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Striate. Marked with fine parallel lines. 

 Strictus. Stiff and straight, erect. 

 Strigose. Armed with close thick bristles. 

 Strob'ilum. A cone, an ament with woody 



scales. 

 Style. That part of the pistil which is 



between the stigma and the germ. 

 Styl'ides. Plants with a very long style 

 Sua'vis. Sweet, agreeable. 

 Sub. Used as a diminutive, prefixed to 



different terms to imply the existence of 



a quality in an inferior degree ; in Eng 



lish, may be rendered by somewhat ; it 



also signifies under. 

 Subero'se. Corky. 

 Submersed. Growing under water. 

 Subter'raneous. Growing and flowering 



under ground. 

 Subtus. Beneath. 

 Sub' acute. Somewhat acute. 

 Sub'sessile. Almost sessile. 

 Sub' ul ate. Awl shaped, narrow and sharp 



pointed. See awl form. 

 Sue' culent. Juicy ; it is also applied to a 



pulpy leaf, whether juicy or not. 

 Suc'cus. Sap. 

 Sucker. A shoot from the root by which 



the plant may be propagated. 

 Suffru'ticose. Somewhat shrubby, shrubby 



at the base ; an under shrub. 

 Sul'cate. Furrowed, marked with deep 



lines. 



Super. Above. 

 Supradecom' pound. More than decom- 

 pound ; many times subdivided. 

 Superior. A calyx or corolla is superior 



when it proceeds from the upper part ol 



the germ. 



Supi'nus. Face upwards See resupinatus. 

 Suture. The line or seam formed by the 



junction of two valves of a seed vessel. 

 Syco'ne. (From sucon, a fig.) A name 



given to one of MirbePs genera, of fruits. 

 Sylvcs'tris. Growing in woods. 

 Syn'carpe. (From sun, with, and karpos 



fruit.) A union of fruits. 

 Syngene'sious. Anthers growing together 



forming a tube ; such plants as constitute 



the class Syngenesia, being also coin- 

 pound flowers. 

 Syn'oni/iiis. Synonimous, different names 



for the same plant. 

 Synop'sis. A condensed view of a subject 



or science. 



T. 



Tazon'omy. (From taxis, order, and no- 

 ttws, law.) Method of classification. 



Teeth of Mosses. The outer fringe of the 

 perifttomium is generally in 4, 8, 16, 32 

 or 64 divisions ; these are called teeth. 



TVTKX. Covering; 



Tc if 'it in rut. The skin or covering of seeds 

 often buists off on boiling, as in the pea. 



Tern' per ature. The degree of heat anc 

 cold to which any place is subject, no 

 wholly dependent upon latitude, being 

 atfected by elevation ; the mountains o 

 the torrid zone produce the plants of th 

 frigid zone. In cold regions white an< 

 blue peials are more common ; in warn 

 regions red and other vivid colours ; in 

 the spring we have more white pe- 



tals, in the autumn more yellow ones. 



Ten'dril. A filiform or thread like appen- 

 dage of some climbing plants, by which 

 they are supported by twining round 

 other objects. 



Tencl'lus. Tender, fragile. 



Tniuifo'lius. Slender leaved. 



Ten'uis. Thin and slender. 



Ter'ete. Round, cylindrical, tapering. 



Ter'minal. Extreme, situated at the end. 



Ter'nate. Three together, as the leaves of 

 the clover. 



Tctradyn 'amous. With four long and 

 two short stamens. 



Tf tran' drous. Having four stamens. 



Thorn. A sharp process from the woody 

 part of the plant ; considered as an im- 

 perfect bud indurated. 



Thread-form. See filiform. 



Thyrse. See panicle. 



Tige. See caulis. 



Tincto'rius. Plants containing colouring 

 matter. 



Tomen'tose. Downy.; covered with fine 

 matted pubescence. 



Tonic. (From tono, to strengthen.) Me- 

 dicines which increase the tone of ihe 

 muscular fibre. 



Toothed. See dentate. 



Trachea}. Names given to vessels suppos- 

 ed to be designed for receiving and dis- 

 tributing air. 



Transverse. Crosswise. , 



Trichot'omous. Three forked. 



Trifid. Three cleft. 



Trifo'liate. Three leaved, v) 



Trilo'bate. Three lobed. 



Triloc'ular. Three celled. 



Trun'cate. Having a square termination, 

 as if cut off. 



Trunk. The stem or bole of a tree. 



Tube. The lower hollow cylinder of a 

 monopetalous corolla. 



Tuber. A solid fleshy knob. 



Tuberous. Thick and fleshy, containing 

 tubers, as the potato. 



Tubular. Shaped like a tube, hollow. 



Tu'nicate. Coated with surrounding lay- 

 ers, as in the onion. 



Tur'binate. Shaped like a top, or pear. 



Twining. Ascending spirally. 



Twisted. Coiled. 



U. 



Uligino'sus. Growing in damp places. 

 Umbel. A kind of inflorescence in which 



the flower stalks diverge from one centre, 



like the sticks of an umbrella. 

 Umbelliferous. Bearing umbels. 

 Unarmed. Without thorns or prickles. 

 Un'cinate. Hooked. 

 Unctuo'sus. Greasy, oily. 

 Un'dulate. Waving, serpentine, gently 



rising and falling. 

 Unguis. A claw. 

 Unffuic'ulate. Inserted by a claw. 

 Uniflo'rus. One flowered. 

 U'nicus. Single. 



Unilat'eral. Growing on one side. 

 Urce'olate. Swelling in the middle, and 



contracted at the top in the form of a 



pitcher. 



