448 GLOSSARY. 



Stem. A general supporter of leaves, flowers and fruit. 



Steviless. Having no stem properly so called, but only a scape. 



Sterile. Barren. 



Stigma. The summit or extremity of the pistil. 



Stipe. The stem of a fern or fungus , also the stem of the down 

 of seeds; also a particular stalk of germs, seeds &c., which 

 is superadded to the pedicel; as in the Coptis trifolia. Med. 



Bot. n. 5. 



Stipitatc. Supported by a stipe. 



Stipule. A leafy appendage situated at the base of petioles or 



leaves. 

 Stipular. Belonging to stipules. 

 Stoloniferous. Having scions or running shoots. 

 Striate. Marked with fine parallel lines. 

 Strigose. Bristly. 

 Strobile. A cone; an ament with woody or rigid scales, as iu 



the fruit of pines, firs, &c. 

 Style. The part of the pistil which is between the germ and 



stigma. 

 Suh. A particle prefixed to various terms, to imply the existence 



of a quality in a diminutive or inferior degree, as 

 Subacute. Somewhat acute. Less than acute, &:c. 

 Subcoriaceous. Somewhat like leather. 

 Subcrose. Like cork. 

 Svbsessile. Nearly sessile. 

 Subserrate. Slightly serrate, &c. 



Subulate. Awl shaded. Narrow, stiff, and sharp pointed. 

 Succulent. Juicy. 



Sucker. A shoot from the root, or lower part of the stem. 

 Suffi-uticose. Somewhat shrubby. Shrubby at base. 

 Sulcate. Furrowed. 



Supradecompovnd. More than decompound. Many times sub- 

 divided. 

 Suture. The line or seam formed by the junction of two valves 



of a seed vessel. 

 Synanthous. When leaves and flowers appear at the same time 



as in the Apple tree. 

 Syncarpium. A fruit in which the ovaries cohere into a solid 



mass, on a slender receptacle, as in Magnolia. 



