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GLOSSARY 



Sporocarp. The fruit-cases of certain 

 Cryptogams containing sporangia or 

 spores. 



Sporophyll. A spore-bearing leaf. . . 



Sporophyte. The asexual generation of 



Spreading. Diverging nearly at right 



angles; nearly prostrate. 

 Spur. A hollow projection. 

 Squamella (-ae) A scale-like member of 



the pappus of some composites. 

 Squamiform. Resembling a scale. 

 Squarrose. With spreading or projecting 



Stamen. The organ of a flower which 



bears the microspores (pollen-grains). 

 Staminate. Possessing stamens. Ap- 



plied to flowers which have stamens but 



not pistils. 



Stameniferous. Bearing stamens. 

 Staminodium. A sterile stamen, or other 



organ in the position of a stamen. 

 Standard. The upper, usually broad, 



petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 

 Stellate. Star-like. 

 Sterigmata. The projection from twigs, 



bearing the leaves, in some genera of 



Pinaceae. 



Sterile. Without spores, or without seed. 

 Stigma. That part of a pistil through 



which fertilization by the pollen is ef- 



fected. 

 Stigmatic. Belonging to or characteristic 



of the stigma. 

 Stipe. The stalk-like lower portion of a 



pistil; the leaf-stalk of a fern. 

 Stipitate. Provided with a stipe. 

 Stipular. Belonging to stipules. 

 Stipulate. Having stipules. 

 Stipules. The appendages on each side 



of the base of certain leaves. 

 Stolon. A basal branch rooting at the 



nodes. 

 Stoloniferous. Producing or bearing sto- 



lons. 

 Stoma (pi. Stomata). An orifice in the 



epidermis of a leaf communicating with 



internal air-cavities. 

 Stramineous. Straw-colored. 

 Striate. Marked with slender longitu- 



dinal grooves or channels. 

 Strict. Very straight and upright. 

 Strigillose. Diminutive of strigose. 

 Strigose. With appressed stiff hairs. 

 Strobilaceous. Like a pine-cone. 

 Strobile. An inflorescence marked by im- 



bricated bracts or scales, as in the pine- 



cone. 



Strophiolate. With a strophiole. 

 Strophiole. An appendage to a seed at 

 t the hilum. 

 Style. The usually attenuated portion 



of the pistil connecting the stigma and 



ovary. 

 Stylopodium. A disk-like expansion at 



the base of a style, as in Umbelliferae. 

 ouo- (in compound words). Somewhat 



almost, in a subordinate grade, of infer- 



ior rank, beneath. 

 Submarginal. Near the margin; situated 



under the margin. 

 Subulate. Awl-shaped. 

 Succulent. Soft and juicy. 

 Sucker. A shoot from subterranean 



branches. 

 Suffrutescent. Slightly or obscurely shrubby. 



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Supra-axillary. Inserted some distance 



above the axils. 

 Surculose. Producing shoots from the 



rootstock. 

 Superior (ovary). Free from the calyx or 



hypanthium. 

 Suspended (ovule). Hanging from the 



apex of the cell. 



Suture. A line of splitting or opening. 

 Symmetrical. Applied to a flower with 



the different series of its parts of equal 



numbers. 



Sympetalous. With united petals. 

 Syngenecious. With stamens united by 



their anthers. 

 Synonym. A superseded or unused name. 



Taproot. A stout vertical root which 



continues the main axis of the plant. 

 Tawny. Dull yellowish, with a tinge of 



brown. 

 Tendril. A thread-shaped process used 



for climbing. 



Terete. Circular in cross-section. 

 Ternary. Consisting of three. 

 Ternate. Divided into three segments, or 



arranged in threes. 

 Tesellate. Checkered. 

 Testa. The outer coat or covering of the 



Sulcate. Grooved longitudinally. 

 supra- (in compound words). Above, 

 being above. 



Tetra- (in compounds) means four. 



Tetradynamous. Applied to stamens when 

 there are six in the flower, four of them 

 longer than the other two. 



Tetragonal. Four-angled. 



Tetramerous. Applied to flowers con- 

 structed on the numerical plan of four. 



Thalloid. Resembling a thallus. 



Thallus. A usually flat vegetative organ. 



Throat. The orifice of a gamopetalous 

 corolla or calyx; the part between the 

 proper tube and the limb. 



Thyrsoid. Like a thyrsus. 



Thyrsus. A congested cyme. 



Tomentose. Covered with tomentum. 



Tomentulose. Diminutive of tomentose. 



Tomentum. Dense matted wool-like hairs. 



Torose. Cylindrical with contractions at 

 intervals. 



Torsion. Twisting of an organ. 



Tortuous. Twisted or bent. 



Torulose. Diminutive of Torose. 



Torus. The receptacle of a flower. 



Transverse. Across; in a right and left 

 direction. 



Tri- (in composition) three or thrice. 



Triandrous. Having three stamens. 



Trichotomous. Three-forked. 



Tridentate. Three- toothed. 



Trifoliolate. Having three leaflets. 



Trigonous. Three-angled. 



Triquetrous. Having three salient angles, 

 the sides concave or channelled. 



Truncate. Ending abruptly, as if cut off 

 transversely. 



Tuber. A thickened and short subter- 

 ranean branch, having numerous buds. 



Tubercle. The persistent base of the 

 style in some Cyperaceae; a small pro- 

 jection. 



Tuberculate. With rounded projections. 



Tuberiferous. Bearing tubers. 



Tuberous. Resembling a tuber. 



Tumid. Swollen. 



Tunicate. Coated; invested with layers, 

 as an onion. 



Turbinate. Top-shaped. 



Turion. A scaly shoot from a subter- 

 ranean bud. 



Turioniferous. Bearing turions or suck- 

 ers like the shoots of Asparagus. 



