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Siircuhse: producing suckers, or slioots resembling them. 



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



summit of the cell which contains tiicm ; p. \22, fig. 209. 

 Siilitral: belonging or relating to a suture. 



Suture: the line of junction of contiguous ])arts grown together; p. 117. 

 Swoid-shiiiied : vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tapering alx)vo to i\ 



point ; as those of Iris, fig. 13.3. 

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

 Si/ndiitherous, or Si/mjencsious: where stamens arc united by their anthers; p. 112, 



fig. 229. 

 Syncdr/mts (fruit or pistil) : comi)Oscd of several carpels consolidated into one. 

 Sptem, p. 195. 

 Systematic Botany: the study of i)lants after their kinds; p. 3. 



Taper-pointed: same as acuminnte ; p. 60, fig. 10.3. 



Tap-root : a root with a stout tai)eriiig body ; p. .32. 



Tawny: dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Tuxdnomi/: the part of Botany which treats of classification. 



Tei/men: a name for the inner seod-coat. 



TendrU: a thread-shaped body used for climbing, p. 3S : 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. 

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



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Ttfrnate: in threes; p. 66. Ternntely : in a tcrnate way. 



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



Telra- (in words of Greek composition) : (bur; as, 



Tetracdccous : of four cocci or carpels. 



Tetradijnamous : where a flower has six stamens, two of them shorter than th« 



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

 Tetrdijonal: four-angled. Telrdt/ynons : with four pistils or styles ; p. 116. 

 Tetrdmerons : with its parts or sets in fours. 

 TetrdndroHs: with four stamens ; ]). 112. 

 T/ieca: a case ; the cells or lobes of the anther. 

 T/iorn : sec spine ; p. 39. 

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



stamens generally. 

 Thivat: the opening or gorge of a monojietalons corolla, &c., where the border 



and the tube join, and a little below. 

 T/iyrsf or Thyrsus: a compact nnd pyramidal panicle; p. 81. 

 Tiimentose : clothed with matted woolly hairs (lomenhim). 

 Tomjiie-shaped : long, flat, but thiekish, and blunt. 

 Toothed: furnished with teeth or short projections of any sort on the mar<:in, 



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



wards; p. 61, fig. 113. 

 Top-shaped: shaped like a to]i, or a cone with its noe.x downwards. 

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