438 Glossary 
Striate—Marked with slender longitudi- 
nal grooves or channels. 
Strict—Close and narrow; straight and 
narrow. 
Strigose—Beset with appressed, rigid 
bristles or hairs. 
Strobilus—Strobile—Cone—A  cone-like 
or head-like fruit, as in hop and pine. 
Strophiole—Caruncle. 
Style—The beak-like prolongation of the 
pistil above the ovary, which bears the 
stigma. 
Stylopodium—An enlargement at the base 
of the style, found in Umbellaceae and 
some other plants. 
Sub- —About, nearly, somewhat. 
Subulate—Awl-shaped. 
Succulent—Juicy or pulpy. 
Sucker—A shoot from subterranean 
branches. 
Suffrutescent—Slightly shrubby or woody 
at the base only. 
Superior (ovary)—The ovary free from 
the calyx to its base. 
Suture—The line of junction of contigu- 
ous parts that seem to have grown ‘to- 
gether. 
Sympetalous— With united petals. 
Syngenesious—With stamens united by 
their anthers. 
Tap-root—A stout ‘vertical root which 
continues the main axis of the plant. 
Tawny—Dull yellowish with a tinge of 
brown. 
Tendril—A thread-shaped process used 
for climbing. 
Terete—Circular in cross section. 
Ternate—In 3’s. 
2-ternate—Biternate. 
Tetra~- —4. 
Tetradynamous—With four stamens long- 
er than the other two. 
Thorn—Spine. 
Throat—The orifice of a gamopetalous 
corolla or calyx; the region between the 
tube proper and the limb. 
Thyrsus—A compact and Grams) pan- 
icle. 
‘Tomentose—Clothed with oer woolly 
hairs. 
Tomentum—RMatted woolly hairs. 
Toothed—Furnished with teeth or short 

projections of any sort on the margin; 
used especially when these are sharp, 
like saw-teeth, and do not point for- 
ward. 
Torulose—Knobby; where a cylindrical 
body is swollen at intervals. 
i= 25. 
Trifid—3-clefi. 
Trigonous—3-angled. 
‘Triquetrous—Sharply 3-angled; and spe- 
cially with the sides concave. 
Truncate—Ending abruptly, as if cut off 
transversely. 
Tuber—A thickened portion of a subter- 
ranean stem or branch. 
Tubercle—A small excrescence. 
 Tunicate—Invested with layers as an on- 
ion. 
‘Turbinate—T op-shaped. 
Turgid—Swollen; thick as if swollen. 
Twining—Ascending by soiling round a 
support, like the hop. 
Umbel—The umbrella-like form of in- 
florescence. 
Umbellate—In umbels. 
Umbellet—A secondary. or partial umbel. 
Unarmed—Destitue of spines, prickles, 
and the like. 
Uncinate—Hook-shaped; hooked at the 
end. . 
Undulate—Wavy or wavy-margined. 
Unequally pinnate—Odd-pinnate. 
Unguiculate—With a claw or narrow 
base. 
Gai 2h; 
Unisexual—Having only one kind of sex- 
organs; applied also to flowers having 
only stamens or pistils. 
Urceolate—Urn-shaped. 
Utricle—A small thin-walled one seenen 
fruit. 
Valvate—Opening by valves; in the bud, 
meeting by the edges without overlap- 
ping. 
Valve—One of the pieces into which a 
dehiscent pod or any similar body 
splits. 
Veins—The fibrovascular strands” ina 
leaf or other organ. | 
Venation—The veining of Teac etc. 
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