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GLOSSARY. 



Strap-shaped. See Ligulate (247) and 

 Lorate. 



Striate (-atus). Marked with fine longi- 

 tudinal lines, streaks, or diminutive 

 grooves or ridges (Strife). 



Strict (Strictus). Close or narrow and 

 upright; very straight. 



Striyillose (-osus). Minutely strigose. 



Strigose (-osus). Beset with striyce, or 

 sharp-pointed and appressed straight 

 and stiff hairs or bristles. 



Strobilaceous (-eus), Strobiliform (-or- 

 mis). Relating to or resembling a 

 Strobile. 



Strobile (Strobilus). An inflorescence 

 formed largely of imbricated scales, 

 as that of Hop and a Fir-cone; 

 303. 



Strombuliformis, Strombuliferus. Twist- 

 ed spirally into a screw shape, as the 

 legumes of the Screw-bean (Proso- 

 pis, sect. Strombocarpa) and of some 

 species of Medicago. 



Strophiole (-iola). An appendage at 

 the hilum of certain seeds; 308. 



Structural Botany, 2. 



Struma. A wen or any cushion-like 

 swelling on an organ. 



Strumose (-osus), Strumiferous (-us). 

 Furnished with a struma or goitre-like 

 swelling. 



Stupose (-osus). Tow-like; with tufts or 

 mats of long hairs. 



Style (Stylus). The usually attenuated 

 portion of a pistil or carpel between 

 the ovary and stigma; 166. 



Styliform (-ormis). Style-shaped. 



Styliferous. Style-bearing. 



Stylinus. Belonging to the style. 



Stylosus. With styles of remarkable 

 length or number, &c. 



Stylopodium. An enlargement or a disk- 

 like expansion at the base of a style, 

 as in Umbelliferse. 



Sub. In composition of Latin words in 

 terminology, denotes somewhat or 

 slightly; as, Subacute, Subcordate, that 

 is acutish, somewhat cordate, &c. 



Subclass, 327. 



Subconvolute and Subimbricaie in aestiva- 

 tion, 137. 



Suberose (-osus). Of a corky texture. 



Subyenus, 327. 



Submerged, Submersed (-us). Growing 

 under water. 



Suborder (Subordo), 327. 



Subpetiolar (-aris). Under the petiole, 

 as the leaf-buds of Platanus , 42. 



Subsection, 327. 



Subspecies. A group which is ambigu- 

 ous in rank between variety and spe- 

 cies; 320. 



Subtribe (Subtribus), 327. 



Subulate (-atus), Subuliform (-ormis). 

 Awl-shaped. 



Subvnriety, 327. 



Succise (-isus). As if cut or broken off 

 at the lower end. 



Succubous (-us). When in leaves 

 crowded on a stem the apex of eac 1 } 

 leaf is covered by the base of the 

 <next above. 



Succulent (Succosus). Juicy. 



Sucker. A shoot of subterranean ori- 

 gin; 53. 



Suffi-utesctnt (-ens). Slightly or ob- 

 scurely shrubby ; 50. 



Suff'i-utex. An undershrub. 



Sujfruticose (-osus). Low and shrubby 

 at base; 50. 



Suffultus. Underpropped or supported. 



Sulcate (-atus). Grooved or furrowed. 



Super. Above. See Supra. 



Superior, Superus. Growing or placed 

 above ; also in a lateral flower on the 

 side next the axis ; thus the poste- 

 rior or upper lip of a corolla is the 

 superior; 160, 183. 



Superposed (Superpositus). Vertically 

 over some other part. 



Superposition, 179, 195. 



Supervolute (-us), Supervolutive (-ivus). 

 Same as Convolute when applied to 

 plaits; 139. 



Supine (-inus). Lying flat with face up- 

 ward. 



Suppression. Complete abortion; 179, 

 190. 



Supra. Above; hence in Latin com- 

 pounds, Supra-axillary, above the 

 axil ; Suprafoliace<ws,tLbove a leaf, &c. 



Supradedecompound. Several times com- 

 pound. 



Surculose (-osus). Producing suckers. 



Surculus. A sucker; a shoot rising from 

 a subterranean base; 53. 



Sursum. Upward; directed upward or 

 forward. 



Suspended (Suspensus). Hanging di- 

 rectly downward; hanging from the 

 apex of a cell. 



Suspensor of the embryo, 284. 



Sutural (-alis). Relating to a suture. 



Suture (-v,ra). A junction or seam of 

 union ; used commonly as a line of 

 opening:; 260. 



Sword-shaped. A blade with two sharp 

 and nearly parallel edges, as in Iris. 



