ey 



100,000 to 157,000 stomata on both 

 sides, but leas above than below; E. 

 BaUejiana (Rough Stringy bark), 68,000 

 to 104,000; E. tessellaris (Moreton 

 Bay Ash), 116,000 to 145,000, and 

 153,000 to 166,000. 



Stomatif'erus— Furnished with stomates. 



Stool — The gardeners name for a plant 

 from which ""layers "are propagated, 

 by bending its branches so that after 

 twisting, or making a out below one of 

 the buds, they may be inserted into the 

 soil to take root and form additional 

 plants. 



Strami'neus — Straw-coloured ; yellow with 

 a slight admixture of grey. 



Stra'tum — A layer or lamina composed of 

 any kind of tissue. Stra'tosb — 

 Arranged in layers, or strata. 



Straw'bereies — Tor these plants the 

 ground should be well and deeply dug 

 or trenched, adding manure liberally. 

 Plant in rows 2 ft. apart, and IJ ft. 

 from plant to plant. 



Strep'tooab'pds — Where the fruit is 

 marked by spirally arranged stripes. 

 3o of other combinations with 

 "Strepta." 



Stri'a —.A groove, furrow, or streak. 

 Steia'ted, Stria'tus (Channelled)— 

 Marked with striae. 



Strio'tus — Perfectly " straight.'' 



Stei'ga — A small straight hair or scale. 

 Stri'gilis, Strigose'; Stbigo'sus— 

 Covered with strigae; synonym for 

 "Hispid." 



Strobila'ceus, Steobilif'erus — When 

 flowers, furnished with large bracts, are 

 so arranged as to give the inflorescence 

 the appearance of a strobilus or cone. 

 Strobilinus — Either growing on a 

 • cone, or having the general aspect of a 

 cone. 



STEo'BiLrs— A cone. An amentum, the 

 carpella of which are scale-like, spread 

 open, and bear naked seeds ; sometimes 

 the scales are thin, with little cohesion ; 

 but they often are woody, and cohere 

 into a single tuberoulated mass. The 

 galbulus differs from the strobilus only 

 in being round, and having the heads 

 of the carpella much enlarged. The 

 fruit of the Juniper is a galbulus, with 

 fleshy coalescent carpella. The fruit of 

 Pmus illustrates the strobilus. 



Stro'ma— Either, generally, the part of 

 acotyledonous plants which bears or 

 encloses the fructification ; or more 

 restrictedly, limited to the fleshy 

 thallus of certain Eungi, in which the 

 perithecia are imraetjed. 



Steom'bus-shapbd, Strombulif ercs, 



Steombulipok'mis — Spirally twjsted 

 like a cork-screw or some shells, as some 

 pods of Medicago. 



Stro'phes— A spiral. Any of the various 

 spirals exhibited hy the disposition of 

 leaves round an axis^ 



Steophio'le, Strophi'ola, Strophi'olbs 

 —Synonym for " Carunoula," a fleshy 

 appendage proceeding from the testa 

 by the side of or near the f unicle. (See 

 the seeds of Hardenbergia monophylla, 

 the Bushman's Sarsaparilla. ) 



Steu'ma (A wen) — An apophysis which is 

 restricted to one side of the base of a 

 moss theca. A swelling at the point 

 where the petiole is connected with the 

 limb in certain leaves. Strdmi'pkrus, 

 Strumo'sus — Eurnished with a struma. 

 Stbumipob'mis — Having the general 

 appearance of a struma. Steumc- 

 to'SDS— Furnished with a small struma. 



Stu'pa (Tow) — A tuft or mass of hair or 

 fine filament matted together. Stu'- 

 PEUS, Stu'posb, Sthpo'sus — Composed 

 of matted filaments. 



Stt'gius (Infernal)— Said of plants which 

 grow in foul water ; in allusion to the 

 Styx. 



Stilb, Sty'lus — A support frequently in- 

 terposed between the stigma and 

 ovary, and originating in the length- 

 ening out of a part of the latter. 

 Styliitoemis — Resembling a style. 

 Stylinus — Belonging to a style. 

 Styhscus — A chord of peculiar tissue, 

 which descends from the stigma 

 within the style down to the ovary. 

 STYtODEUS — Furnished with a style. 

 Stylopodidm — A fleshy disk at the 

 base of each of the styles of the Um- 

 belliferse. Stylostegium— A peculiar 

 form of cuculus surrounding the 

 style. 



Sty'lds — The style ; also the ostiolum of 

 certain Eiingi. 



Sttp'tio— Having the power to staunch 

 blood. This property is ascribed to 

 the roots of the European Water 

 Lily. 



Sua'vb, Suaveolens — Having a sweet 

 fragrance, as the flowers of Oymbidium 

 guave, or the'Native Tobacco, Nicotiana 

 suaveolens. 



Sub (About or near to) — Somewhat. 

 When compounded with any botanical 

 term, implies a near approach to the 

 condition which that term more pre- 

 cisely designates. Thus : — SuB- 

 AOADLBS — When the stem is scarcely 

 apparent. SuB-APicnLA'Eis — When 

 the summit of a stfem is a little pro- 

 longed, without branch or leaf, beyond 

 the, spike. Scb-difi'Or'mis— Possess- 

 ing a slight degree of irregularity. 



SUBERO'SUS — Of the nature of cork ; or 

 having some general appearance of 

 cork. Example, the Cork tree, 

 Quercus s^.iher. 



SuBlo'ULUM— The underlayer. 



SbbIiA'tus- When the ovary either has 

 or seems to have a support. 



Submbr'ged, Suembesi'bilis, Submer'sus 

 — Growing entirely beneath the surface 

 of water. 



Sub-ni'gee — Synonym for "Nigricans." 



Sub-seeea'tus — Synonym for " Ser- 

 rulatus." 



Sub-speoibs — Applied to some particular 

 form, which may be considered as a 

 more or less permanent variety of some 

 species, rather than as characterising a 

 distinct species. 



Sub'ulatb, Subula'tus, Subdlipor'mis— 

 Somewhat the shape of a shoemaker's 

 awl; awl-shaped. Sdeuliferus- Fur- 

 nished with long awl-shaped spinesi 



