GLOSSARY. 



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



Stipulate : furnished with stipules. 



Stipules: the appendages on each side of the base of certain ] 



Stolons : trailing or reclined and rooting shoots. 



Stoloniferous : producing stolons. 



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



Strap-shaped : long, flat, and narrow. 



Striate, or striated : marked with slender longitudinous grooves or channels 



(Latin strice). 

 Strict : close and narrow ; straight and narrow. 



Strigillose, Strigose : beset with stout 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. 

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

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

 Style : a part of the pistil which bears the stigma. 

 Stylopddium : 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 : 



subserrate, slightly serrate j subaxillary, just beneath the axil, &c, &c. 

 Suberose : corky or cork-like in texture. 

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



point. 

 Succulent : juicy or pulpy. 

 Suckers : shoots from subterranean branches. 

 Suffrutescent : slightly shrubby or woody at the base only. 

 Sulcate : grooved longitudinally with deep furrows. 

 Supirvolute : plaited and convolute in bud 

 Supra-axillary : borne above the axil, as some buds. 

 Surculose : producing suckers, or shoots resembling them. 

 Suspended : hanging down. Suspended ovules or seeds hang from the very 



summit of the cell which contains them. 

 Siiture : the line of junction of contiguous parts grown together. 

 Sword-shaped : vertical leaves with acute parallel edges, tapering above to a 



point ; as those of Iris. 

 Symmetrical Flower : similar in the number of parts of each set. 

 Syndntherous, or Syngenesious : where stamens are united by their anthers. 

 Syncdrpous (fruit or pistil) : composed of several carpels consolidated into 



one. 



Taper-pointed : same as acuminate. 



Tap-root : a root with a stout tapering body. 



Tawny : dull yellowish, with a tinge of brown. 



Tendril : a thread-shaped body used for climbing': it is either a branch, as in 



Virginia Creeper, or a part of a leaf, as in Pea and Vetch. 

 Tirete : long and round ; same as cylindrical, only it may taper. 

 Terminal : borne at, or belonging to, the extremity or summit. 

 Ternate : in threes. Ternately : in a ternate way. 



