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GLOSSARY. 



[Vol.. III. 



Stipe. The stalk of an organ. 



Stipitate. Provided with a stipe. 



Stipules. Appendages to the base of a petiole, 



often adnate to it. 

 Stipulate. With stipules. 

 Stolon. A basal branch rooting at the nodes. 

 Stoloniferous. Producing or bearing stolons. 

 Stoma {Stomata). The transpiring orifices in 



the epidermis of plants. 

 Strict. .Straight and erect. 

 Strigose. With appressed or ascending stiff 



hairs. 

 Strophiole. An appendage to a seed at the hilum. 

 Strophiolate. With a strophiole. 

 Style. The narrowed top of the ovary. 

 Stylo podium. The expanded base of a style. 

 Subacute. Somewhat acute. 

 Subcordale. Somewhat heart-shaped. 

 Subcoriaceous. Approaching leathery in texture. 

 Subfalcate. Somewhat scythe-shaped. 

 Subligneous. Somewhat wood}' in texture. 

 Subterete. Nearly terete. 

 Subulate. Awl-shaped. 



Subversalile. Partly or imperfectly versatile. 

 Succulent. Soft and juicy. 

 Sulcale. Grooved longitudinally. 

 Superior. Applied to the ovary when free from 



the calyx; or to a calyx adnate to an ovary. 

 Suture. A line of splitting or opening. 

 Symmetrical. Applied to a flower with its 



parts of equal numbers. 

 Svncarp. A flashy multiple or aggregate fruit. 

 Tendril. A slender coiling organ. 

 Terete. Circular in cross section. 

 Ternate. Divided into three segments, or ar- 

 ranged in threes. 

 Telradynamous. With four long stamens and 



two shorter ones. 

 Thallus. A usually flat vegetative organ. 

 Thyrsoid. Like a thyrsus. 

 Thyrsus. A compact panicle. 

 Tomentose. Covered with tomentum. 

 Tomentulose. Diminutive of tomentose. 

 Tomentum. Dense matted wool- like hairs. 

 Torsion. Twisting of an organ. 

 Tortuous. Twisted or bent. 

 Tracheae. The canals or ducts in woody tissue. 

 Tracheids. Wood- cells. 

 Triandrous. With three stamens. 

 Tricarpous. Composed of three carpels. 



Trimorphous. Flowers with stamens of three 

 different lengths or kinds; in three forms. 



Triquetrous. Three-sided, the sides channeled. 



Truncate. Terminated by a nearly straight 

 edge or surface. 



Tuber. A thick short underground branch or 

 part of a branch. 



Tubercle. The persistent base of the style in 

 some Cyperaceae; a small tuber. 



Tuberculate. With rounded projections. 



Turbinate. Top-shaped. 



Uliginous. Inhabiting mud. 



Umbel. A determinate, usually convex flower- 

 cluster, with all the pedicels arising from the 

 same point. 



Umbellate. Borne in umbels; resembling an 

 umbel. 



Umbellet. A secondary umbel. 



Umbelloid. Similar to an umbel. 



Uncinate. Hooked, or in form like a hook. 



Undulate. With wavy margins. 



Urc&olate. Urn-shaped. 



Utricle. A bladder-like organ; a one-seeded 

 fruit with a loose pericarp. 



Valvate. Meeting by the margins in the bud, 

 not overlapping; dehiscent by valves. 



Vascular. Relating to ducts or vessels. 



Vein. One of the branches of the woody por- 

 tion of leaves or other organs. 



Veinlet. A branch of a vein. 



Velum. A fold of the inner side of the leaf- 

 base in Isoetes. 



Velutinous. Velvety; with dense fine pubes- 

 cence. 



Venation. The arrangement of veins. 



Vernation. The arrangement of leaves in the 

 bud. 



Versatile. An anther attached at or near its 

 middle to the filament. 



Verticillate. With three or more leaves or 

 branches at a node; whorled. 



Vestigial. In the nature of a vestige or rem- 

 nant. 



Villous. With long soft hairs, not matted 

 together. 



Virgate. Wand-like. 



Whorl. A group of three similar organs or 

 more, radiating from a node. Verticil. 



Whorled. See Verticillate. 



Winged. With a thin expansion or expansions. 



ERRATA. 



Vol. I, Fig. 63. For " one-forked " read "once- 

 forked." 

 Fig. 114. First line, read Pinus divaricata (Ait.) 



Gordon. The citation is Pinus divaricata 



Gordon, Pinetum; 163. 1858. 

 p. 86. Generic description of Lophotocarpus, 



after " Perennial " add " or annual." 

 p. 93. Line 4, Read "elongated." 

 Fig. 467. Add Poa pseudopratensis Scribn. 



& Rydb. Contr. Nat. Herb. 3: 531. pi. 20. 



1896. 

 p. 209. Under Scolochloa, for "rickle-like," 



read "prickle-like." 

 Fig. 496. Read Puccinellia angustata (R. Br.) 



Redf. & Rand, Fl. Mt. Desert, iSr. 1S94. 

 Fig. 918. For"l"-lK" long." read "i'-i'A'." 

 p. 410. Under Liliaceae, for Agave read Yucca 



in two places. 

 p. 416. Under Lilium ; for "diciduous," read 



" deciduous." 

 p. 456. Key, for Periamium read Peramium. 

 p. 476. Citation of Leptorchis. read "Philorn." 

 Fig. 1 174. For Wardii read Wardi. 



Vol. II, Fig. 1595. Read ter resin's. 



Fig. 1630. For "recurved" read "inflexed." 



p. 118, Key, for Sinapistrum read arvensis. 



p. 127, Key, for Douglasii read purpurea. 



Fig. 2065, after Blackseed insert period. 



Fig. 2249. Read " Pink Needle." 



Fig. 2250. Read " 2'-6' high." 



p. 370, Key. For stricfospora read stictospora. 



Figs. 2314, 2315. For "ash- colored," read 



" brown." 

 Fig. 2425. Read Malvastrum. 

 Fig. 2530. For "according to Hitchcock," read 



"according to B. B. Smyth." 

 Fig. 2669. For Anethrum read Anethum. 

 Fig. 2698. For "Britton," read" Heller," and 



add citation Spermolepis echinatus Heller, 



Contr. F. & M. Coll. 1: 73. 1895. 

 Fig. 2776. Read " Burren Myrtle." 



Vol. Ill, p. 18, First line, for laevis read laeve. 



Fig. 3174. Note, read "Sage of Bethlehem." 



Fig. 3229. For "or" read " Adam's -flannel." 



p. 144. For Fig. 2333 read 3233. 



Fig. 3412. For "Clover" read " Claver" grass. 



Fig. 3434. Read "Wayfaring." 



p. 300, Key, No. 38, for Ianactis read Ionaclis. 



Fig. 3708. Note, Var. 4, Read gilvocanescens. 



p. 396, Key, for viscosa read foetid a. 



A few errors in accent and in index paging are corrected in the General Index. 



