XXU GLOSSARY. 



SUiqm ; a long podlike fruit of Orucifers having its edges con- 

 nected by an internal membrane. 



Simple ; not compound ; not branched. 



Sinuate ; having many large blunt lobes and notches. 



Slashed ; with deep tapering incisions. 



Smooth ; free from all kinds of roughness. 



Sobole ; a creeping underground stem producing roots and leaf- 

 buds at intervals ; an underground stole. 



Soholiferous ; having soboles, or long imderground shoots ending 

 in suckers. 



Solitary ; growing singly. 



Spadix ; a succulent spike bearing many sessile closely placed 

 flowers. 



Spath ; a large bract often enclosing a spadix. 



Spathulate ; oblong, with a long linear claw or haft. 



Spike ; a long simple axis with many sessile flowers ; hence spi- 

 cate flowers. 



Spikelet ; the small group of flowers in Grasses enclosed within 

 one or more glumes. 



Spine ; a stiif sharp woody persistent thorn. 



Spinous ; furnished with spines. 



Spimilose ; with small, often very minute spines or prickles. 



Spiral vessels ; fine tubes composed of membrane with spirally 

 twisted fibres internally. 



Sporules ; the seedlike reproductive bodies of flowerless plants. 



Spar ; a tubular extension of the lower part of a petal or gamo- 

 petalous corolla ; a loose prolongation of the base of a leaf 

 beyond its point of attachment. 



Spurred ; furnished with a spur. 



Squarrose ; covered with appendages spreading at right angles 

 or more. 



Stamen ; the male organ of a fiower, usually formed of a fila- 

 ment and anther. 



Staminode ; a scale on the inside of the upper lip of some Scro- 

 phulariaceEe. 



Standard ; the upper or posterior petal of a Pea-flower, which 

 is outside the others in the bud. 



Starlike ; applied to flowers of which the petals are narrow and 

 distant and radiant like a star. 



Stellate ; radiating from a centre like a star. 



SteUulate ; like minute stars. 



Stigma ; the cellular part at the top of a carpel or style to which 

 the pollen adheres. 



Stigmatic disk ; a broad surface at the top of the style, or form- 

 ing the whole of it, upon which the stigmas are placed. 



Stipe ; the stalk of Ferns up to the lowest pinna. 



Stipules ; leaflike appendages at the base of the petiole. 



