GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 223 



Suchera, shoots from subterranean branches, 39. 



Suffrutescent, slightly shrubby or woody at the base only, 39. 



Suffruiicose, rather more than suffrutescent, 37, 39. 



Suleate, grooved longitudinally with deep furrows. 



Superior, above, 96 ; sometimes equivalent to posterior, 96. 



Supernumerary Buds, 30, 31. 



Supervolute, plaited and convolute in bud, 97. 



Supine, lying flat, with face upward. 



Supra-axillary, borne above the axil, as some buds, 31. 



Supra-decompound, many times compounded or divided. 



Surc^dose, producing suckers (SurcuK) or shoots resembling them. 



Suspended, hanging down. Suspended ovules or seeds hang from the very summit 



of the cell which contains them. 

 Sutural, belonging or relating to a suture. 



Suture, the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together, 106. 

 Sword-shaped, applied to narrow leaves, with acute parallel edges, tapering above. 

 Syconium, the fig-fruit, 124. 

 Syhestrine, growing in woods. 



Symmetrical Flower, similar in the number of parts of each set, 82. 

 Sympetalous, same as gamopetalous. 

 Sympode, Sympodium, a stem composed of a series of superposed branches in such 



a way as to imitate a simple axis, as in Grape-vine. 

 Synantherous or Syngenesious, where stamens are united by their anthers, 100. 

 Syncarpous (fruit or pistil), composed of several carpels consolidated into one. 

 Synonym, an equivalent superseded name. 

 Synsepalous, same as gamosepalous. 

 System (artificial and natural), 182, 183. 

 Systematic Botany, the study of plants after their kinds, 9. 



Tabescent, wasting or shrivelling. 



Tail, any long and slender prolongation of an organ. 



Taper-pointed, same as acuminate, 54.. 



Taproot, a root with a stout tapering body, 32-35. 



Tawny, dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Taxonomy, the part of botany which treats of classification. 



Tegmen, a name for the inner seed-coat. 



Tendril, a thread-shaped organ used for climbing, 40. 



Terete, long and round; same as cylindrical, only it may taper. 



Terminal, home at, or belonging to, the extremity or summit. 



Terminology treats of technical terms ; same as" Glossology, 181. 



Ternate, Ternaiely, in threes. 



Tessellate, in checker-work. 



Testa, the outer (and usually the harder) coat or shell of the seed, 125. 



Testaceous, the color of unglazed pottery. 



Tetra- (in words of Greek composition), four; as, Teiracoccous, of four cocci. 



Tetradynamous, where a flower has six stamens, two shorter than the four, 101. 



Tetragonal, four-angled. Tetmgynous, with four pistils or styles. Tetramerous, 



with its parts or sets in fours. Tetrandrous, with four stamens, 100. 

 Teiraspore, a quadruple spore, 169. 



Thalamaflorous, with petals and stamens inserted on the torus or Thalamus. 

 Thallophyta, Thallophytes, 165. 

 Thallus, a stratum, in place of stem and leaves, 165. 

 Theca, a case; the cells or lobes of the anther. 

 Thecaphore, the stipe of a carpel, 113. 

 Thorn, an indurated pointed branch, 41, 42. 

 Thread-shaped, slender and round or roundish, like a thread. 

 7'hroat, the opening or gorge of a monopetalous corolla, &c., where the border and 



(Jae tube loin, and a little below. 89. 



