GLOSSARY. 
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Spath ; a large bract often enclosing a spadix. 
Spathidate ; oblong, with a long linear claw or haft. 
Spike ; a long simple axis with many sessile flowers ; hence 
spicate flowers. 
Spikelet ; the small group of flowers in Grasses enclosed within 
one or more glumes. 
Spine : a stiff sharp woody persistent thorn. 
Spinous ; furnished with spines. 
Spinulose ; with small, often very minute spines or prickles. 
Spiral vessels ; fine tubes composed of membrane with spirally 
twi-sted fibres internally. 
Sporules ; the seedlike reproductive bodies of flowerless plants. 
Sptir ; a tubular extension of the lower part of a petal or 
gamopetalous corolla ; a loose prolongation of the base 
of a leaf beyond its point of attachment. 
Spurred ; furnished with a spur. 
Sqvarrose ; covered with appendages spreading at right angles 
or more. 
Stamen ; the male organ of a flower, usually formed of a 
filament and anther. 
Staminode ; a scale on the inside of the upper lip of some 
Scrophulariaceae. 
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. 
Stellulate ; 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 
forming the whole of it, upon which the stigmas are 
placed. 
Stipe ; the stalk of Ferns up to the lowest pinna. 
Stipvles ] leaflike appendages at the base of the petiole. 
Stipulodes ; spines beneath the whorls of branches in Chara. 
Stole ; a lax trailing shoot from the crown of the root, rooting 
at intervals. 
Stoloniferous ; having stoles. 
Stomates ; minute organic openings in the skin of plants. 
Strapshaped ; not very narrow nor long, and with nearly 
parallel sides. 
Streak ; a straight line of peculiar colour or structure, or a 
furrow. 
Striae ; very slight furrows or ridges. 
Striate ; with slender streaks or furrows. 
