GLOSSARY. 



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Sinus, with a recess or indenta- 

 tion, literally a bay. 



Smooth, not rough, opposed to 

 scabrous, echinate, etc. 



Sordid, of a dull or dirty hue. 



Spadix, a spike with a tleshy 

 axis. 



Spathaceous, spathe-like. 

 Spathe, a bract enclosing a flower 

 cluster. 



Spicate, in the form of a spike. 



Spike, a flower cluster in which 

 the flowers are sessile and more 

 or less densely arranged along 

 the peduncle. 



Spikelet, a secondary spike; the 

 flower-cluster of Grasses. 



Spine, a sharp-pointed hard 

 woody organ. 



Spinescent, ending in a spine or 

 sharp rigid point. 



Spinose, furnished with spines, as 

 the involucral bracts in the 

 head of a Thistle. 



Spur, a slender and hollow ex- 

 tension or prolongation of some 

 part of a flower, as the petal of 

 a Columbine or calyx of a 

 Larkspur. 



Squamella, a diminutive scale. 



Stalk of a leaf, the petiole. 



Stamen, one of the male organs 

 of the flower. 



Staminate, provided with or con- 

 taining stamens but no pistils: 

 said of a flower or plant. 



Staminodium, a sterile stamen, 

 usually one in which the anther 

 is wholly obsolete and the fila- 

 ment much developed or di- 

 lated. 



Stellate, with rays like those of a 

 star, star-shaped. 



Sterile, barren; a stamen without 

 anther or an anther without 

 pollen; a flower without a 

 pistil or with imperfect 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. 



Stipules, small supplementary or- 

 gans or appendages of the leaf, 

 borne in pairs at the base of 

 the petiole. 



Stoloniferous, bearing stolons. 



Stoma, mouth-like opening, like 

 the partly opened lips. 



Stramineous, straw-like or straw- 

 colored. 



Striate, marked with longitudi- 

 nal lines, grooves or ridges. 



Strict, close or narrow, closely 

 upright and straight, not 

 spreading. 



Strigose, with straight appressed 

 hairs or bristles. 



Strophiole, an appendage near 

 the hilum of seeds, as in the 

 Bean. 



Style, the contracted or slender 

 portion of a pistil between the 

 ovary and stigma. 



Stylopodium, the enlargement or 

 disk-like expansion at the base 

 of the style, as in Umbellif- 

 erse. 



Sub-, prefix, meaning somewhat, 

 or nearly or below, depending 

 upon the context. 



Submerged or submersed, grow- 

 ing under water. 



Subulate, awl-shaped. 



Succulent, juicy or fleshy. 



Suffrutescent, somewhat woody at 

 base, with a persistent woody 

 portion above ground. 



Suffrutieose, somewhat shrubby 

 or shrub-like. 



Superior, growing or placed 

 above; superior ovary, one free 

 from the calyx; superior sta- 

 mens or superior lip of corolla, 



