GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 223 



Suckers, shouts from subterranean branche 

 Suffruteseent, slightly shrubby or woody al tbe base only, 39. 

 Suffrutieose, rather more than Buffrutescent, ; ;t. 39. 

 Sulcate, grooved longitudinally with deep furrows. 

 Superior, above, 96; sometimes equivalent to posterior, 96. 

 Sup ernume rary Bud*, 30, 31. 



Supervohtte, plaited and convolute in hud, 97. 



Supine, lying flat, with face upward. 



Supra-axillary, home above the axil, as some buds, 31. 



8upra~decompound\ many times compounded or divided. 



Swrculoee, producing suckers [Surculi) or shoots resembling them. 



8u§pended, hangiug down. Suspended ovules or seeds hang from the very summit 



of the cell which contains them. 

 Sutural, belonging or relating to a suture. 



Suture, the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together, 106. 

 Sword-shaped, applied to narrow leaves, with acute parallel edges, tapering above. 

 Syeonium, the tig-fruit, 124. 

 Sylrestrine, growing in woods. 



Symmetrical Flower, similar in the number of parts of each set, 82. 

 Sympetalous, same as gamopetalous. 

 Sympode, Sympodium, a stem composed of a series of Buperposed hranches in such 



a way as to imitate a simple axis, as in Grape-vine. 

 SynatUherOUS or Syngenesious, where stamens are united by their anthers, 1(H). 

 Syncarpous (fruit or pistil), composed of several carpels consolidated into one. 

 Synonym, an equivalent superseded name. 

 Synstpalous, same as gamosepalous. 

 System (artificial and natural), 182, 183. 

 Systematic Botany, the study of plants after their kinds, 9. 



Tabescent, wasting or shrivelling. 

 Tail, any long and slender prolongation of an organ. 

 Taper-pointed, same as acuminate, 54. 

 Tup-root, a root with a stout tapering body. -32-35. 

 Tawny, dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 

 Taxonomy, the part of botany which treats of classification. 

 Tegmen, a name for the inner seed-coat. 

 Tendril, a thread-shaped organ used for climbing, 40. 

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

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

 Terminology treats of technical terms; same as Glossology, 181. 

 Temate, Ternately, in threes. 

 Tessellate, in checker-work. 



Testa, the outer (and usually the harder) coat or shell of the seed, 185. 

 Testaceous, the color of unglazed pottery. 



Tetra- (in words of Greek composition), four; as, Tetracoccous, of four cocci. 

 Tetradynamous, where a flower has six stamens, two shorter than the four, 101. 

 Tetragonal, four-angled. Tetragynous, with four pistils or styles. Tetramerous, 

 with its parts or sets in fours. TetrandroUS, with four stamen-. LOO. 



Tetraspore, a quadruple -pore, 169. 



Thalatnqflorous, with petals ami stamens inserted on the torus or 'Thalamus. 



TkaUopkyta, Tkallophytes, L66. 



Tkallus, a stratum, in place ><i Mem and leaves, 1G5. 



Tin, -a, a case; the cells or lobe- of the anther. 



Theeapkore, the stipe of a carpel, 113. 



Thorn, an indurated pointed branch, 41, 42. 

 Thread-shaped, -lender and round or roundish, like a thread. 



Throat, the opening or gorge of a monopetalous corolla, &C., where the border and 

 the tube join, and a little helow. B9. 



