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GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS 



Stone. The hard endocarp of a drupe. 



Strobile. The same as cone. 



Strophiolfid'. Said of a seed bearing a strophiole or 



appendage at the liilum. 

 Style. The attenuated portion of a pistil between the 



ovary and the stigma. 

 Subcordate. Slightly cordate. 

 Subulate. Awl-shaped. 

 Sulcate. Grooved or furrowed. 

 Superior. Growing or *ced above ; also in a lateral 



flower for the side i. ,xt the axis. 

 Suture. A junction, isually a line of opening of a 



carpel. 

 Syncarp. A multiple fruit. 



Taproot. The primary descending root, a direct con- 

 tinuation from the radicle. 



Tegmen. The inner coat of a seed. 



Testa. The outer seed-coat. 



Thyrsoidal. Relating to a thyrsus. 



Thyrsus. A mixed inflorescence with the main axis 

 indeterminate and the secondary or ultimate clus- 

 ters cymose. 



Tomentose. Densely pubescent with matted wool or 

 tomentum. 



Tomenlulose. Slightly pubescent with matted wool. 



Torose. Cylindrical, with contractions or bulges at 

 intervals. 



Torulose. Slightly torose. 



Torus. The same as the receptacle of a flower. 



Transverse. Horizontal. 



Trichotomous. Three-forked. 



Trifoliate. Three-leaved. 



Trifoliolate. Descriptive of leaves, with 3 leaflets. 



Truncate. As if cut off at the end. 



Tubercle. A small tuber or excrescence. 



Tuberculate. Beset with knobby excrescences. 



Turbinate. Top-shaped. 



Turgid. Swollen. 



Umbel. An inflorescence with numerous pedicels 



springing from the same point like the rays of an 



umbrella. 



Umbilicus. The hilum of a seed. 

 Umbo. A boss or protuberance. 

 Umbonale. Bearing an umbo. 

 Uncinate. Hooked, bent, or curved at the tip in the 



form of a hook. 

 Unequally pinnate. Pinnate, with an odd terminal 



leaflet. 

 Unguiculale. Contracted at the base into a claw or 



stalk. 

 Unisexual. Said of flowers with either the stamens or 



pistil or abortive. 

 Urceolale. Hollow and contracted at or below the 



mouth like an urn or pitcher. 

 Utricle. A small bladdery pericarp. 



Valvate. Said of a flower-bud in which the parts meet 



without overlapping. 

 Valve. One of the pieces into which a capsule 



splits. 

 Veinlet. One of the ultimate or smaller ramifications 



of a vein. 

 Veins. Ramifications or threads of fibro-vascular 



tissue in a leaf or other flat organ. 

 Ventral. Belonging to the anterior or inner face of a 



carpel. 

 Ventricose. Swelling unequally or inflated on one 



side. 



Vernation. The disposition of parts in a leaf-bud. 

 Verrucose. Covered with wart-like elevations. 

 Versatile. Said of an anther turning freely on its 



filament. 

 Verticillate. Arranged in a circle or whorl round an 



axis. 

 Villose. Hairy, with long and soft hairs. 



Whorl. An arrangement of branches or leaves in a 



circle round an axis. 

 Wood. The hard part of a stem mainly composed of 



wood-cells, wood fibre, or tissue. 



