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Surculose: producing suckers, or shoots resembling them. 



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



summit of the cell which contains them; p. 122, fig. 269. 

 Sutural : belonging or relating to a suture. 



Suture: the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together ; p. 117. 

 Sward-shaped: vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tapering above to a 



point; as those of Iris, fig. 133. 



Symmetrical Flower : similar in the number of parts of each set ; p. 89. 

 Syndntherous, or Syngenesious: where stamens are united by their anthers ; p. 1 12, 



fig. 229. 



Syncdrpous (fruit or pistil) : composed of several carpels consolidated into one. 

 System, p. 195. 

 Systematic Botany : the study of plants after their kinds ; p. 3. 



Taper-pointed: same as acuminate; p. 60, fig. 103. 



Tap-root : a root with a stout tapering body ; p. 32. 



Tawny : dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Tax6nomy : the part of Botany which treats of classification. 



Te'gmen : a name for the inner seed-coat. 



Tendril: a thread-shaped body used for climbing, p. 38: it is either a branch, 



as in Virginia Creeper, fig. 62 ; or a part of a leaf, as in Pea and Vetch, 



fig. 127. 



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

 Terminal : borne at, or belonging to, the extremity or summit. 

 Terminology : the part of the science which treats of technical terms ; same as 



Te'rnate : in threes ; p. 66. Ternately : in a tcrnate way. 



Testa: the outer (and usually the harder) coat or shell of the seed; p. 134. 



Tetra- (in words of Greek composition) : four; as, 



Tetracdccous : of four cocci or carpels. 



Tetradynamous : where a flower has six stamens, two of them shorter than th 



other four, as in Mustard, p. 92, 112, fig. 188. 



Tetragonal: four-angled. Tetrdgynous: with four pistils or styles; p. 116. 

 Tetrdmerous : with its parts or sets in fours. 

 Tetrdndrous: with four stamens; p. 112. 

 Theca : a case ; the cells or lobes of the anther. 

 Thorn : see spine ; p. 39. 

 Thread-shaped: slender and round, or roundish like a thread; as the filament ot 



stamens generally. 

 Throat : the opening or gorge of a monopetalous corolla, &c., where the borde* 



and the tube join, and a little below. 



Thyrse or Thyrsus: a compact and pyramidal panicle; p. 81. 

 Tdmentose : clothed with matted woolly hairs (tomentum). 

 Tongue-shaped: long, flat, but thickish, and blunt. 

 Toothed: furnished with teeth or short projections of any sort on tne margin* 



used especially when these are sharp, like saw-teeth, and do not point for, 



wards; p. 61, fig. 113. 



Top-shaped: shaped like a top, or a cone with its apex downwards. 

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