INDEX 
665 
Storax, Liquidambar, Styrax 
Stork’s-bill, Erodium 
Stove, 7 
Strasburg turpentine, Abies 
Strawberry, Fragaria ; -tomato, 
Physalis Alkekengi L. ; -tree, 
Arbutus 
Strengthening tissue, 43, 160 
Striate, with fine || lines 
Strigose, with appressed stiff hairs 
or bristles 
Stringy bark, Eucalyptus 
Strobilus, 55, Lycopodium 
Strophanthin, Strophanthus 
Strophiole, caruncle 
Struggle for existence, 24, 149 
Strychnine, Strychnos 
Style, 82, 79, 97 
Sub- (Lat. pref.), under, below, 
nearly (cf. p. 53) 
Sub-dominant species, 179 
Suberization, conversion into cork 
Sub-genus, a group of species 
within a genus ; cf. Gentiana 
Sub-order, a group of genera in 
an order, 212 
Subsidence of land, 147 
Subterranean fruits,^ mph icaipaea , 
Arachis , Trifolium 
Sub-trop., sub-tropical 
Subulate, awl-shaped, 52 
Succulence, 167, 169 
Succulent -house, 7 ; -leaf, 53 ; 
-stem, 45 ; -plants, 167 
Sucker, a shoot arising below 
ground, a new shoot on an old 
stem, 153, 113, 176; of para- 
sites, 40, 176 
Suff., suffix 
Suffruticose, 150, 154 
Sugar, 33, 34, 205, Beta, Sorghum ; 
-apple, Anona ; -beet, Beta ; 
-cane, Saccharum ; maple-, 
Acer ; palm-, Arenga , Caryota , 
Cocos\ -pine, Pinus 
Suggestions to students, 4 
Sulcate, furrowed 
Sulphur-root, Peucedanum 
Sumac, Rhus 
Sumatra-camphor, Dryobalanops 
Summer-grape, Vitis 
Sundew, Drosera 
Sunflower, Helianthus 
Sun-plants, 142, 167 
Sunn-hemp, Crotalaria 
Sup., superior, 71, 72, 82 
Superposed, vertically over, 70 
Supervolute, convolute 
Supinus (Lat.), lying face upwards 
Suppression of organs, 31 ; of 
members of whorl, 70 
Surculus, a sucker 
Surface of leaf, 53 
Survival of the fittest, 24 
Suspensor, Selaginella 
Suture, line of junction of carpels 
&c., 82 
Sw., Swartz 
Swamp-cypress, Taxodium 
Swede, a var. of turnip 
Sweet-bay, Laurus ; -calabash, 
Pas si flora ; -cicely, Myrrhis ; 
-flag, Acorus ; -gale, Myrica ; 
-gum, Liquidambar ; -lime, 
Citrus ; -pea, Lathyrus ; -potato, 
Ipomoea\ -sop, Anona', -vernal 
grass, Anthoxanthum ; -William, 
Diant hus 
Sword-sedge, Lepidosperma 
Sycamore, Acer 
Sycomore, -fig, Ficus 
Sylvestris (Lat.), growing in woods 
Sym-, syn- (Gr. pref.), with 
Symbiosis, 177, Cecropia 
Symmetry, 31 ; in fir., 73 ; in shoot, 
46, 47 
Sympet., Sympetalae 
Sympetalous, 70, 76 
Symphysis, coalescence 
Sympodial branching, 153, 154 
Sympodium, 42, 63, 65 
Synandrium, 78 
Synandrodium, a union of stami- 
nodes, Araceae 
Synandrous, 78 
Synangium, Marattiaceae 
Syncarpous, 70, 79, 82 
Syncp. , syncarpous 
Synergidae, 81, Angiospermae 
Syngenesious, 78, Compositae 
Synonym, 21 1 
Syringa, Philadelphus 
