GLOSSARY. XXUl 



Stigmatic disk ; a broad surface at the top of the style, or form- 

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

 Stipe ; the stalk o Ferns up to the lowest pinna. 

 Styndes ; leaflike appendages at the base of the petiole. 

 Stipulodes ; spines beneath the whorls of branches in Chara. 

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



at intervals. 

 Stoloniferous ; having stoles. 



Stomaies ; minute organic openings in the skin of plants. 

 Strapshaped ; not very narrow nor long, and with nearly parallel 



sides. 

 Streak; a straight line of peculiar colour or structure, or a 



furrow. 

 Striee ; very slight furrows or ridges. 

 Striate ; with slender streaks or furrows. 

 Striped; having, coloured streaks. 

 Stripes ; the vittse of Umbellifers. 

 Style ; the space between the ovary and stigma. 

 Stylopode ; a fleshy disk crowning the ovary and supporting the 



style of UmbeUifers. 

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



nearly round. 

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



long narrow triangle. 

 Sucker; a stem produced at the end of an underground shoot. 

 Superior ; above any thing ; a calyx is superior when its tube is 



wholly attached to the ovary, half-superior when attached 



only to the lower half of it ; an ovary is superior when 



wholly free from the calyx ; a part of a flower placed next 



to the axis. 

 Suspended ovules hang down from near the top of the ovary. 

 Suture ; the line of junction of similar organs cohering. 

 Swordshaped; very long, narrow, nearly paraUel-sided, sharp- 

 edged, acute. 

 Sympode; a stem formed of a series of superposed branches so 



as to resemble a continuous axis. 

 Syncarpous ; fruit formed of cohering carpels. 

 Syngenesious flowers form a head and have 5 stamens with 



united anthers. 



TaiVefZ; having a long slender point. 



Tassel-like ; resembling a silken tassel or painter's camel's-hair 



pencil. 

 Tendril; a twisting slender organ for laying hold of objects. 

 Ter,ete ; having a nearly round transverse section. 

 Ternate ; growing in threes about the same point of a stem. 



