232 GX.0S8ART. 



Stcaion : the particular place, or kind of situatioD, 'wk which a plant natnrallj 



occurs. , 

 Stellate, St€lhdar: starry or star-like; where several similar parts spread oat 



from a common centre, like a star. 

 Stem, p. 36, &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. 

 Stigmdiic, or Stigmatose : belonging to the stigma. 

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



Mushroom. 

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

 Stip^llate: furnished with stipels, as the Bean and some other Leguminous 



plants. 

 Stipitate: furnished with a stipe, as the pistil of Cleome, fig. 276. 

 Stipulate: furnished with stipules. , , . 



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

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

 Stoloniferous : producing stolons. 



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

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

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



(Latin strice). 

 Strict: close and narrow ; straight and narrow. 



Strigillose, Strigose : beset with stoat and appressed, scale-like or rigid bristles. 

 Strobildceous : relating to, or resembling a 

 Strdbile: 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 stropbiole. 

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

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

 Stglopddium : an epigynous disk, or an enlargement at the, base of the style, 



found in Umbelliferous and some other plants. 

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

 serrate, slightly serrate : subaxillarij, just beneath the asdl, &c., &c. 

 Stiberose : corky or cork-like in texture. 

 S«5cijss, p. 177, 183. Sulioider, p. 116. Subtribe, ip. m . 

 Snhulate : awl-shaped ; tapering from a broadisli or thickish base to a sharp 



point ; p. 68. 

 Succulent : juicy or pulpy. 



Suckers ; shoots from subterranean branches ; p. 37. 

 SuffnMscent : slightly shrubby or woody at the base only ; p. 36. 

 Sugar, p. 163. 



Sulcate : grooved longitudinally with deep furrows. 

 Supernumerary Burfs: p. 26. 



Sup^rvolute: plaited and convolute in blid ; p. 110, fig. 225. 

 Supra-axillan/ : borne above the axil, as some buds ; p. 26, fig. 52. 

 Supra-decompoand : many times comnoundod or divided. 



