‘GLOSSARY 319 
Sus. In composition signifies somewhat or nearly. 
SUBER (suber = cork). Vide Corxy. Note Pinus Sylvestris 
or Scots Pine. 
SUB-SESSILE. Vide SESSILE. 
SYLvEstRis (silva = a wood). That grows in a wood. Note 
Pinus Sylvestris or Scots Pine. 
Syn. In composition = with a growing together. 
TaBULIFORM (tabula = a table). In the form of a table, like 
the boughs of a cedar tree. 
TERETE (terere = to rub smooth). In shape like a lead pencil. 
TERNATE (terni = threefold). Growing in threes or whorls 
of three. Applied to the Pines that have 3 leaves in a 
bundle. 
TEsTA (testa = the shell or covering of a testaceous animal). 
Hence the skin of a seed. 
TETRAGONAL (Gk. tetra = four; gonia = angle). Applied to 
the shape of branchlets or twigs. 
TOMENTOsE (tomentum = stuffing for cushions). Vide 
PUBESCENCE, Downy, but the Tomentose character is 
more associated with an interwoven and matted covering 
of hairs on the shoots. 
TooTHED. Synonym: Dentate. Vide Marcin. 
TREE. A woody perennial plant with a trunk. 
Tri (tri = 3). In compound words three. 
TRIPINNATE. Three times pinnate. When the leaflets of a 
Bipinnate leaf become themselves pinnate. Vide 
PINNATE, BIPINNATE. 
TRIQUETRAL. Three-sided or three-angled. 
TRUNCATE (truncare = to lop off). Cut off at the top. 
TUBERCULATA (tuber = a projecting substance, a protuberance 
or excrescence). Pinus Tuberculata so-called because 
of its cones growing imbedded in trunk and causing 
excrescences. 
UmBEL (umbella = diminutive of ‘‘umbra,” shade). An 
inflorescence which has no common footstalk (or so-called 
Rachis) like a Corymb, but has flower-stalks (or so-called 
Pedicels) of nearly equal length and radiating from one 
centre or stalk. 
Uso (umbo = a projection or boss on a shield). The en- 
largement on certain cone scales. Vide Boss, 
