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Spicate — disposed on a spike. 

 Spiciform — like a spike. 

 Spinescent — ending in a spine. 

 Stellate — star-like. 

 Stipitate — having small stalks. 

 Stoloniferous — having suckers or 



runners (Stolons). 

 Striate — with fine longitudinal 



parallel veins. 

 Strigose — closely covered with 



bristles. 

 Subulate — awl shaped ; stouter 



than setaceous. 

 Suffrutescent — somewhat like a 



shrub. 

 SUlcate — grooved, furrowed, or 



fluted. 

 Supine — prostrate. 



Terete — cylindrical, circular in 

 cross section. 



Testa — seed coat. 



Thyrsoid — a compact inflores- 

 cence, thicker at the middle 

 and tapering at both ends. 



Tomentose — densely covered with 

 short soft tangled hairs. 



Trichotomous — with divisions im 

 threes. 



Trigonous — three angled, three- 

 cornered.' 



Trimerous — in three parts, or 

 parts in threes. 



Truncate — ending abruptly as if 

 cut off. 



Tuberculate — beset with smair 

 knobby projections. 



Turgid. — swollen, but not hollow^ 



Umbelled — arising . near one- 

 point, in an umbel. 



Ventral — pertaining to the front. 



Villose or Villous — shaggy, with 

 long soft hairs not inter- 

 woven. 



V iscous — V isoid — sticky. 



Viviparous — ■ producing young 

 plants instead of seed. 



Xerophilous — adapted to with- 

 standing drought. 



Xerophytes — plants which live 

 under dry conditions. 



