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MINNESOTA TREES AND SHRUBS 



Stipulate With stipules 

 Strap-shaped Long and narrow in 



outline 

 Stratified Used of seeds germinated 



artificially in layers 

 Striate Marked with parallel lines 

 Stoloniferous With runners, or with 



runner-like branches 

 Style The pin-like extension of the 



pistil, bearing the stigma at its tip 

 Stylopodium A disk-like expansion 



at the base of the style, as in the 



carrot family 

 Subcordate Somewhat heart-shaped 

 Submerged Under water 

 Subsessile Nearly sessile 

 Subtend To stand below on the axis 

 Sucker A shoot arising from an un- 

 derground bud 

 Superior Applied to a part placed 



above another part 

 Sympetalous Having or consisting 



of united petals 

 Syncarpous With united carpels 



Teeth The regular projections along 

 the leaf margin 



Tendril A slender coiling holdfast 



Ternate Of three leaflets 



Terrestrial On the ground, not 

 water-dwelling 



Thorn A reduced sharp-pointed 

 branch 



Thyrse A dense much-branched flow- 

 er cluster 



Tomentum A dense layer of hairs 



Tomentose With a dense mat of 

 hairs 



Trailing Creeping along the ground 



Tribe A group of genera within the 

 family 



Trifoliate With three leaflets 

 Truncate Cut off squarely 

 Tuberous With a tuber or with large 



swollen roots 

 Tubular Like a tube 

 Tundra An arctic meadow or marsh 

 Twice-compound With two sets or 



ranks of leaflets 

 Twining Winding spirally about a 



support 

 Two-ranked In two rows 



Umbel A flower-cluster with all the 

 pedicels arising from the same point 

 Umbellate Borne in umbels 

 Unarmed Without spines, thorns, or 

 prickles 



Valve One of the portions into 

 which some dry fruits split; a 

 trapdoor-like opening in the pollen 

 chambers of some anthers 



Verticillate Three or more in a circle 



Vestigial Reduced almost to disap- 

 pearence 



Villous With long soft hairs not 

 matted together 



Webby With a tuft of slender, curly 



hairs 

 Weft A tuft of hair 

 Whorl A group of three or more 



similar organs, as leaves, radiating 



from the place of attachment 

 Whorled Borne in a whorl 

 Wing One of the two lateral petals 



of the Pea family 



Zygomorphic Applied to a flower 

 with petals of different form 



