GLOSSARY 319 



Sub. In composition signifies somewhat or nearly. 



SuBER (suber = cork). Vide Corky. Note Pinus Sylvestris 



or Scots Pine. 

 SuB-SESSiLE. Vide Sessile. 

 Sylvestris (silva = a wood). That grows in a wood. Note 



Pinus Sylvestris or Scots Pine. 

 Syn. In composition = with a growing together. 

 Tabuliform (tabula = a table). In the form of a table, like 



the boaghs of a cedar tree. 

 Terete (terere = to rub smooth). In shape like a lead pencil. 

 Tern ATE (terni = threefold). Growing in threes or whorls 



of three. Applied to the Pines that have 3 leaves in a 



bundle. 

 Testa (testa = the shell or covering of a testaceous animal). 



Hence the skin of a seed. 

 Tetragonal (Gk. tetra = four; gonia = angle). Applied to 



the shape of branchlets or twigs. 

 ToMENTOSE (tomentum = stuffing for cushions). Vide 



Pubescence, Downy, but the Tomentose character is 



more associated with an interwoven and matted covering 



of hairs on the shoots. 

 Toothed. Synonym : Dentate. Vide Margin. 

 Tree. A woody perennial plant with a trunk. 

 Tri (tri =3). In compound words three. 

 Tripinnate. Three times pinnate. When the leaflets of a 



Bipinnate leaf become themselves pinnate. Vide 



Pinnate, Bipinnate. 

 Triquetral. Three-sided or three-angled. 

 Truncate (truncare = to lop off). Cut off at the top. 

 TuBERCULATA (tuber — a projecting substance, a protuberance 



or excrescence). Pinus Tuberculata so-called because 



of its cones growing imbedded in trunk and causing 



excrescences. 

 Umbel (umbella = diminutive of " umbra," shade). An 



inflorescence which has no common footstalk (or so-called 



Rachis) like a Corymb, but has flower-stalks (or so-called 



Pedicels) of nearly equal length and radiating from one 



centre or stalk. 

 Umbo (umbo = a projection or boss on a shield). The en- 

 largement on certain cone scales. Vide Boss. 



