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GLOSSAEY. 
Striped; having coloured streaks. 
Stripes ; the vittae of Unibellifers. 
Style ; the space between the ovary and stigma. 
Stylopode ; a fleshy disc crowning the ovary and supporting 
the style of Unibellifers. 
Suh ; in composition means a near approach to ; as subrotund 
is nearly round. 
Subulate ; awlshaped, tapering from the base to a fine point, a 
long narrow triangle. 
Sucker ; a stem produced at the end of an underground shoot. 
Superior ; above any thing ; a calyx is superior when its tube 
is wholly attached to the ovary, half-superior when 
attached only to the lower half of it ; an ovary is superior 
when wholly free from the calyx ; a part of a flower 
placed next to the axis. 
Suspended ovules hang down from near the top of the ovary. 
Suture ; the line of junction of similar organs cohering. 
Swordsliaped ; very long, narrow, nearly parallel-sided, sharp- 
edged, acute. 
Symj)ode ; a stem formed of a series of superposed branches 
so as to resemble a continuous axis. 
Syncarpous ; fruit formed of cohering carpels. 
Syngenesious flowers form a head and have 5 stamens with 
united anthers. 
Tailed ; having a long slender point. 
Tassel-like ; resembling a silken tassel or painter's camel's-hair 
pencil. 
Tendril ; a twisting slender organ for laying hold of objects. 
Terete ; having a nearly round transverse section. 
Terniate ; growing in threes about the same point of a stem. 
Testa ; the outer coat of a seed. 
Testaceous ; brownish yellow. 
Tetragonous ; with four angles and four convex faces. 
Thorn ; an abortive branch with a .sharp point ; distinguished 
from a prickle by being woody. 
Three-veined ; having three veins, usually of nearly equal size, 
proceeding from the base. Sometimes leaves are falsely 
three-veined when the ends of a series of lateral veins com- 
bine to form a submarginal vein near each edge of the leaf. 
Throat ; the orifice of the tube of a gamopetalous corolla or 
gamosepalous calyx. 
Thyrsoid ; having a close-branched raceme of which the 
middle is broader than the ends. 
yWmto.5e ; covered with cottony entangled hairs, forming a 
matted shagginess called tomentum ; felted. 
