2 4 o EUCALYPTUS. 



Stipulate : furnished with stipules. 



Stipitate : furnished with a stipe, as the pistil of Cleome. 



Stipules : the appendages one each side of the base of certain leaves. 



Stolons : trailing or reclined and rooting shoots. 



Stoloniferous : producing stolons. 



Stomate (Latin stoma, plural stomata] : the breathing pores of leaves, etc. 



Strap-shaped : long, flat and narrow. 



Striate or Striated : marked with slender, longitudinal grooves or chan- 

 nels (Latin striae.} 



Strict: close and narrow ; straight and narrow. 



Strigillose, Strigose : beset with stout and appressed, scale-like or rigid 

 bristles. 



Strobilaceous : relating to or resembling a 



Strobile : a multiple fruit in the form of a cone or head, as that of the 

 Hop and of the Pine. 



Strophiole : same as caruncle. Strophiolate : furnished with a strophiole. 



Struma : a wen ; a swelling or protuberance of any organ. 



Style : 'a part of the pistil which bears the stig"ma. 



Stylopodium : an epigynous disk, or an enlargement at the base of the 

 style, found in Umbelliferous and some other plants. 



Sub-, as a prefix : about, nearly, somewhat ; as sub-cordate ', slightly cord- 

 ate ; sub-serrate, slightly serrate ; sub-axillary ; just beneath the axil, 

 etc., etc. 



Suberose : corky or cork-like in texture. 



Subulate : awl-shaped ; tapering from a broadish or thickish base to a 

 sharp point. 



Succulent : juicy or pulpy. 



Suckers : shoots from subterranean branches. 



Suffrutescent : slightly shrubby or woody at the base only. 



Sulcate : grooved longitudinally in long furrows. 



Supervolute : plaited and convulute in bud. 



Supra-axillary : borne above the axil, as some buds. 



Supra-decompound : many times compounded or divided. 



Surculose : producing suckers, or shoots resembling them. 



Suspended : hanging down. Suspended ovules or seeds hang from the 

 very summit of the cell which contains them. 



Sutural : belonging or relating to a suture. 



Suture : the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together. 



Sword- shaped : vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tapering above 

 to a point. 



Symmetrical Flower : similar in the number of parts of each set. 



Synantherous orSyngenesious: where stamens are united by their anthers. 



Syncarpous (fruit or pistil): composed of several carpels consolidated 

 into one. 



Systematic Botany : the study of plants after their kinds. 



