GLOSSARY. 



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Stomatose. Having stomata. 



Stone. The hard endocarp orputamen of a drupe. 



Stramineous. Straw-like or of a straw-color. 



Strap-shaped. See Ligulate. 



Striate. Marked with tine longitudinal lines or 

 furrows. 



Strict. Upright and very straight. 



Sf.riffill.ose. Minutely strigose. 



Strigose. Beset with short straight stiff and 

 appressed sharp-pointed hairs. 



Strobile. An inflorescence formed of imbricated 

 scales, as in the Hop and the Conifer*. 



Strophiole. An appendage at the point of at- 

 tachment of some seeds. 



Strnma. In mosses, a wen-like unsym metrical 

 thickening of the pedicel at the base of the 

 capsule. 



Style. That portion of the pistil between the 

 ovary proper and the stigma, usually atten- 

 uated, often wanting. 



Styliform. Style-shaped. 



Stylopodium. A cushion-like expansion at the 

 base of the style in Umbellifene. 



Sub-. In composition, somewhat or slightly. 



Submerged. Growing under water. 



Subtended. Supported or surrounded, as a pedi- 

 cel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an in- 

 volucre ; fulcrate. 



Subulate. Awl-shaped. 



Succubous. Imbricated downward, the apex of 

 each leaf covered by the base of the one above. 



Succulent. Fleshy and juicy. 



Sucker. A shoot from the underground base of a 

 stem, or from underground roots or rhizomes. 



Su/rutescent. Somewhat or slightly shrubby ; 

 woody at base. 



Suffruticose. Low and shrubby. 



Silicate. Grooved or furrowed. 



Superior. Growing above ; a superior ovary is 

 one wholly above and free from the calyx ; 

 in a lateral flower, nearest to the axis. 



Surculose. Producing suckers. 



Suspended. Hanging directly downward ; hang- 

 ing from the apex of a cell. 



Suture. A line of union, or of dehiscence. 



Sword-shaped. A blade with two thin acute 

 edges, as in Iris. 



Symmetrical. Regular in shape or in the num- 

 ber of its parts. 



Syncarpous. Composed of two or more united 

 carpels. 



Synonym. A superseded or unused name. 



Tail. Any long and slender terminal prolon- 

 gation. 



Teeth. Small marginal or terminal lobes of any 

 kind. 



Tendril. A thread-like production from an 

 axil, the extremity of a leaf, or elsewhere, 

 capable of coiling and used for climbing. 



Terete. Cylindrical or nearly so ; not angled 

 nor channelled. 



Ternate. In threes ; with three divisions. 



Ternate-pinnate. Ternate with the divisions 

 pinnate. 



Tessellated. Chequered ; like mosaic or chequer- 

 work. 



Testa. The outer seed -coat. 



Tctradynamous. With four long and two shorter 

 stamens ; applied to the Crucifene. 



Tetragonal. Four-angled. 



Tctramcrous. Of a flower, having its parts in 

 fours. 



Tetrandrous. With four stamens. 



Thalloid. Resembling a thallus. 



Thcillus. In cryptogams, a cellular expansion 

 taking the place of stem and foliage, very 

 various in form. 



Thorn. See Spine. 



Throat. The orifice of a gamopetalous corolla 

 or calyx ; the portion of the corolla immedi- 

 ately below the limb or between the limb and 

 the tube. 



Thyrse. A contracted or close ovate panicle. 



Tissue. The various forms of cellular and 

 vascular structure of which a plant is com- 

 posed. 



Tomentose. Pubescent with matted wool. 



Tomentum. Dense matted woolly pubescence. 



Tongue-shaped. Oblong and somewhat fleshy, 

 nearly flat, and rounded at the apex. 



Toothed. Provided with teeth. 



Top-shaped. Inverted broad-conical. 



Torose. Swelling interruptedly ; cylindrical, or 

 somewhat so, with constrictions at intervals. 



Tortuous. Twisted. 



Torulose. Slightly torose. 



Torus. The receptacle of a flower ; the apex of 

 the flower-stalk, more or less modified to sup- 

 port the parts of the flower. 



Transverse. Across, from side to side. 



Tree. A woody branching plant, with erect 

 trunk, ten feet high or more. 



Triandrous. With three stamens. 



Triangular. Three-angled. 



Trichotomous. Branching by threes. 



Trifid. Three-cleft. 



Trifoliate. Three-leaved. 



TrifoHolate. Having three leaflets. 



Trimerous. Having its parts in threes. 



Tripinnntc. Three times pinnate. 



Triquetrous. Of a stem, etc., triangular with 

 the sides somewhat concave or channelled. 



Triquinate. Ternate with the divisions again 

 divided into five. 



Tristychous. In three vertical ranks. 



Triternate. Three times ternate. 



Trumpet-shaped. Tubular with a dilated orifice. 



Truncate. Ending abruptly as if cut off trans- 

 versely. 



Trunk. A main stem. 



Tube. Any elongated hollow body or part of 

 an organ. 



Tuber. A thickened rhizome, with scattered 

 buds or eyes. 



Tubercle. A small projection or pimple ; a 

 small tuber or a tuberous root. 



Tuberculatc. Covered with small rounded prom- 

 inences or knobs. 



Tuberiferous. Bearing tubers. 



Tuberous. Resembling a tuber. 



Tubular. Tube -shaped. 



Tubulifl-orous. When the flowers of a head 

 have only tubular corollas. 



