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GLOSSARY. 



Stipe: 



subterranean stems are called root stock- or rhizome, or when short and as 

 if bitten off, pramorse root; when possessing eyes or latent buds they are 

 tubers; covered with thin scales on the very much condensed internodes, 

 the almost globular stem is called a cortn, and if the scales are fleshy we speak 

 of a bulb, either tunicated or scaly, — As to the direction in which the leaf- 

 bearing stems grow, they are distinguished by the names; erect; — procum- 

 bent, prostrate or trailing; — decumbent or reclining; — assurgent or ascend' 

 ing, when growing obliquely from a longer or shorter prostrate base. 



the stalk of the ovary lifting it above the insertion of the other floral organs; — 

 also the leafstalk of a fern-leaf. 



Stipules: a pair of appendages at the base of the petiole: — the stipules of a leaflet 

 are called stipels. 



Stolon: a branch which bends over and strikes root (compare Runner); a long and 



slender stolon is called sarment. 

 Striate: marked with fine longitudinal grooves. 

 Style (see Pistil). 

 Subulate: awl-shaped. 



Succulent: juicy, of loose cellular structure, fleshy. 



Sucker: an ascending or erect branch from a creeping underground stem. 

 Suff rutescent : slightly woody at the base. 



Suffruticose : under-shrub; a woody base, annually producing herbaceous shoots. 

 Sulcate: furrowed. 



Tassel: the staminate inflorescence of corn. 

 Tegmen: the inner seed-coat. 

 Tendril: a leaf or portion of a leaf, or a branch, so modified as to serve the purpose 



of climbing. 

 Terete: cylindrical. 

 Testa: the outer seed-coat. 



Torose, Torulose: with constrictions and enlargements at intervals. 

 Torus or Receptacle: the axis of the flower at the summit of the flower-stalk; from 



it spring the parts of the flower, or it bears the florets of a head. That 



portion of the receptacle which is raised into the midst of the whorls is called 



the disk (hypanthium). 

 Tuber (see Stem). 



Tubercle: a small knob-like outgrowth. 

 Tumid: swollen; — Tumescent: somewhat swollen. 

 Turbinate: shaped like a top. 

 Turgid: swollen, inflated. 

 Unguiculate : possessing a claw. 

 Vegetable: an edible herbaceous plant or a part thereof, that is commonly used for 



culinary purposes; some fruits are excepted as watermelon, cantaloupe, 



strawberry and peanut. 

 Veins: strands of vessels forming the frame-work of a leaf. 

 Venation: distribution of the veins in a leaf. 

 Vernation: arrangement of the leaves in the bud. A leaf in the bud may be flat or 



open, — or: 

 inflexed or reclined, when the upper part of the leaf is folded down upon the lower; 

 conduplicate, when the two halves are folded face t o face along the mid vein; 

 plaited or plicate, when folded like a fanj 

 circinate, when rolled from the apex downward; 

 convolute, when rolled from one edge to the other; 



