in threes. 
Tetragonal; four-angled. 
Tetramerous; with its parts or sets in fours. 
Throat; the opening of a monopetalous corolla, 
where the border and the tube join. 
Tomentose; clothed with matted woolly hairs. 
Toothed; furnished with teeth or short pro- 
jections of any sort on the margin. 
Top-shaped; shaped like a top, or a cone with 
the apex downward. 
Torus; the receptacle of the flower. 
Trailing; prostrate but not rooting. 
Transverse; across. 


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Tree; a woody plant exceeding 5 to 6 m in 
height, with a distinct trunk. 
Trichotomus; three-forked. 
Tridentate; three-toothed. 
Trifid; three-cleft. 
Trifoliolate; of three leaflets. 
Trifurcate; three-forked. : 
Trigonous; three-angled, or triangular. 
Trilobed; three-lobed. 
Trilocular; three-celled. 
Trimerous; with its parts in threes. 
Tripinnate; thrice pinnate. 
Triquetrous; sharply three-angled. 
Trumpet-shaped; tubular, enlarged at or to- 
ward the summit. 
Truncate; as if cut off at the top. 
Tube; any hollow, cylindric body. 
Tuber; a thickened portion of a subterranean 
stem or branch, provided with buds. on 
the sides. 
Tubercle; a small excrescence. 
Tuberous; resembling a tuber. 
Tubular; hollow and elongated. 
Turbinate; top-shaped. 
Twining; ascending by coiling around a sup- 
port. 
Umbel; the umbrella-like form of inflorescence. 
Umbellate; in umbels. 
Unarmed; destitute of spines, prickles, etc. 
Uncinate; hook-shaped. 
Undershrub; a very low shrub. 
Undulate; wavy-margined. 
Unequally pinnate; pinnate with an odd num- 
ber of leaflets. 
Unguiculate; furnished with a claw. 
Unifoliolate; with one leaflet. 
Unilateral; one-sided. 
Unilocular; one-celled. 
Unisexual; having stamens or pistils only. 
Urceolate; urn-shaped. * : 
Utricle; a small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit. 
Utricular; like a small bladder. 
Vaginate; surrounded by a sheath. 
Valve; one of the parts into which a dehiscent 
pod splits. : 
Valvate; the arrangements of petals, sepals, 
ete., when their margins touch but do not 
overlap. 
Variegated; blotched or marked with various 
colors. 
Veins; the small ribs or branches of the frame- 
work of leaves. 
Veined; furnished with evident veins. 
Veinless; destitute of veins. ~ 
Veinlets; the smaller branches of veins. 
Venation; the veining of leaves. 
Ventral; belonging to the lower or inner side 
of any organ, the opposite of dorsal. 
Ventricose; inflated or swelled out on one side. 
Verrucose; covered with small projections like 
little warts. = 
Versatile; attached by one point, so that it 
may swing to. and fro. 
