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Glossary 



silicle, a short silique. 



siliquc, capsule of the mustard family. 



sinuate, with margins alternately 

 bowed inward and outward. 



sinus, the angle between two lobes. 



smooth, not rough, or same as gla- 

 brous. 



sordid, dirty in hue. 



spadix, a fleshy spike of flowers. 



spathaceous, resembling, or furnished 

 with, a spathe. 



sjjathe, a bract which enwraps an in- 

 florescence. 



si)atulate, club-shaped. 



spike, flowers sessile on an elongated 

 rachis. 



spinescent, tipped with a spine. 



spinose, spiny. 



spur, any hollow appendage which 

 looks like a spur. 



squamate, furnished with scales. 



squarrose, where scales, leaves or 

 any appendages spread widely 

 from the axis on which they are 

 thickly set. 



stalk, stem, petiole, peduncle, etc. 



stamen, the organ which bears the 

 pollen, composed of an anther 

 and usually a filament. 



staminate, furnished with stamens. 



staminodium, an abortive stamen. 



standard, the upper petal of a papili- 

 onaceous flower. 



stellate, star-like. 



stigma, the receptive part of the pis- 

 til. 



stipe, the stalk of the pistil. 



stipitate, furnished with a stipe. 



stipules, appendages situated on 

 either side of the base of some 

 leaves. 



stolon, a trailing or reclined and 

 rooting shoot. 



stomata, breathing pores of leaves. 



stramineous, straw-like. 



striate, marked with slender longi- 

 tudinal stripes. 



strict, close and narrow; straight and 

 narrow. 



strigose, beset with stout appressed 

 hairs or bristles. 



style, the stalk between the ovary and 

 stigma. 



stylopodium, an enlargement at the 

 base of the style. 



subulate, awl-shaped, tapering from 

 a broad base to a sharp point. 



suckers, shoots from subterranean 

 branches. 



suffrutescent, somewhat woody or 

 shrubby at the base. 



sulcate, grooved longitudinally. 



superior, above. 



suture, the line of junction of con- 

 tiguous parts grown together. 



sympetalous, petals united. 



tawny, dull yellowish, with a tinge of 



brown. 

 tendril, a thread-like organ used in 



climbing. 

 terete, cylindrical. 

 ternate, inS's. 

 testa, the outer seed coat. 

 throat, the expanded portion between 



the lobes and the proper tube in 



a sympetalous corolla. 

 thyrsus, a compact and pyramidal 



panicle of cymes. 

 torus, the receptacle of the flower. 

 trifld, 3-cleft. 



trifoliolate, with 3 leaflets. 

 triquetrous, sharply 3-angled. 

 truncate, as if cut off at the top. 

 tuberculate, bearing little pimple-like 



bodies. 



tunicate, coated, as an onion. 

 turbinate, top-shaped. 



umbel, an inflorescence in which a 

 number of pedicels of nearly 

 equal length spring from the 

 same point, as in the parsley 

 family. 



umbellate, in umbels. 



unarmed, destitute of thorns or 

 spines, etc. 



uncinate, hook-shaped. 



undulate, wavy-margined, or wavy. 



unguiculate, clawed. 



unisexual, having stamens or pistils 

 only. 



