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{Nwmbei-s refer to paragraphs.) 

 Spore. The reproductive body of cryptogams, containing no embryo, and not 



always the direct result of a sexual process : analogous to a seed. 428. 

 Stamen. That part of the flower which bears the pollen. 144. 

 Staminate. Said of flowers which have andrcecium but no gynoecium. 152c. 

 Staminoid. Resembling a stamen. 

 Staminodium. A sterile, or antherless, stamen: a body standing in the place 



of a stamen and presumably representing a stamen. 230a. 

 Standard. The large upper expanded petal of a papilionaceous flower: vex- 



illum: banner. 237. 

 Stem. The ascending or aSrial axis of » plant, in distinction to the root, 



leaves, etc. : trunk. 

 Stigma. The expanded end of a pistil, upon which the pollen falls and 



germinates. 143. 

 Stipe. The stem of a fern frond (424a), or of a mushroom (429). 

 Stipel. Secondary stipules: appendages of leaflets. 91. 

 Stipule. An appendage of a leaf or leaf-blade at the base of the blade or 



on the petiole. 87. 

 Stolon. A layer which bends over, or is not prostrate, taking root at the tip, 



or near it. 461. 

 Strict. Straight: said of very erect-growing plants, particularly if the head 



is narrow and the growth is indeterminate. 

 Strobile. Cone. 

 Style. The more or less elongated portion which, in many pistils, joins the 



ovary and stigma. 143. 

 Subtend. To stand under or at the side of, forming an axil, as a scale sub- 

 tending a flower. Pigs. 173£, 222. 

 Sucker. A sprout or shoot arising from an underground root or stem (463) : 



also, an adventitious shoot in the top of a plant, especially a vigorous 



shoot. 

 Superior. Said of the ovary when it is free: above, in position. 169. 

 Suture. Juncture or place of union. 305a. 

 Syconium. Fruit of the kind represented by the iig. 369. 

 Symmetrical. Parts in each of the four series in the flower of the same 



number, or in multiples of the lowest number. 2116. 

 Syn. United or simultaneous; used only in combinations. 

 Synanthous. Stamens and pistils maturing simultaneously in any flower. 193. 

 Syncarpous. Carpels, or simple pistils, united. 305. 

 Syngenesious. In a ring: applied to the anthers of compositous flowers, 



because they are united in a ring around the styles. 200. 

 Tap-root. A central or leading root, running deep into the soil. 499. 

 Teratology. The science or study of monstrosities. 228a, 

 Terete. Cylindrical, 



