186 



gloss a in*. 



closes or sheathes the stem for some 

 distance above the node. 



Silicic, a short silique not much 

 longer than wide; sometimes inde- 

 lii scent. 



Silique, a 2-celled capsule, several 

 times longer than wide, the valves 

 splitting from the bottom and leav- 

 ing the placentae with the false 

 partition stretched between. 



Simple, unbranched or without bran- 

 ches; simple leaf, the blade com- 

 posed of one piece; simple pistil, 

 of one carpel. 



Sinuate, with a recessed margin. 



Sinus, with a recess or indentation, 

 literally a bay. 



Smooth, not rough; opposed to sca- 

 brous, echinate, etc. Cf. Glabrous. 



Sordid, of a dull white or dirty hue. 



Spadix, a spike with a fleshy axis. 



Spathe, a bract enclosing a flower 

 cluster. 



Spicate, in the form of a spike; spike- 

 like, especially when flower clusters 

 are arranged spicately. 



Spike, a flower cluster in which the 

 flowers are sessile and more or less 

 densely arranged along a common 

 peduncle. 



Spikelet, a secondary spike; the 

 flower-cluster of Grasses. 



Spine, a sharp-pointed hard woody 

 organ; homologous with a leaf; 

 spincscent, ending in a spine or 

 sharp rigid point; spinose, fur- 

 nished with spines or of a spiny 

 character; spinulose, the diminu- 

 tive. 



Spur, a slender and hollow extension 

 or prolongation of some part of a 

 flower, as the petal of a Columbine 

 or calyx of a Larkspur. 



Squama, a scale; squamate, scale- 

 like; squamella, a diminutive scale; 

 sguamellate, like a little scale. 



Stamen, one of the male organs of 

 the flower. 



8ta niiiKih , hearing or containing sta- 

 mens but no pistils; sterile; said 

 of a flower, flower cluster or plant. 



Staminodwm, a sterile stamen, usually 

 one in which the anther is wholly 



obsolete and the filament much de- 

 veloped or dilated. 



Stellate, with rays like those of a 

 star, star-shaped. 



Sterile, barren; a stamen without an- 

 ther or an anther without pollen; a 

 flower without a pistil or with im- 

 perfect pistil; ovary without good 

 ovules. 



Stigma, the receptive part of the style 

 which secretes a sticky or viscid 

 substance. 



Stipe, stalk by which the ovary or 

 fruit is raised above the receptacle. 



Stipels, stipules of the leaflet. 



Stipitate, having a stipe. 



Stipules, small supplementary organs 

 or appendages of the leaf, borne 

 in pairs at the base of the petiole. 



Stolon, a stem or branch bending or 

 curving down at tip and there root- 

 ing. Cf. Eunner. 



Stoloniferous, bearing stolons. 



Striate, marked with longitudinal 

 lines, grooves or ridges. 



Strict, close or narrow, closely up- 

 right and straight, not spreading. 



Strigose, with straight appressed hairs 

 or bristles. 



Strophiole, an appendage near the 

 hilum of seeds. 



Style, the contracted or slender por- 

 tion of a pistil between the ovary 

 and stigma. 



Stylopodium, the enlargement or disk- 

 like expansion at the base of the 

 style, as in Umbelliferae. 



Sub-, prefix, meaning somewhat, near- 

 ly, or below, depending upon the 

 context. 



Submerged or submersed, growing un- 

 der water. 



Subulate, awl-shaped. 



Succulent, juicy or fleshy. 



Suffrutescent, woody at base, with a 

 persistent woody portion above 

 ground, but no implication of di- 

 minutiveness. Cf. Fruticulose. 



Sulcus, a groove or furrow; sulcate, 

 grooved or furrowed. 



Superior, growing or placed above; 

 superior ovary, one free from the 

 calyx; superior stamens or superior 



