XXU GJ-OSSAEr. 



^me ; a. stiff sharp -woody persistent thorn. 



Spinous ; furnished with spines. 



Spinulose; with small, often vei-y minute spines, or prickles. 



Spiral vessels ; fine tubes: composed of membrane with spirally 



twisted fibres internally, ■ ■ , > - . 



Sporides-^ the seedlike reproductive bodies of flowerless plants. 

 Spur ; a tubular extension of the lower part, of a petal or gamo- 



petalous corolla ; a looseiprolongation of the base of a leaf 



beyond its point of attachment. 

 Spurred ; furnished with a spur. 

 Squarrose ; covered with appendages spreading at right angles 



or more.' ,'i! ■ • ■ '' '■ i - i ■ ■ ■■> 



Stamen ; the male organ of a flower, usually formed of a fila- 

 ment and aither; , . ■ ' , ■ ' 

 Staminode ; a scale on the inside of the upper lip of some Scro- 



: phulariaceee. ' . i .1 , 



Standard; the upper or posterior petal of a Pea-flower which is 



outside the others in the bud. , . 

 Starlike ; applied to flowers of which the petals are narrow an«i 



distant and radiant like a * .,' : 

 St,ellate ; radiating from a centre like a star. 

 Stellulate -^ like mirAite staxa. ■',..' :, 



Stigma ; the cellular part at the top of a carpel or style to which 



the pollen adheres. 

 Stigmatic dishy abroad surface at the top of the style, or foim-^ 



ing the whole of it, upon which the stigmas are placed. 

 Stipe ; the stalk of Ferns up to the, lowest pinna. 

 Stipules ; leaflike' appendages at the base of the petiole. 

 Stole ; a lax trailing, shoot fromj the crown of the root, rooting 



iat.ihtervala<,' , .. 

 Stohniferoim; having stoles. , ;, , 



Stomates; minute organic openings in the. skin of plants. 

 i^ra^sAoped;, not, very, narrow not long, and with nearly parallel 



sides. 

 Streak; a straight lijie of peculiar' colour or structure, or a 



", 'fun'QW. , ■ ■',■,;■,, ' , 



Stria ; very slight furrows or ridges. 



Striate ; with slender, streaks or firrows. 



Striped; having coloured streaks. 



Stripes ; the vittse of Umbellifers. 



StyMv the space 'between the ovary' and stigma. 



Stylopode ; a fleshy disk crowning the ovary and supporting the 



styles of Umbellifers, , . 



Sub ; in coniposition means a near approach to ; as subrotund is 

 _, .. nearly round. ^ .,. : . . 



Subulate ; awlshaped, tapering from the base to a fine point, a 

 ;^;„.;Jftng-narr/i>'W:triaj)gle. ' . , . , !' 



