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GLOSSARY. 
set round a stalk, with an involucre below: applied to any like form of in- 
florescence, even when the involucre is wanting. 
Spu< he. An envelope consisting of one or more leaves, usually called valves, en- 
closing the buds of a scapaceous umbel before they break through. 
Spat u late. Shaped like a spatula or spoon, wider near the end and attenuated 
below. 
Stamen. The filament and anther. 
Stigma. The summit of the style, often fringed, through which the influence of 
the pollen is received and conveyed to the ovary. 
Strophiolated. Having strophioles. 
Strophioles. A girdle of w rinkles or tubercles around the hilum or chalaza of a 
seed. The umbilical chord has sometimes been called a strophiole, but this 
creates confusion. 
Strumous. Preposterously enlarged in part ; strictly having a wen. 
Style. The column proceeding from the summit of the ovary which supports 
the stigma. 
Sub. In compound prefixed to an adjective signifies a tendency to the quality it 
represents, as subglaucous, of a colour tending to glaucous ; subacute, not 
acute, but nearly so. 
Subulate. Awl-shaped. 
Sujfruticose. Having a tendency to the form of a shrub. 
Triandrous. Having three stamens. 
Tripartible. Separable into three. 
Tripetaloid. Having the appearance of three petals. All adjectives formed 
from a substantive, with the addition of oid, signify having the appear- 
ance thereof. 
Tubed. Having a tube. 
Tube-shaped. Having the appearance of a tube, though cleft. 
Tubular. Consisting of a tube. 
Turbinate. In the form of a top, greatly attenuated at the base. 
Valves. The portions into wdrich a dehiscent pericarp or a spathe splits. 
Ventricose. Bellying out, enlarged towards the middle. 
Versatile. Easily moveable on the point of its attachment. 
Villous. Fleecy, woolly. 
Umbel. A head of flowers of which the footstalks properly diverge from nearly 
the same plane, but in crowded umbels the centre is often much protruded. 
Umbilicus. The point in a seed of attachment to the chord by which it is con- 
nected with the ovary, and through which it is nourished. 
