650 BOTANY OF CROP PLANTS 



Standard. — The large petal in the flowers of Leguminosae. 



Sterile. — Unproductive; without the reproductive elements. 



Slipitate. — Provided with a stalk or stipe. 



Stipules.- — Appendages at the base of the petiole. 



Stipulate. — Bearing stipules. 



Stolon.— A trailing stem, above ground, that easily takes root at the nodes 

 when it touches the ground. 



Stooling. — Production of secondary branches from lowermost nodes, as in 

 grasses; tillering. 



Strobile. — Spike-like pistillate inflorescence of hop; also cone-like group of 

 sporophylls. 



Stylar. — Of or pertaining to style. 



Stylopodium. — Style-foot. The nectariferous gland at the base of the style 

 in the Umbelliferous fruit. 



Suh. — Prefix signifying below, under, or almost, less than normal, in an 

 inferior degree. 



Subtend. — To grow under, or be adjacent to, as a bract subtending a flower. 



Subulate. — Awl-shaped. 



Sucker. — Rapidly growing shoots from roots or from stems underground. 



Superior (flower). — Ovary appearing above the other parts of the flower. 



Sympetaly. — Petals united. 



Suture.— A line of splitting. 



Sympetalous. — With the petals united to form a tube. 



Syncarpy. — Condition in which the carpels are united. 



Synconium. — Fleshy fruit, in which the receptacle is hollow, and its inner 

 wall is lined with numerous flowers. 



Syngenesiou'; .—^'ith. the anthers united, as in Compositas. 



Tassel. — Staminate inflorescence in corn. 



Tendril. — Slender, coiled organ used in climbing. 



Terete. — Cylindrical; pencil-shaped. 



Ternate. — Arranged in threes or divided into three divisions. 



Testa. — Seed coat. 



Tillering. — Production of branches from the lowermost nodes, as in grasses. 



Tomentose.— Covered with dense wool-like hair. 



Tomentum. — Dense, woolly hair. 



Torus. — Receptacle of a flower: 



Translucent. — Partially transparent. 



Trifoliate. — With three leaflets, as in clover. 



Truncate. — As if cut off squarely at the tip. 



Tuberculate. — Furnished with tubercles or small projections. 



Tuberous. — Swollen and tuber-like. 



Tubular. — Tube-shaped. 



Turbinate. — Top-shaped. 



