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GLOSSARY 



Stipules. The appendages on each side of 

 the base of certain leaves. 



Stolon. Trailing or reclined and rooting 

 shoots. 



Stoloniferous. Producing stolons. 



Strap-shaped. Long, flat, and narrow. 



Striate, Striated. Marked with slender 

 longitudinal grooves or channels. 



Strict. Close and narrow; straight and nar- 

 row. 



Strigose, Strigillose. Beset with appressed, 

 rigid bristles or hairs. 



Strobilus. Cone; a multiple fruit in the 

 form of a cone or head, as in hop and pine; 

 sometimes written strobile. 



Strophiole. Same as caruncle. 



Style. The beak-like prolongation of the 

 pistil above the ovary, which bears the 

 stigma. 



Stylopodium. An enlargement at the base 

 of the style, found in Umbelliferae and 

 some other plants. 



Sub-, as a prefix, means about, nearly, 

 somewhat; as subcordate, slightly cordate; 

 subserrate, slightly serrate; subaxillary, 

 just beneath the axil, etc. 



Subulate. Awl-shaped; tapering from a 

 broadish or thickish base to a sharp point. 



Succulent. Juicy or pulpy. 



Sucker. A shoot from subterranean 

 branches. 



Suffrutescent. Slightly shrubby or woody 

 at the base only. 



Sulcate. Grooved longitudinally. 



Surculose. Producing suckers, or shoots re- 

 sembling them. 



Suture. The line of junction of contigu- 

 ous parts that seem to have grown to- 

 gether. 



Sympetalous. With united petals. 



Syngenesious. With stamens united by their 

 anthers. 



Taproot. A stout vertical root which con- 

 tinues the main axis of the plant. 



Tawny. Dull yellowish, with a tinge of 

 brown. 



Tendril. A thread-shaped process used for 

 climbing. 



Terete. Same as cylindrical, only it may 

 include tapering. 



Ternate. In threes, as in leaf-divisions. 



Tetra-, in compounds, means four. 



Tetradynamous. With four stamens longer 

 than the other two. 



Thorn. See spine. 



Throat. The orifice of a gamopetalous co- 

 rolla or calyx; the region between the 

 tube proper and the limb. 



Thyrse, Thyrsus. A compact and pyrami- 

 dal panicle. 



Tomentose. Clothed with matted woolly 

 hairs (tomentum). 



Toothed. Furnished with teeth or short 

 projections of any sort on the margin; 

 used especially when these are sharp, 

 like saw-teeth, and do not point forwards. 



T arose, Torulose. Knobby; where a cy- 

 lindrical body is swollen at intervals. 



Torus. The receptacle of the flower. 



Tri-, in compounds, means three. 



Trichotomous . Three-forked. 



Trifid. Three-cleft. 



Trigonous. Three-angled. 



Triquetrous. Sharply three-angled; and es- 

 pecially with the sides concave, like a 

 bayonet. 



Truncate. Ending abruptly, as if cut off 

 transversely. 



Tuber. A thickened portion of a subter- 

 ranean stem or branch. 



Tubercle. A small excrescence. 



Tubercled, Tuberculate. Bearing excres- 

 cences or pimples. 



Tuberous. Resembling a tuber. 



Tumid. Swollen; somewhat inflated. 



Tunicate. Coated; invested with layers, as 

 an onion. 



Turbinate. Top-shaped. 



Turgid. Swollen; thick as if swollen. 



Turio (plural turiones). A young shoot or 

 sucker springing out of the ground. 



Twining. Ascending by coiling round a 

 support, like the hop. 



Umbel. The umbrella-like form of inflo- 

 rescence. 



Umbellate. In umbels. 



Umbellet. A secondary or partial umbel. 



Unarmed. Destitute of spines, prickles, 

 and the like. 



Uncinate. Hook-shaped; hooked at the end. 



Undulate. Wavy, or wavy-margined. 



Unequally pinnate. Pinnate with an odd 

 number of leaflets. 



Unguiculate. Furnished with a claw (a 

 narrow base). 



Uni-, in compounds, means one. 



Unisexual. Having only one kind of sex- 

 organs; applied also to flowers having 

 only stamens or pistils. 



Urceolate. Urn-shaped. 



Utricle. A small, thin-walled, one-seeded 

 fruit. 



Utricular. Like a small bladder. 



Vaginate. Surrounded by a sheath. 



Valvate. Opening by valves, as a capsule; 

 in aestivation, meeting by the edges with- 

 out overlapping. 



Valve. One of the pieces into which a 

 dehiscent pod, or any similar body, splits. 



Veinlets. The smaller ramifications of veins. 



Veins. The fibrovascular strands in a leaf 

 or other organ. 



Venation. The veining of leaves, etc. 



