856 GLOSSARY. 



Stigma : the upper end of the pistil which receives the pollen. 



Stipe : stem of a Mushroom, etc. 



Stipel: a stipule of a leaflet. 



Stipulate : having stipules. 



Stipules : appendages on either side at the base of some petioles. 



Stolon : a trailing, rooting shoot. 



Stoloniferous : bearing stolons. 



Stoma (pi. Stomata), or Stomate : the orifice or breathing-pore in the 



epidermis of leaves, etc. 

 Stone-fruit : a fleshy fruit with a hard or stony endocarp. 

 Stratification : alternate denser and less dense layers in a thickened 



cell-wall. 

 Streah : appearance of a mineral when scratched ; the line made by 



marking with a mineral. 

 Striate : having longitudinal grooves or furrows. 

 Striation: layers at right angles to those of stratification. 

 Strobile : a cone-like multiple fruit ; as of the Hop and Pine. 

 Style : the part of the pistil between the ovary and stigma. 

 Stylospore : stalked, and apparently non-sexual, reproductive bodies 



or spores, as in some Fungi. 

 Sub (as a prefix) : nearly or under. 

 Suberose : like cork. 

 Submersed : growing under water. . 



Subulate : awl-shaped ; broad at the base and pointed at the apex. 

 Sucker : a shoot of subterranean origin. 

 Suffruteseent : slightly shrubby. 

 Svffruticose : low and shrubby at base. 

 Sulcate : having deep longitudinal furrows. 

 Superior : above. 

 Suspensor : the elongated growth in the embryo-sac on the lower end 



of which the embryo is formed. 

 Suture : the line of junction of two parts or two edges. 

 Swarmspore : a motile, naked spore. 

 Symmetrical flower : one in which the members of the difierent whorls 



are the same in number. 

 Syncarp, Syncarpine : a multiple fruit. 

 Syncarpous : composed of two or more united carpels. 

 Syngenesious : stamens with anthers united into a tube. 



Tap-root : the primary root with a stout body. 



Taxology, Taxonomy : that which relates to classification and its rules. 



Teamen : inner coat of a seed. 



Teleutospore : a thick-walled winter spore of some Fungi (Uredinese). 



Tendril: a filiform coiling body for assistance in climbing. 



Teratology : that which relates to unnatural forms or monstrosities. 



Terete: round. 



Terminal : at or belonging to the end or apex. 



Terminology: glossology; technical nomenclature. 



Ternary : in threes ; having three elements. 



Testa : the outer, more or less firm, seed-coat. 



