Stole ; a lax trailing shoot from the crown of the root, rooting 



at intervals. 

 Stoloniferous ; having stoles. 



Stomates ; minute organic openings in the skin of plants. 

 Strapshaped ; not very narrow nor long, and with nearly parallel 



Streak; a straight line of peculiar colour or structure, or a 

 furrow. 



Slries ; very slight furrows or ridges. 



Striate ; with slender streaks or furrows. 



Striped ; having coloured streaks. 



Stripes ; the vittae of UmheUifers. 



Stj/le ; the space between the ovary and stigma. 



Stylopode ; a fleshy disk crowning the ovary and supporting the 

 style of Umbellifers. 



Sub ; in composition means a near approach to ; as subrotund is 

 nearly round. 



Subulate ; awlshaped, tapering from the base to a fine point, a 

 long narrow triangle. 



Sucker ; a stem produced at the end of an imderground shoot. 



Superior ; above any thing ; a calyx is superior when its tube is 

 wholly attached to the ovary, half-superior when attached 

 only to the lower half of it ; an ovary is superior when 

 wholly free from the calyx ; a part of a flower placed next 

 to the axis. 



Sitspended ovules hang down from near the top of the ovary. 



Suture; the line of junction of similar organs cohering. 



Swordshaped; very long, narrow, nearly parallel-sided, sharp- 

 edged, acute. 



Syncarpous ; fruit formed of cohering carpels. 



Tailed; having a long slender point. 



Tassel-like ; resembling a silken tassel or painter's camel's-hair 

 pencil. 



Tendril ; a twisting slender organ for laying hold of objects. 



Terete ; having a nearly round transverse section. 



Ternate ; growing in threes about the same point of a stem. 



Testa; tie outer coat of a seed. 



Testaceov^ ; brownish yellow. 



Tetragonons ; with four angles and four convex faces. 



Thorn ; an abortive branch with a sharp point ; disting^uished 

 from a prickle by being woody. 



Three-veined ; having three veins, usually of nearly equal size, 

 proceeding from the base. Sometimes leaves are falsely 

 three-veined when the ends of a series of lateral veins com- 

 bine to form a submarginal vein near each edge of the leaf. 



Throat; the orifice of the tube of a gamopetalous coroUa or 

 gamosepalous calyx. 



