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GLOSSARY. 



Solitary i standing alone; one only in a 

 place. 



Spadix. A sort of dense flowered, fleshy 

 or club-like Spike, usually enveloped 

 by, or proceeding from, a sheathing invo- 

 lucre called a Spathe. 



Span ; a measure of 9 inches. 



Spat/iaceous ; having a spathe, or resem- 

 bling a spathe. 



/Spathe. A sheathing kind of bract, com- 

 mon calyx, or involucre, open on one 

 side, often containing the spadix. 



Spatkulate, or spdtulate; like a spatula; 

 obovate-oblong, or larger and rounded at 

 the end, and tapering to the base. 



Species. The lowest permanent division of 

 natural objects, in a systematic arrange- 

 ment ; a group comprising all similar 

 individuals. 



Specific; belonging to, or distinguishing 

 the species. 



Sphacelate ; dark colored, as if gangrenous, 

 or dead. 



Sphagnous; full of bog-moss,or Sphagnum. 



Spicate ; in the form, or after the manner 

 of a spike. 



Spike. A kind of inflorescence in which 

 the flowers are sessile on the sides of a 

 long common peduncle, or rachis. 



Spikelet. A little spike, or subdivision of 

 a compound spike. 



Spindle-shaped ; see fusiform. 



Spine. A thorn ; a sharp process originat- 

 ing in the wood i. e., pointed abortive 

 branch. 



Spinellose ; armed with minute spines. 



Spinescent; becoming thorny, or inclin- 

 ing to be thorny. 



Spinose ; thorny ; armed with thorns. 



Spinulose ; covered with small spines. 



Spores, or sporules. The seminal equiva 

 lents, or analogues of seeds, in crypto- 

 gamous plants. 



Spur. A tapering hollow production of the 

 base of a petal, or sepal, usually called 

 a nectary. 



Spurred; having a spur, or spur-like elon- 

 gations. 



Sguamose; scaly; covered more or less 

 with scales. 



Sfuarrose ; jagged ; having spreading tips, 

 or divaricate points, all round, as the 

 scales of some involucres. 



Stamen. The organ of a flower which pre- 

 pares the pollen, usually consisting of a 

 filament and anther, and situated be- 

 tween the corolla and pistils. 



Staminate flower. Having stamens, but 

 not pistils. 



Staminifcrous ; bearing or supporting the 

 stamens. 



Staminodia. Imperfect organs occupying 

 the position of, and resembling sta- 

 mens, being the transition stage between 

 petals and stamens. 



Stellate ; like a star ; arranged like the rays 

 of a star. 



Stellular; radiating after the manner of 

 little stars. 



Stellular pubescence. Compound or fascic- 

 ulate hairs, with the branches spreading 

 like rays. 



Stem. The main axis or body of a plant ; 

 the common supporter of branches, 

 leaves, flowers and fruit. 



Stemless ; having no visible or aerial stem : 

 applied to plants where the stem is sup- 

 pressed, or so short as to be apparently 

 wanting. 



Sterile; barren, or unproductive; applied 

 to flowers which produce no fruit. 



Stigma. The summit of the style, or that 

 portion of the pistil through which the 

 pollen acts. 



Stigmatic; belonging, or relating to the 

 stigma. 



Stigmat/ferous, or stigmatose ; bearing, or 

 belonging to, the stigma. 



Stipe. A little pedicel, or footstalk, of 

 seeds, &c. 



Stipellate ; furnished with stipelles, i. e., 

 the stipules of leaflets, in compound 

 leaves. 



Stipelles. The stipular appendages, or little 

 stipules, of leaflets, in compound leaves. 



St'tpitate; having a stipe ; supported on a 

 little pedicel. 



Stipitiform ; resembling a stipe. 



Stipular ; belonging or relating to stipules. 



Stipulate; furnished with stipules. 



Stipules. Leaflets, or leaf-like appendages, 

 at the base of a petiole, or leaf. 



Stoles (i.e. stolones corruptly stools'). The 

 shoots, suckers, or oif-sets, from the base 

 of the stem, or roots of plants : usually 

 applied to young winter grain, as wheat. 

 &c. See Tiller. 



Stoloniferous ; having suckers, offsets, or 

 running shoots (stolones), from the base 

 of the stem, or crown of the root. 



Striae. Fine parallel ridges or lines. 



Striate\ marked with longitudinal lines, 

 or stripes. 



Stt'iate-fiulcate ; scored with minute longi- 

 tudinal grooves and ridges. 



Strict ; straight and rigidly upright. 



Sl/'igose ; armed with spreading bristly 

 hairs, which taper from base to apex. 



Strobile. The cone, or collective fruit, of 

 the Pines, Firs, &c. 



StropJiiolc. A Uttl' crmcn, or fungous ap- 

 pendage to the hilum of a seed. 



Style. The columnar (usually slender) 

 portion of the pistil, between the ovary 

 and the stigma, sometimes wanting. 



Styliferom ; bearing or producing a style, 

 or styles. 



Stylopoclium. Tliofoot or thickened base 

 of the style (or united styles), at the 

 junction with the epigynous disk, as in 

 UMKELLIFER'F. 



Sd 7 > a preposition signifying under, or a 

 dinixion, as a *SW&-~class, *SV 7 ; -order, &c.: 

 also employed as a diminutive, or quali- 



