232 GLOSSARY. 



Station: the particular place, or kind of situation, in which a plant naturally 



ocpurs. 

 Stellate, Stellular: starry or star-like; where several similar parts spread oat 



from a common centre, like a star. 

 Stem, p. 35, &c. 



Stemless ; destitute or apparently destitute of stem. 

 Sterile : barren or imperfect ; p. 89. 



Stigma : the part of the pistil which receives the pollen ; p 87. 

 Sligmdtic, or Stigmatose : belonging to the stigma. 

 Stipe (Latin stipes) • the stalk of a pistil, &c., when it has any; the stem of a 



Mushroom. 

 Stipd : a stipule of a leaflet, as of the Bean, &c. 

 Siipe'ilate: furnished with stipels, as the Bean and some other Leguminous 



plants. 

 Stipitute: furnished with a stipe, as the pistil of Cleomc, fig. 276. 

 Stipulate : furnished with stipules. 



StiiAiles: the appendages one each side of the base of certain leaves ; p. 69. 

 Stolons: trailing or reclined and rooting shoots ; p. 37. 

 Stoloiiiferous : producing stolons. 



Stomate (Latin stoma, plural stomaia) : the breathing-pores of leaves, &c. ; p. 156. 

 Strap-shaped: long, fiat, and narrow; p. 106. 

 Striate, or Striated: marked with slender longitudinal grooves or channels 



(Latin strice). 

 Strict: close and naiTow ; straight and nanow. 



Strigtilose, Strigose : beset with stout and appressed, scale-like or rigid bristles. 

 Stroliildceous : relating to, or resembling a 

 Strdhile : a multiple fruit in the form of a cone or head, as that of the Hop and 



of the Pine; fig. 314, p. 133. 

 Strdphiole : same as caruncle. Strophiolate : furnished with a strophiolc. 

 Struma : a wen ; a swelling or protuberance of any organ. 

 Stgle: a part of the pistil which bears the stigma ; p. 86. 

 Sli/lopddiiim : an epigynous disk, or an enlargement at the base of the style, 



found in Umbelliforous and some other plants. 

 Sub-, as a prefix : about, nearly, somewhat ; as subcordate, slightly cordate ; ful- 



serrate, slightly sciTate : subaxillari/, just beneath the ajdl, use., &c. 

 Suberose ; corky or cork-like in texture. 

 Subclass, p. 177, 183. Suborder, p. 176. Subtribe, p. 177. 

 Subulate : awl-shaped ; tapering from a broadish or thickish base to a sharp 



point ; p. 68. 

 Succulent : juicy or pulpy. 



Suckers: shoots from subterranean branches ; p. 37. 

 Suffrut^scent : slightly shrubby or woody at the base only ; p. 36. 

 Sugar, p. 163. 



Sulcate: grooved longitudinally with deep furrows. 

 Supernumeran/ Buds: p. 26. 



Supdrvolute: plaited and convolute in bud; p. 110, fig. 225. 

 Supra-axillari/ : borno above the axil, as soma buds ; p. 26, fig. 53. 

 ^npi'a-deiiimiioiiiidi many timoB conuto'undod or divided^ 



