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_Squamula._ A reduced scale, as the hypogynous scales in Gra.s.ses.
_Squarrose._ Having spreading and projecting processes, such as the tips of involucral scales.
_Squarrulose._ Diminutively squarrose.
_Stamen._ One of the pollen-bearing or fertilizing organs of the flower.
_Staminodium._ A sterile stamen, or any structure without anther corresponding to a stamen.
_Standard._ The upper dilated petal of a papilionaceous corolla.
_Stellate, Stelliform._ Star-shaped.
_Stem._ The main ascending axis of a plant.
_Sterile._ Unproductive, as a flower without pistil, or stamen without an anther.
_Stigma._ That part of a pistil through which fertilization by the pollen is effected.
_Stigmatic._ Belonging to or characteristic of the stigma.
_Stipe._ The stalk-like support of a pistil; the leaf-stalk of a Fern.
_Stipitate._ Having a stipe.
_Stipular._ Belonging to stipules.
_Stipulate._ Having stipules.
_Stipule._ An appendage at the base of a petiole or on each side of its insertion.
_Stolon._ A runner, or any basal branch that is disposed to root.
_Stoloniferous._ Producing stolons.
_Stoma_ (pl. _Stomata_). An orifice in the epidermis of a leaf communicating with internal air-cavities.
_Striate._ Marked with fine longitudinal lines or ridges.
_Strict._ Very straight and upright.
_Strigose._ Beset with appressed sharp straight and stiff hairs.
_Strobile._ An inflorescence marked by imbricated bracts or scales, as in the Hop and Pine-cone.
_Strophiole._ An appendage at the hilum of certain seeds.
_Style._ The usually attenuated portion of the pistil connecting the stigma and ovary.
_Stylopodium._ A disk-like expansion at the base of a style, as in Umbelliferae.
_Sub_-. A Latin prefix, usually signifying somewhat or slightly.
_Subulate._ Awl-shaped.
_Succubous_ (leaves). Having the upper margin of a leaf covered by the base of the one above.
_Succulent._ Juicy; fleshy.
_Suffrutescent._ Slightly or obscurely shrubby.
_Suffruticose._ Very low and woody; diminutively shrubby.
_Sulcate._ Grooved or furrowed.
_Superior_ (ovary). Free from the calyx.
_Suspended_ (ovule). Hanging from the apex of the cell.
_Suture._ A line of dehiscence.
_Symmetrical_ (flower). Regular as to the number of its parts; having the same number of parts in each circle.
_Synonym._ A superseded or unused name.
_Tail._ Any slender terminal prolongation.
_Terete._ Having a circular transverse section.
_Terminal._ At or belonging to the apex.
_Ternary._ Consisting of three.
_Ternate._ In threes.
_Tetradynamous._ Having four long and two shorter stamens.
_Tetragonal._ Four-angled.
_Thalamiflorous._ Having the parts of the flower hypogynous.
_Thalloid, Thallose._ Resembling a thallus.
_Thallus._ In Cryptogams, a cellular expansion taking the place of stem and foliage.
_Throat._ The orifice of a gamopetalous corolla or calyx; the part between the proper tube and the limb.
