XXV111 GLOSSARY. 



Sympode ; a stem formed of a series of superposed branches so 



as to resemble a continuous axis. 

 Syncarpous ; fruit formed of cohering carpels. 

 Syngenesious flowers form a head and have 5 stamens with 



united anthers. 



Tailed ; having a long slender point. 



Tassel-like ; resembling a silken tassel or painter's camel's-hair 

 pencil. 



Tendril; a twisting slender organ for laying hold of objects. 



Terete ; having a nearly round transverse section. 



Ternate ; growing in threes about the same point of a stem. 



Testa ; the outer coat of a seed. 



Testaceous ; brownish yellow. 



Tetragonous ; with four angles and four convex faces. 



Thorn ; an abortive branch with a sharp point ; distinguished 

 from a prickle by being woody. 



Three-veined ; having three veins, usually of nearly equal size, 

 proceeding from the base. Sometimes leaves are falsely 

 three-veined when the ends of a series of lateral veins com- 

 bine to form a submarginal vein near each edge of the leaf. 



Throat ; the orifice of the tube of a gamopetalous corolla or 

 gamosepalous calyx. 



Thyrsoid ; having a close-branched raceme of which the middle 

 is broader than the ends. 



Tomentose ; covered with cottony entangled hairs, forming a 

 matted shagginess called tomentum ; felted. 



Torulose; uneven, alternately elevated and depressed like a 

 knotted cord. 



Torus ; the part within the calyx to which the floral organs are 

 attached. 



Transversely ; applied to forms like oval when attached by one 

 of their longer sides. 



Triangular ; with three angles and three flat faces. 



Trinhotomous ; in forks of three prongs. 



Trifarious ; arranged in three rows. 



Trifid ; dividing about halfway down into three parts. 



Trifurcate ; forked with three nearly equal prongs. 



Trigonous ; with three angles and three convex faces. 



Tripartite ; divided into three parts nearly to its base. 



Triquetrous ; having three angles and three concave faces. 



Truncate ; blunt as if cut off at the end. 



Tube ; the pipe formed by the cohesion of the parts of a floral 

 whorl. 



Tuber ; a thickened underground fleshy part of the stem. 



Tubercles ; little round knobs. 



Tubercular; tubercled; covered with little knobs. 



