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Glossary of Terits. 
Spike.—Having sessile flowers on a 
long axis. 
Squamatus.—Clothed with scales. 
Stamen.—The male organ of a flower. 
Staminode.—Rudimentary organs next 
to the stamens. 
Stigma.—The viscous part of a style to 
which the pollen adheres, 
Stipes.—The main stalk of Fern fronds, 
Stipitate Stalked, applied to carpels. 
Stipules.—Bract-like or spinescent. pro- 
cesses at the base of the petioles of 
many plants. 
Stolon.— An offset or runner producing 
roots at intervals. 
Style—The slender termination of a 
earpel bearing the stigma. 
Sub, in composition, is equal to some- 
what, in some degre. 
Subulate—Awl-shaped. 
Sulcate.—Furrowed. 
Superior —As an ovary when the calyx 
is below it. 
Sylvestris, sylvaticus. — Inhabiting 
woods. 
Syn, signifies union or growing to- 
gether, as syncarpous, when the car- 
pels are consolidated ; or syngenesious, 
when the anthers are united. 
Tenuis.—Slender, thin, 
Terete.—Cylindrical. 
Testa.— The skin of a seed. 
Titradynamous.—Having six stamens, 
of which two are shorter than the 
other four. 
Thalainus.—The receptacle or torus of 
a flower. 
Tomentose. — Having a dense short 
down. 
Toothed.—Having small divisions on 
the margin. 
Torus.—The part on which the divisions 
of a flower or fruit are seated, 
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Tri, in compounds, signifies ¢hree. 
Trifoliolate.—Having three leaflets pro- 
ceoding from the samo point. 
Tristis.— Dull-coloured. 
Truncate.—Torminating abruptly, as the 
leaf of the Tulip-tree. 
Tuber.—An underground fleshy stem, 
like the Dahlia. 
Tuberculate. — Covered with excres- 
cences. 
Uliginosus,—Inhabiting swampy places. 
Umbel.—An inflorescence, having the 
flower-stalks radiating from one 
point. An umbel is cither simple or 
compound. 
Umbiosus,—Growing in shady places. 
Unarmed. — Destitute of spines or 
prickles. 
Undulate.—Having a wavy margin. 
Urens,—Stinging. 
Valvate (@estivation),—Sepals or petals 
meeting at the margins, but not 
overlapping each other. 
Velutinus.—Velvety, as the surface of 
leaves. 
Ventral.—The anterior part of an organ. 
Vernalis.—Produced in Spring. 
Vernation,—The arrangement of leaves 
in bud. 
Verrucosus.—-Warty. 
Versatile.—Affixed by the middle. 
Verticillate. — When several leaves, 
petals, ete., are on the same plano 
around the axis. 
Virens.—Green. 
Virgatus.—Twiggy. 
Viridis.—Clear full green. 
Volubilis —Twisting. 
Whorl.—A ring of organs on the same 
plane. 
Winged.—Furnished witha membranous 
expansion, as the seeds of many 
Conifers and the fruits of the Maples. 
