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GLOSSARY. 
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 radiate like a *. 
Stellate \ radiating from a centre like a star. 
Stellulate ; like minute stars. 
Stigma ; the cellular part at the top of a carpel or sfyle to which 
the pollen adheres. 
Stigmatic disk ; a broad surface at the top of the style, or form- 
ing the whole of it, upon which the stigmas are placed. 
Stipe ; the stalk of Ferns up to the lowest pinna. 
Stipules ; leaflike appendages at the base of the petiole. 
Stobole ; a creeping imderground stem producing roots and leaf- 
buds at intervals ; an underground stole. 
Stobolifermts ; ha\'ing stoboles, or long imderground shoots end- 
ing in suckers. 
Stole ; a lax trailing shoot from the crown of the root, rooting 
at intervals. 
Stolmtiferoits ; 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. 
Stnee ; very slight furrows or ridges. 
Striate ; with slender streaks or furrows. 
Striped ; having colom-ed streaks. 
Stripes ; the vittse of Umbellifers. 
Stgle ; the space between the ovary and stigma. 
Stylopode ; a fleshy disk crowning the ovary and supporting the 
styles of Umbellifers. 
Sub ; in composition means a near approach to : as subrotund is 
nearly round. 
Subidate ; awlshaped, tapering from the base to a fine point, a 
long naiTOw triangle. 
Sucker ; a stem produced at the end of an undergi-oimd shoot. 
Superior ; above anj^;hing ; a calyx is superior when its tube is 
wholly attached to tne ovaiy, half-superior when attached 
only to the lower half of it ; an ovai-y 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 ovan'. 
Suture ; the line of junction of similai- organs cohering. 
Tailed ; having a long slender point. 
Tendril; a twisting slender organ for laj'ing hold of objects. 
Terete ; having a nearly round transverse section. 
Tenmte ; growing in threes about the same point of a stem. 
