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GLOSSARY OF SOME BOTANICAL TERMS 



Secund, all arranged on one side. 



Seminal, relating to the seed. 



Sepals, calyx-leaves. 



Serrate, saw-edged. 



Sessile, sitting, destitute of a stalk. 



Setaceous, bristly. 



Silicle, a short pod with a par- 

 tition. 



Silique, a long pod with a par- 

 tition. 



Sinuous, wavy, like the edge of an 

 oak leaf. 



Spathulate, oblong, but widening 

 towards the end. 



Spindle-shaped, cylindrical, but 

 tapering to a point like a 

 carrot. 



Spores, the seeds of ferns, mosses, 

 etc. 



Spur, a sharp horn-shaped swelling 



Squarrose, at right angles with the 

 stem. 



Stamen, one of the male organs of 

 a flower which produce the 

 pollen. 



Stellate, star-like. 



Sterile, barren, having stamens, 

 but no pistils. 



Stigma, the summit of the pistil. 



Stipitate, stalked. 



Stipules, wings at the base of a 

 leaf-stalk. 



Stolon, a rooting scion. 



Style, the middle part of the pistil. 



Subulate, awl-shaped. 



Suture, a seam or joint. 



Syngenesious , united with the an- 

 thers. 



Tap-root, the main verticle root. 



Tendril, a twisted stalk, bearing 

 neither leaf nor flower. 



Terete, long and cylindrical. 



Ternate, growing in threes. 



Testa, the outer shell of a seed. 



Tetradynamous , having six sta- 

 mens, four long and two short. 



Thalamus, the receptacle. 



Thorn, a sharp point having a 

 woody centre. 



Throat, the upper part of a tube. 



Tormentose, covered with thick 

 cotton. 



Trifid, three-cleft. 



Truncate, ending abruptly, as if 

 cut off. 



Uncinate, hooked. 

 Unilateral, one-sided. 

 Urceolate, pitcher-shaped. 

 Valvals, opening with valves. 

 Vascular, containing vessels. 

 Vermicular, worm-like. 

 Vernation, the state of leaves in 

 bud. 



Verrucose, warty. 

 Veriicillate, whorled. 

 Vesicle, a bladder. 

 Villous, shaggy. 

 Viscous, clammy. 

 Viviparous, producing young 

 plants instead of seeds. 



Whorl, three or more leaves 

 springing from the same point 

 on a stem. 



Whorled, growing in a whorl. 



Wings, the name often given to 

 any leaf-like expansion. 



