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ftill, quippe bos pra maae\ lank, lean, or per- 

 haps, drawn up as if hide-bound : at leaf!:, I 

 know of no other meaning to this word that 

 can poffibly be applied to a leaf, unlefs we de- 

 rive it from Jiriga, a ridge, but then it will be 

 difficult to xaiktjlyigofum of it. 



STROBILUS, a pine-apple ; a Perkarpium 

 formed from an Amentum. Linnseus's term for 

 the Conus of other botanifts. 



STYLUS [from s-yXo?, columna, a pillar] 

 that. part of the P'l/iillim which elevates the Sti- 

 gma from the Germen. Linnseus, in his fyftem 

 of the generation of plants, affimulates this or- 

 gan to the Vagina or Tuba Falloplana in the 

 females of the animal creation. 



SUB, in compofition, for/>rr, almoft; e.g. 

 fubcordatum^ fubovatum, nearly cordatum, nearly o- 

 vatum, &c. ; but when compounded with a term 

 of number, it fignifies mo^ commonly, as appli- 

 ed to the Narciffus poetkus, Spatha fubunijlora. 



SUBDI VISUS CauUs, a fpecies of the Caulis 

 compofitus in which the branches are irregularly 

 fubdivided, fubdivifus in ramos abfque ordine, 



SUBEROSUS CauUs> folm {fub, & crod<>r. 



