362 A MANUAL OF MOSSES 



Squarrulose, a lesser degree of squarrose. 



Stegocarpous, with the capsule operculate. 



Stipitatc, mounted on a short stalk. 



Stoloniferous, bearing slender, creeping and usually minutely- 

 leaved secondary stems or branches. 



Stomata, breathing pores, or openings, in the epidermis. 



Stomatose, bearing stomata. 



Striate, marked with fine longitudinal lines or ridges. 



Striolate, being very finely striate. 



Strumose, furnished with a struma or unsymmetrical swelling at 

 the base of the capsule, goitre-like. 



Sub-, as a prefix commonly used to denote the idea of somewhat 

 or slightly. 



Subulate, awl-like. 



Silicate, longitudinally grooved. 



Synoicous, with the antheridia and archegonia mixed together in 

 the same flower. 



Terete, cylindrical or tapering. 



Terrestrial, growing on earth. 



Tessellate, checkered. 



Tomentose, covered with soft matted hairs or tomentum. 



Trabeculae, the more or less projecting plates on the inner side 

 of the peristome-teeth. 



Trabecttlate, furnished with trabeculae. 



Truncate, with the apical portion more or less squarely cut off. 



Tubulose, tube-like. 



Tumid, swollen, turgid. 



Turbinate, top-shaped. 



Turgid, more or less rigidly swollen as from internal pressure, 

 tumid. 



Umbonate, with a slight projection in the center like the boss of 



a shield. 

 Uncinate, hook-shaped. 

 Unilateral, one-sided. 

 Unistratose, (cells) in one layer. 



Urceolate, urn-like, contracted at or below the mouth. 

 Utricles, applied to the large hyaline cells of the leaves of 



S phagnum. 

 Vaginate, surrounded by a sheath. 

 Vagimile, a small sheath, the modified remains of the lower part 



of the archegonium surrounding the base of the seta. 

 Ventral, the surface of the leaf facing the stem, as ordinarily 



situated. 

 Ventricose, bulging on one side. 

 Vermicular, worm-shaped. 



