GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 
Stipulate, having stipules. 
i laa bearing runners which root at the 
Stomata, pores of the epidermis. 
Striated, streaked. 
Strigose, covered with little, upright, stiff hairs. 
Strobile. a cone: this term is also applied to 
indicate the kind of fruit produced by the 
magnolia, 
Style, that part of the pistil which is situated 
upon the germen, and elevates the stigma. 
Sub, somewhat ; as sub-rotund, somewhat round, 
or roundish, &c. 
Suffruticose, rather shrubby. 
Sulcate, furrowed. 
Surculi, young shoots; suckers; stems of mosses. 
Surculose, producing surculi, or young shoots. 
Suture, the line formed by the cohesion of two 
parts, usually applied to the fruit. 
Sycon, a fleshy rachis, having the form of a 
flattened disk, or of a hollow receptacle, with 
distinct flowers and dry pericarpia, as in 
e fig. i 
T. 
Tendrils, the twining organs by which some 
plants lay hold of others, as the vine. 
Terete, long and round ; straw-like. 
Terminal, at the end. 
Ternary, consisting of threes. 
Ternate, a leaf of three leaflets is called ternate. 
Tessellaied, chequered. 
Testa, the shell or cuticle of a seed, containing 
all its parts. 
Tetragonal, four-angled. 
Tetragonous, having four angles. 
Thyrse, a mode of inflorescence in a dense 
Thyrsus, or close panicle, as in the lilac. 
Thyrsoid, resembling a thyrse. 
Tomentum, down; white hairs closely matted 
together, and soft to the touch. 
Toothed, so divided as to resemble teeth. 
Toothleted, having small teeth. 
Top-shaped, inversely conical; having a contrac- 
tion towards the point. 
Tortuous, twisted. 
Torulose, having slight swellings. 
Torus, the receptacle when somewhat elevated. 
Trailing. See Sarmentose. 
Tra idal, bearing a r bl in form to 
tbat of a trapezium, or quadrilateral figure, 
whose four sides are not equal, and none of its 
sides parallel. 
Trapexoideo-cordate, a form between that of a 
trapezium and that of a heart. 
Trichotomous, brauches dividing into threes. 
Trifid, three-cleft. 
Trifoliate, having three leaves. 
Trifoliolate, having three leaflets. 
Trigonal, 3-angled. 
Trigynous, having three styles. 
Triple-nerved, 3-nerved. 
Triquetrous, 3-sided. 
Truncate, blunt, as if cut off. 
Tube, the cylindrical part of a flower. 
Tubercle, a little knob. 
Tuberculate, covered with little knobs or tuber- 
cles. 
Tubulous, having a tubular calyx, corolla, nec- 
tary, stem, or leaf. 
Tufted, forming a dense tuft. 
Tumid, swelling. 
‘furbinate. top-shaped. ¥ 
Turgid, puffed up ; swollen 
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Uz. 
Ombellate, having the flowers in round flat heads, 
the flower-stalks proceeding from one common 
centre. 
Umbellule, a small umbel; a division of an 
umbel. 
Umbilicate, hollowed like the navel. 
Umbilicus, the cord which attaches the seed to 
the placenta. 
Umbo, a projecting point in the centre, like the 
bogs in an ancient shield. 
Umbonate, having an umbo. 
Unctuous, oily ;_ fat. 
Undulate, waved. | 
Unguiculate, furnished with a claw, or an unguis, 
as the petals of the pink. 
Urceolar, . 
Urceolate, }pitcher-shaped. ; 
Urceolus, the part when bellying out in the form 
of a pitcher. 
Utricle, a little bladder. 
Vie 
Valvate, opening by valves. 
Valvular, consisting of valves. 
Vaulted, formed like the roof of a vault. 
Velvety, covered with soft down, like velvet. 
Ventricose, inflated ; swelled out. 
Vernation, the disposition of the young or grow- 
ing leaves within the bud. 
Verrucose, warted ; covered with fleshy processes, 
in form resembling warts. 
Versatile, vane-like: an anther fixed in the 
centre on the point of the filament, so as to 
be continually changing its position, is said to 
be versatile. 
Verticel, a mode of inflorescence in which the 
flowers surround the stem in a kind of ring, 
though not, perhaps, inserted on all sides of it, 
but merely on two opposite ones. 
Verticillate, growing in whorls round the stem. 
Vexillum, the standard, or banner (the upper 
petal), of a papilionaceous, or pea, flower. 
Villous, clothed with soft, close, loose hairs. 
Piseid t clammy ; adhesive. 
Vitte, longitudinal ducts or canals, containing an 
oily or resinous substance, found within the 
coat of the carpels of some umbelliferous 
plants. 
w. 
Wavy, undulated. 
Wedge-shaped, inversely triangular, with rounded 
angles. 
Whorl, a disposition of leaves or flowers round 
the stem, resembling the spokes round the nave 
of a wheel. 
Wing, a membranous border, a membrane at- 
tached to some kinds of seeds, by which they are 
supported in the air when floating from place 
to place. 
Winged, furnished with a wing or wings. 
Wings, the side petals of a papilionaceous, or pea, 
flower. 
Woolly, covered with hairs closely matted to» 
ether. 
rinkled, having an unequal surface. 
Z. 
Zigzag, bending from side to side. 
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