GLOSSARY. XXV 
SPATHULATE (spatulatus), oblong, with the lower end very much attenuated, 
as the leaf of the common daisy. 
SPH@RICUS, globose. 
Spike, a form of inflorescence, in which the flowers are sessile along a 
common axis. 
SPIKELET, a little spike. 
SPINDLE SHAPED. See fuciformis. 
Spine, a hardened leaf, bud, or abortive branch. 
Sprrnovs, spiny, furnished with spines. 
SPIRAL (spiralis), arranged in a spiral manner round some common axis, as 
the flowers of Spiranthes, 
Sporuus (c70e%, a seed,) the reproductive organs of cryptogamic plants 
analagous to the seeds of flowering plants. 
SPREADING. See patens. 
Spur, when a sepal or petal is prolonged backwards into a conical process. 
Squamosus, scaly, covered with small scale-like leaves. 
SQUARROSUS, when organs are spread out at right angles, or nearly so, from 
a common axis. 
STALEKLETs, short footstalks. 
SrameEn, the male apparatus of the flower consisting of filament, anther, and 
pollen. Stamens originate from the space between the base of 
the petals and the base of the ovary. 
STANDARD, the upper more expanded, usually erect petal, of a papilionaceous 
or butterfly-shaped corolla, often called veaillum. 
Srarry (stellate(, tufts of hairs diverging from the centre in a star-like 
manner. 
Srem (caulis), the ascending caudex of herbaceous plants or shrubs, which 
in trees is called the trunk. 
AERIAL, 
runner. See runner. 
sucker, a branch which proceeds from the neck of a plant beneath 
the surface of the ground, and becomes erect immediately that 
it emerges from it, producing leaves, branches, and at length 
roots from its base. 
offset. See offset. 
rootstock. See rootstock. 
pseudo bulb, an enlarged stem, resembling a tuber, from which it 
differs in being formed above ground, in having an epidermis 
that is often extremely hard, and in retaining upon its surface 
the sears of leaves which it once bore. 
STEMLESS. See acaulis, 
Sriama, the naked secreting surface at the upper extremity of the style. 
SrrpiraTE (séipitatus), anything elevated on a stalk, which is neither a 
petiole or a peduncle. 
STIPULES, appendages at the base or upon the petioles of the leaves 
usually on both sides, and are free as in Roses, or sheathing 
the stem, as in Polygonums, and are then called ochrea by 
Willdenow. 
STOMATES (rope, the mouth,) passages through the cuticle of plants 
which open into cavities in the subjacent cellular tissue. 
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