GLOSSARY. XXV11 



Stamen ; the male organ of a flower, usually formed of a fila- 

 ment and anther. 



Staminode ; a scale on the inside of the upper lip of some Scro- 

 phulariacese. 



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 radiant like 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. 



Stigmatic disk ; a broad surface at the top of the style, or form- 

 ing the whole of it, upon which the stigmas are placed. 



Stipe ; the stalk of Ferns up to the lowest pinna. 



Stipules ; leaflike appendages at the base of the petiole. 



Stipulodes ; spines beneath the whorls of branches in Chara. 



Stole ; a lax trailing shoot from the crown of the root, rooting 

 at intervals. 



Stolcmiferous ; having stoles. 



Stotnates ; minute organic openings in the skin of plants. 



Strapshaped ; not very narrow nor long, and with nearly parallel 

 sides. 



Streak ; a straight line of peculiar colour or structure, or a 

 furrow. 



StricB ; very slight furrows or ridges. 



Striate ; with slender streaks or furrows. 



Striped ; having coloured streaks. 



Stripes ; the vittae of Umbellifers. 



Style ; the space between the ovary and stigma. 



Stylopode ; a fleshy disk crowning the ovary and supporting the 

 style of Umbellifers. 



Sub ; in composition means a near approach to ; as subrotund is 

 nearly round. 



Subulate ; awlshaped, tapering from the base to a fine point, a 

 long narrow triangle. 



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



Superior ; above any thing ; 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 whefr 

 wholly free from the calyx ; a part of a flower placed next 

 to the axis. 

 Suspended ovules hang down from near the top of the 



ovary. 



Suture ; the line of junction of similar organs cohering. 

 Swordshaped ; very long, narrow, nearly parallel-sided, sharp- 

 edged, acute. 



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