376 GLOSSAEY. 



Spinulose. Furnished with diminutive spines. 



Hquarrose. Rough, with spreading or projecting points. 



Stamen. The anther with its filament, or the anther alone when sessile. 



Staminodium. An abortive stamen. 



Standard. The upper petal of a papilionaceous corolla. 



Stellate. Arranged like the rays or points of a star. 



Stigma. That part of the carpel which receives the pollen for the fertilisation of the 



ovules; it is usually situate at the top of the style. 

 Stigmatiferous . Bearing stigmatic cells. 

 Stigmatose. Of or relating to a stigma. 

 Stipella. A secondary stipule, sometimes found on compound leaves at the points 



where the leaflets are inserted. 

 Stipellate. Having stipellse. 

 Stipe or Stipes. A stalk-like support. 

 Stipitate. Borne on a special stipe or stalk. 

 Stipulate. Having stipules. 



Stipule. A leaf or scale-like appendage at the base of the leaf-stalk. 

 Stolon. A trailing basal branch that is disposed to take root at the tip, or at 



intervals. 

 StricB. Fine superficial furrows or thread-like lines. 

 Striate. Marked with parallel longitudinal lines, either slightly raised or merely 



discoloured. 

 Strict. Very straight, narrow, and upright, or close. 

 Strigillose. Slightly strigose. 

 Strigose. Covered with rather short, stiff hairs, which lie close along the surface, all 



in the same direction. 

 Strophiolate. Having a strophiole, 



Strophiole. An appendage similar to an aril, originating at or near the micropyle. 

 Style. That portion of a pistil or carpel between the ovary and the stigma. 

 Stylopodium. A style expanded at its base into a disk which crowns the ovary. 

 Suh (in composition) has the force of " almost," " not quite," " imperfectly." 

 Hubulate. Awl-shaped. 

 Succulent. Thick, soft, and juicy, 

 Suffrutescent. Having the lower part slightly woody. 

 Suffruticose. Applied to undershrubs or plants in which the flowering branches, 



forming a considerable portion of the plant, die down after flowering, but leave a 



more or less prominent perennial and woody base. 

 Superior. Growing or placed above, as the upper petal in the corolla of a lateral 



flower. The usual application of the term is to the ovary when free from the 



calyx ; to the calyx when its limb is united with the ovary, so that the calyx 



appears to be above the ovary ; to the radicle of the embryo when pointing 



towards the apex of the fruit. 

 Suture. Applied to the line or seam formed by the union of two margins in any part 



of a plant ; more especially applied to the seam of a dehiscent carpel where the 



valves unite. 

 Syngenesious. Applied to anthers cohering longitudinally by their margins. 



Terete. Cylindrical, or nearly so. 



Ternate. (1) Applied to branches when three proceed from the same node on the 

 same side of the stem; (2) applied to leaflets, segments, lobes, or veins of 

 leaves when three in number and starting from the same point. 



Ternatisect. Cut into three lobes or divisions. 



Testa. The outer coat of the seed. 



