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Spurred, furnished with a spur. 



Squarrose, rough with projecting or deflexed scales. 



Stamen, the male organ of a flower, usually formed of a filament and anther. 



Standard, the upper or posterior petal of a Pea-flower which is outside the 



others in the bud. 

 Starlike, applied to flowers of which the petals are narrow and distant and 



radiate like the rays of a star. 

 Stellate, radiating from a centre like a star. 

 Stellulate, like minute stars. 

 Stigma, the cellular part at the top of a carpel or style to which the pollen 



adheres. 



Stipe, the stalk of Ferns up to the lowest pinnas. 

 Stipules, leaf-like appendages at the base of the petiole. 

 Strapshaped, not very narrow nor long, and with nearly parallel sides. 

 Streak, a straight line of peculiar colour or structure, or a furrow. 

 Striate, with slender streaks or furrows. 

 Striped, having coloured streaks. 

 Style, the space between the ovary and stigma. 

 Sub, in composition means a near approach to; thus sulrotund means nearly 



round. 

 Subulate, awl-shaped, tapering from the base to a fine point, a long narrow 



triangle. 



Sucker, a stem produced at the end of an underground shoot. 

 Siiffruticose, half-shrubby. 

 Superior, above anything ; a calyx is superior when its tube is wholly attached 



to the ovary, half -superior when attached only to the lower half of it ; an 



ovary is superior when wholly free from the calyx. 

 Supra-decompound, subdivided many times. 

 Tailed, having a long slender point. 



Tendril, a twisting slender organ for laying hold of objects. 

 Terete, applied to round or nearly round stems. 

 Ternate, growing in threes. 



Tetragonous, with four angles and four convex faces. 

 Thorn, an abortive branch with a sharp point ; distinguished from a prickle by 



being woody. 



Throat, the orifice of the tube of a mouopetalous corolla or monosepalous calyx. 

 Thyrsoid, having a close-branched raceme of which the middle is broader than 



the ends. 

 Tomentose, covered with cottony entangled hairs, forming a matted shagginess 



called tomentum ; felted. 



Triangular, with three angles and three flat faces. 

 Trichotomous, in forks of three prongs successively repeated. 

 Trifid, dividing about halfway down into three parts. 

 Trifoliate, composed of three leaflets, as the leaves of Clover. 

 Trigonous, with three angles and three convex faces. 

 Tripartite, divided into three parts nearly to its base. 

 Tripinnate, three times pinnately subdivided. 

 Triquetrous, having three angles and three concave faces. 

 Truncate, blunt as if cut off at the end. 

 Tube, the pipe formed by the cohesion of the Darts of a floral whorl. 



