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GLOSSART 



atipulea. The appendages on each side of 

 the base of certain leaves. 



Sloloh, Trailing or reclined and rooting 

 shoots. 



Sioloniferous. Producing stolons. 



Strap-shaped, Long, flat, and narrow. 



Striate, Striated. Marked with slender 

 longitudinal grooves or channels. 



Strict. Close and narrow; straight and nar- 

 row. 



Strigose, Stngillose. Bisset with appressed, 

 rigid bristles or hairs. 



Strobilus. Cone; a multiple fruit in the 

 form of a cone or head, as in hop and pine; 

 sometimes written strobile. 



Strophiole. Same as caruncle. 



Style. The beak-like prolongation of the 

 pistil above the ovary, which bears the 

 stigma. 



Stylopodium. An enlargement at the base 

 of the style, found in Umbelliferae and 

 some other plants. 



Svh-, as a prefix, means about, nearly, 

 somewhat; as svbcordate, sUghtly cordate; 

 svbaerrate, slightly serrate; svbaxUlary, 

 just beneath the axil, etc. 



Svbulate. Awl-shaped; tapering from' a 

 broadish or tkickish base to a sharp point. 



Succulent. Juicy or pulpy. 



Sucker. A shoot from subterranean 

 branches. 



Suifrutescent. Slightly shrubby or woody 

 at the base only. 



Sulcate. Grooved longitudinally. 



Surculose. Producing suckers, or shoots re- 

 sembling them. 



Suture. The line of junction of contigu- 

 ous parts that seem to have grown to- 

 gether. 



Sympetalous. With united petals. 



Syn^enesious. With stamens united by their 

 anthers. _^ 



Taproot. A stout vertical root which con- 

 tinues the main axis of the plant. 



Tavmy. Dull yellowish, with a tinge of 

 brown. 



Tendril. A thread-shaped process used for 

 climbing. 



Terete.^ Same as cylindricalf only it may 

 include tapering. 



Ternate. In threes, as in leaf-divisions. 



Tetrd-, in compounds, means four. 



Teiradynarrunts. With four stamens longer 

 than the other two. 



Thorn. See spine. 



Throat. The qriflce of agamopetalous co- 

 rolla or calyx; the region between the 

 tube proper and the limb. , 



Thyrse, Thyrsus. ' A compact and pyrami- 

 dal panicle. 



ToTnentose. , Clothed with matted woolly 

 hairs (,t07nentum). 



TooOted, Furnished with teeth or short 

 projections of any sort on the margin, 

 used especially when these are sharp, 

 like saw-teeth, and do not point forwards. 



Torose, Torulose. Knobby; where a cy- 

 lindrical body is swollen at intervals. 



Torus. The receptacle of the flower. 



Tri-, in compounds, means three. 



Trichotomous. Three-forked. 



Trifid, Three-cleft. 



THgonoiks. Three-angled. 



Triquetrous. Sharply three-angled; and es- 

 pecially with the sides concave, like a 

 bayonet. 



Truncate, Ending abruptly, as if cut off 

 transversely. 



Tuber, A thickened portion of a subter- 

 ranean stem or branch. 



Tubercle, A small excrescence. 



Tvhercled, Tvberculate. Bearing excres- 

 cences or pimples. 



Tuberous, Resembling a tuber. 



Tumid, Swollen; somewhat inflated. 



Tunicate. Coated; invested with layers, as 

 an onion. 



Turbinate. Top-shaped. 



Turgid, Swollen; thick as if swollen. 



Turio (plural turiones), A young shoot or 

 sucker springing out of the ground. 



Twining. Ascending by coiling round a 

 support, like the hop. 



Umbel, The lunbrellarlike fonn of inflo* 



rescence. 

 Umbellate, In umbels. 

 Umbellet. A secondary or partial umbel. 

 Unarmed. Destitute of spines, prickles, 



and the like. 

 Uncinate, Hook-shaped; hooked at the end. 

 Undulate, Wavy, or wavy-margined. 

 Uneqitally pinnate. Pinnate with an odd 



niunber of leaflets. 

 Unguictdate. Fmuished with a claw (a 



narrow base), 

 {/ni-, in compounds, means one. 

 Unisexual. Having Only one kind of sex- 

 organs; applied also to flowers having 



only stamens or pistils. 

 Urceolate, Urn-shaped. 

 Utricle. A , sinall, thin-walled, one-seeded 



fruit. 

 Utricular, Like a small bladder. 



Vaginate. Surrounded by. a sheath. 



VcUvate. Opening by valves, as a capsule; 

 in aestiyation, meeting by the edges with- 

 out overlapping. 



Valve. One of the pieces into which a 

 dehiscent pod, or any similar body, splits. 



Veinleta, The smaller ramifications of veins. 



Veins. The fibrovascular :3trands in a leaf 

 or other organ. 



Venation. The veining of leaves, etc 



