GLOSSARY. 



Stfpitate : f urnislied with a stipe, as the pistil of Clcoine. 



Stipulate : furnished with stipules. 



Stipules : the appendages on each side of the base of certain leaves. 



Stolons : trailing or reclined and rooting shoots. 



Stoloniferous : producing stolons. 



Stomate (Latin stoma, plural stomata) : the breatliing-pores of leaves, &c. 



Strap-shaped : long, flat, and narrow. 



Striate, or Striated : marked with slender longitudinal grooves or channels 



(Latin striae]. 



Strict: close and narrow; straight and narrow. 



StrigCttose, Strv/ose: beset with stout and appressed, scale-like or rigid bristles. 

 Strobi/dceous : relating to, or resembling a 

 Strobile : a multiple fruit in the form of a cone or head, as that of the Hop 



and of the Pine. 



Strophiole : same as caruncle. Strophiolate : furnished with a strophiole. 

 Struma: a wen ; a swelling or protuberance of any organ. 

 Stifle: a part of the pistil which bears the stigma. 

 Stylopddium : an epigynous disk, or an enlargement at the base of the style, 



found in Umbelliferous and some other plants. 

 Sub-, as a prefix ; about, nearly, somewhat ; as sabcordate, slightly cordate : 



subserrate, slightly serrate : subaxillary, just beneath the axil, &c., &c. 

 Suberose: corky or cork-like in texture. 

 Subulate: awl-shaped ; tapering from a broadish or thickish base to a sharp 



point. 



Succulent: juicy or pulpy. 

 Suckers : shoots from subterranean branches. 

 Suffrutescent : slightly shrubby or woody at the base only. 

 Sulcate: grooved longitudinally with deep furrows. 

 Supe'rvolute : plaited and convolute in bud. 

 Supra-axillary : borne above the axil, as some buds: 

 Surculose : producing suckers, or shoots resembling them. 

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



summit of the cell which contains them. 



Suture : the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together. 

 Sword-shaped : vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tapering above to a 



point ; as those of Iris. 



S i/mmetrical Flower: similar in the number of parts of each set. 

 Syndntherous, or S ynaenexious : where stamens are united by their anthers. 

 Syncdrpous (fruit or pistil) : composed of several carpels consolidated into 



Taper-pointed: same as acuminate. 



Tap-root : a root with a stout tapering bofy . 



Tawny : dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Tendri : a thread-shaped body used for climbing; it is either a branch, as in 



Virginia Creeper, or a part of a leaf, as in Pea and Vetch. 

 Terete : long and round ; same as cylindrical, only it may taper. 

 Terminal: borne at. or belonging to, the extremity or summit. 

 Ternate: in threes ; Ternateli) : in a ternate way. 



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