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Surcufase : producing suckers, or shoots resembling them. 



Suspended: hanging down. Suspended ovules or seeds hang from the very 



summit of the cell which contains them ; p. 122, fig. 269. 

 Sutural: belonging or relating to a suture. 



Suture: the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together; p. 117. 

 Stvord-shaped : vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tapering above to a 



point; as those of Iris, fig. 133. 



Symmetrical Flower: similar in the number of parts of each set; p. 89. 

 Syndntheroiis, or Syngenesious: where stamens are united by their anthers ; p. 1 1 2, 



fig. 229. 



Syncdrpous (fruit or pistil) : composed of several carpels consolidated into one. 

 System, p. 195. 

 Systematic Botany: the study of plants after their kinds; p. 3. 



Taper-pointed: same as acuminate; p. 60, fig. 103. 



Tap-root : a root with a stout tapering body ; p. 32. 



Tawny: dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Taxdnomy : the part of Botany which treats of classification. 



Teijmm : a name for the inner seed-coat. 



Tendril: a thread-shaped body used for climbing, p. 38: it is either a branch, 

 as in Virginia Creeper, fig. 62 ; or a part of a leaf, as in Pea and Vetch, 

 fig. 127. 



Terete : long and round ; same as cylindrical, only it may taper. 



Terminal : borne at, or belonging to, the extremity or summit. 



Terminology : the part of the science which treats of technical terms ; same as 

 glossology. 



Te'rnate: in threes; p. 66. Ternately : in a tcrnate way. 



Testa: the outer (and usually the harder) coat or shell of the seed; p. 134. 



Tetra- (in words of Greek composition) : four; as, 



Tetracdccous : of four cocci or carpels. 



Tetradynamous : where a flower has six stamens, two of them shorter than the 

 other four, as in Mustard, p. 92, 112, fig. 188. 



Tetragonal : four-angled. Tetrdgynons : with four pistils or styles; p. 116. 



Tetrdmerous : with its parts or sets in fours. 



Tetrdndrous: with four stamens; p. 112. 



Theca : a case ; the cells or lobes of the anther. 



Thorn : see spine ; p. 39. 



Thread-shaped: slender and round, or roundish like a thread ; as the filament of 

 stamens generally. 



Throat : the opening or gorge of a monopetalous corolla, &c., where the border 

 and the tube join, and a little below. 



Thyrse or Thyrsus: a compact and pyramidal panicle; p. 81. 



Tomentose : clothed with matted woolly hairs (tomentum). 



Tongue-shaped: long, flat, but thickish, and blunt. 



Toothed: furnished with teeth or short projections of any sort on the margin ; 

 used especially when these are sharp, like saw-teeth, and do not point for- 

 wards ; p. 61, fig. 113. 



Top-shaped: shaped like a top, or a cone with its apex downwards. 

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