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GLOSSARY 



GLOSSARY 



SEGMENT. One of the parts of a leaf or other like 

 organ that is cleft or divided. 



SELF-COLORED. Of one color ; not striped. 



SELF-FERTILIZATION. Action of pollen upon a pistil 

 of the same flower ; close-fertilization. 



SEPAL. A division of a calyx. 



SERRATE. Having sharp teeth pointing forward. 



SERRULATE. Finely serrate. 



SESSILE. Without footstalk of any kind. 



SETA. A brittle. 



SETACEOUS. Bristle-like. 



SETIFORM. Bristle-shaped. 



SETOSE. Beset with bristles. 



SETULOSE. Having minute bristles. 



SHRUB. A woody perennial, smaller than a tree, 

 usually with several stems. 



SILKY. Covered with close-pressed soft pubescence. 



SIMPLE. Of one piece ; not compound. 



SINUATE. With the outline of the margin strongly 

 wavy. 



SINUS. The cleft or recess between two lobes. 



SMOOTH. Without roughness or pubescence. 



SPATULATE. Gradually narrowed downward from a 

 rounded summit. 



SPECIES. The unit in .classification. 



SPINE. A sharp woody or rigid outgrowth from the 

 stem. 



SPINOSE. Spine-like. 



SPINULE. A little spine or spine-like process. 



SPUR. A hollow sac-like or tubular extension. 



STAMEN. One of the pollen-bearing organs of the 

 flower. 



STELLATE, STELLIFORM. Star-shaped; said of star- 

 like dots on the apple. 



STEM. The main ascending axis of a plant. 



STERILE. Unproductive, as a flower without pistil, or 

 stamen without an anther. 



STIGMA. That part of a pistil through which fertiliza- 

 tion by the pollen is effected. 



STIGMATIC. Belonging to or characteristic of the 

 stigma. 



STIPULE. An appendage at the base of a petiole or 

 on each side of its insertion. 



STOLON. A runner, or any basal branch that is dis- 

 posed to root. 



STOLONIFEROUS. Producing stolons. 



STRIATE. Marked with fine longitudinal lines or 

 ridges. 



STRIGOSE. Beset with appressed sharp straight and 

 stiff hairs. 



STYLE. The usually attenuated portion of the pistil 

 connecting the stigma and ovary. 



SUCCULENT. Juicy; fleshy. 



SUCKER. A sprout or shoot arising from an under- 

 ground root or stem ; also, an adventitious shoot in 

 the top of a plant, especially a vigorous shoot. 



SUFFRUTESCENT. Slightly or obscurely shrubby. 



SUFFRUTICOSE. Very low and woody; diminutively 

 shrubby. 



SULCATE. Grooved or furrowed. 



SUPERIOR. Said of the ovary when it is free; above, 

 in position. 



SUTURE. A line of dehiscence. 



SYMMETRICAL, (flower). Regular as to number of 

 its parts: having the same number of parts in each 

 circle 



TENDRIL. The coiled, threadlike organ by which a 



vine clasps an object. 



TERETE. Having a circular transverse section. 

 TERNATE. In threes. 



TESTA. The outer, commonly hard and brittle seed-coat. 

 THROAT. The orifice of a gamopetalous corolla or 



calyx ; the part between the proper tube and the 



limb. 



TOMENTOSE. Densely pubescent with matted wool. 

 TORUS. The receptacle of a flower. 

 TRIFID. Three-cleft. 

 TRIFOLIATE. Having three leaflets. 

 TRUNCATE. Ending abruptly, as if cut off transversely. 

 TUMID. Swollen. 

 TURBINATE. Top-shaped ; inversely conical. 



UMBEL. An inflorescence in which the peduncles or 

 pedicels of a cluster spring from the same point. 



UMBELLATE. In or like an umbel. 



UNDULATE. With a wavy surface. 



UNISEXUAL. Of one sex, either staminate or pistillate 

 only. 



VALVATE. Opening by valves, as a capsule; in aesti- 

 vation, meeting by the edges without overlapping. 



VARIETY. A form, which, in the judgment of any 

 writer, is considered to be subordinate to the species 

 in classificatory importance. 



VEINS. Threads of fibrovascular tissue in a leaf or 

 other organ, especially those with branch. 



VENATION. Veining. 



VENTRAL. Belonging to the inner face of an organ; 

 the opposite of dorsal. 



VENTRICOSE. Swelling unequally, or inflated on one 

 side. 



