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Stellata seta, a species of pubescence called bristles, when 

 they arise from the centre in form of a star, as in the Me- 

 sembryanthemum barbatum. 



Stellata, planta, one of Mr Ray's classes, the Tetrandria mo- 

 nogynia of Linnaeus. 



Stellatae, an order of plants in the Fragmenta methodi natu- 

 ralis of Linnaeus. 



Sterilises, a barren flower, masculus of Linnaeus. 



Stigma, apex of the pistillum. 



Stimulae, stings. 



Stipitatus pappus, a kind of trunk that elevates the down, and 

 connects it with the seed. 



Stipula, one of the kinds of fulcra of plants, generally grow- 

 ing on each side of the base of the footstalks of leaves or 

 flowers, and are either by two's, single, deciduous, abiding x 

 adhering, loose, on the inside of the footstalks, or on the 

 outside. 



Stipulares glandulae, glands produced from stipulae. 



Stolo, a shoot, which running on the surface of the ground, 

 strikes root at every joint, as in Fragaria and others. 



Striatus caulis, culmus, &c. channelled streaks, running 

 lengthways in parallel lines. 



Strictus caulis, a straight stiff shoot. 



Strigae, ridges, rows. 



Strobilus, a species of pericarpium, formed from an amen- 

 tum, as the cone of a pine tree. 



Strophiolum, a gland-like appendage to the seed 'near the 

 hilum, as in Asarum. 



Stylus, that part of the pistillum which elevates the stigma 

 from the germen. 



Submersum folium, when aquatic plants have their leaves 

 sunk under the surface of the water. 



Subramosus caulis, a stalk having few branches. 



Subrotundum folium, a leaf almost round. 



Subu\ztum folium, an awl- shaped leaf. 



Succulentae, juicy, an order of plants in the Fragmenta me- 

 thodi naturalis of Limutus. 



Suffrutex, an under shrub. 



Sulcatus caulis, culmus, a stalk deeply furrowed lengthways. 



Superilua polygamia, superfluous, the second order in the 

 class Syngenesia. 



Superusy/o*, when the receptacle of the flower stands above 

 the germen. 



Supra-axillaris pednnculus, the footstalk of a flower whose 

 insertion is above the- angle formed by the branch. 



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