GLOSSARY. 



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



Stipulate : furnished \vith stipules. 



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



Stolons : trailing or reclined and rooting shoots. 



Stolonifcrous : producing stolons. 



Stomate {hoXiw stoma, plural stomata) : the breathing-pores of leaves, kc. 



Strap-s/uqjed : long, flat, and narrow. 



Striate, or striated : marked with slender longitudinuiis grooves or channels 



(Latin stria:). 

 Strict : close and narrow ; straight and narrow. 



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

 Strohildceous : relating to or resenilding a 

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



and of the Pine. 

 Str6p)hiole : same as caruncle. Stro})hiolate : furjiished witli a strophiule. 

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

 Style : a part of the pistil which bears the stigma. 

 Stylop6dium : an epigynous disk, or an enlai-g<'ment at the base of the style, 



found in umbelliferous and some other plants. 

 Sub; as a prefix ; about, nearly, somewhat ; as suhcordate, .slightly cordate : 



suhserrate, slightly serrate,: subaxillary, just beneath the axil, &c., &c. 

 Suberose : corky or cork-like in texture. 

 Subulate : awl-shaped ; tapering from a broadish or thick ish 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 with deep furrows. 

 Supervolute : plaited and convolute in bud. 

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

 Surculose : producing suckers, or shoots resembling them. 

 Susjyended : hanging down, Suspendeil ovules or seeds hang from the very 



summit of the cell which contains them. 

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

 Sword-shaped : vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tai)ering above to a 



point ; as those of L'is. 

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

 Syndntherous, or Syngcnesious : where stamens are united by tlieir anthers. 

 Sync(iri)ous (fruit or pistil) : composed of several carpels consolidatetl into 



one. 



Taper-pointed : same as acuminate. 



Tap-root : a root with a stout tapering body. 



Tawny : dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Tendril : a thread-shaped body used for climbing : it is either a branch, as in 



Virginia Creeper, or a part of a leaf, as in Pea anil Vetch. 

 Terete : long and round ; same as cylindrical, only it may taper. 

 Terminal: borne at, or belonging to, the extremity or smnniit, 

 Ternate : in threes. Ternatcly : in a teruate way. 



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