XKV1 GLOSSARY 
STRAGGLING (divaricatus), spreading irregularly. 
STRAP-SHAPED. See ligulatus. 
STRIATUS, striated, marked by longitudinal lines. 
SrRicrvs, very straight. 
STRIGOSE, covered with stiff hairs. 
STROBILUS, a cone, or amentum, a form of fruit, the carpella of which are 
scale-like, spread open, and bear naked seeds, the scales are 
thin, and searcely united, or thicker, woody, and cohere into a 
tuberculated mass, as the fruit of the pinus, &e. 
Srytx (cryos,) the elongation of the ovary which supports the stigma. 
Sup, prefixed to a word, signifies somewhat, as sub-viridis, somewhat green. 
SUBMERSED (submersus), buried beneath water, 
SuBRAMOSUS, somewhat branched. 
SUBROTUNDUS, somewhat round. 
SUBULATUS, awl-shaped, linear, very narrow, with a Lroad base, tapering to 
a very fine point. 
SuccuLEntT (succulentus), very cellular, and juicy. 
SuckER. See stem. 
SuFFRUTEX, plants having branches of a woody texture, which perish 
annually. 
Suucatus, furrowed, marked by longitudinal channels. 
Superior, a calyx, &c., which arises or seems to arise from the top of the 
ovary is said to be superior. 
SusPENDED, when an ovule hangs from a little below the summit. 
SuruRAL, a fruit dehiscing without any dissepiments, such as the Pea, is 
called sutural. 
SuTuRE, the part where the fruit naturally opens. 
SwoRD-sHAPED. See ensiform. 
Syncarpous, when carpels are united into an undivided body. 
TAIL-POINTED. See candatus. 
TAPER-POINTED- See acuminatus. 
TENDRIL. See cirrhus. 
TEREs, terete or taper, the opposite of angular. 
TERMINAL, anything arising from the end, a flower on the top of a stem is 
terminal. 
TERNATE (fernatus), when three things arise from a common axis. 
TESSELLATED, colours so arranged as to resemble a tessellated pavement. 
TxsTa (festa, an earthen pot), the integuments of the seed. 
TETRADYNAMOUS, flowers having six stamens, four of which are longer than 
the other, two are so called. 
THECA (Snxn, a sheath or case,) the hollow urn, or cup-shaped bodies of 
eryptogamie plants, which contain the sporules or reproductive 
organs, ; 
THALAMUS (Sarupos, lodging or store-room,) the receptacle upon which 
the carpels are seated; it is sometimes called torus. It is the 
