232 GLOSSARY. 



Station : the particular place, or kind of situation, in which a plant naturally 



occurs. 

 Stellate, Stellular: starry or star-like; where several similar parts spread out 



from a common centre, like a star. 

 Stem, p. 36, &c. 



Stemless : destitute or apparently destitute of stem. 

 Sterile : barren or imperfect ; p. 89. 



Stigma : the part of tlic pistil which receives the pollen ; p 87. 

 Sliijmdtic, or Stigmatose : belonging to the stigma. 

 Stipe (Latin stijics) ■ the stalk of a pistil, &c., when it has any ; the stem of a 



Mushroom. 

 Slipel : a stipule of a leaflet, as of tiic Bean, &c. 

 Stipellate: furnished with stipels, as the Bean and some other Leguminous 



plants. 

 Stipitate: furnished with a stipe, as the pistil of Cleome, fig. 276. 

 Stipulate : furnished with stipules. 



Stipules : the appendages one each side of the base of certain leaves ; p. 69. 

 Stolons: trailing or reclined and rooting shoots ; p. 37. 

 Stoloniferous : producing stolons. 



Stomate (Latin xtoma, plural stomata) : the breathing-pores of leaves, &c. ; p. l.^-e. 

 Strap-shaped: long, flat, and narrow; p. 106. 

 Striate, or Striated: marked with slender longitudinal grooves or ciiannds 



(Latin strice). 

 Strict : close and narrow ; straight and narrow. 



Striyillose, Sirvjose : beset with stout and appressed, scale-like or rigid bristles. 

 Strohildceotis : relating to, or resembling a 

 Str6hile: a multiple fruit in the form of a cone or head, as that of the Hop and 



of the Pine; fig. 314, p. 133. 

 Strdphiole: same as caruncle. Strophiolate : furnished with a strophiole. 

 Struma: a wen ; a swelling or protuberance of any organ. 

 Sl//le : a part of the pistil which bears the stigma ; p. 86. 

 Sti/lopddium : an epigynous disk, or an enlargement at tlie base of the style, 



found in Umbelliferous and some other plants. 

 Sub-, as a prefix : about, nearly, somewhat ; as suhcordate, slightly cordate : fuh- 



serrate, slightly serrate : suhaxillary , just beneath the axil, &c., &c. 

 Siiberose: corky or cork-like in texture. 

 Subclass, p. 177, 183. Snhorder, p. 176. Suhtrihe, p. 177. 

 Subulate : awl-shaped ; tapering from a broadish or thickish base to a sharp 



point ; p. 68. 

 Succulent : juicy or pulpy. 



Suckers: shoots from subterranean branches; p. 37. 

 Snffrute'scevl : slightly siu'ubby or woody at the base only ; p. 36. 

 Sugar, p. 163. 



Sulcate: grooved longitudinally with deep furrows. 

 Supernumerari/ Buds: p. 26. 



Supe'rvolute : plaited and convolute in bud ; p 110, fig. 225. 

 Supra-a.rillari/ : borne above the axil, as some buds : p. 26, fig. 52. 

 Supra-decompound: many times comnounded or divided. 



