.Stellate; like a star; arranged like the rays of a star. Stellular; radiating after the manner of little stars. Stellular pubescence. Compound or fasciculate hairs, with the branches spreading like rays.
Stem. The main axis or body of a plant, the common supporter of branches, leaves, flowers and fruit. Stemless; having no visible or aerial stem; applied to plants the stem is suppressed, or so short as to be apparently wanting.
.Ster. le ; barren, or unproductive; applied to flowers which produce no fruit.
Stigma. The summit of the style, or that portion of the pistil through which the pollen acts.
Stigma helunging, or relating to the stigma. ..S.igniatiferoue, or stigrnatose; or belonging to, the stigma.
Stipe. A little pedicel, or footstalk, of seeds, etc. Mipeltate; furnished with stipelles; i. e. the stipules of leaflets, in compound leaves.
.Stipellee. The stipular appendages, or little stipules, of leaflets, in compound leaves.
.Stipitate; having a rtipe ; supported on a little pedicel. Btipitiform; resembling a stipe.
Bit". Jar ; belonging, or relating, to stipules.
Stipulate; furnished with stipules.
Stipules. Leaflets, or leaf-like appendages, at the base of a petiole, or leaf.
Stoles . e., stolons — corruptly stools). The shoots, suckers, or off-sets, from the base of the stem, or routs of plants; usually applied to young winter grain, as wheat, etc. (See Tiller.) .Stolo ,iferoue; having suckers, off-sets, or running shoots (stolones), from the base of the stem, or crown of the root.
-Strife. Fine parallel ridges or lines.' Striate; marked with longitudinal lines, or stripes. Striate-sulca e; scored with minute longitudinal grooves and ridges.
Strict; straight and rigidly upright.
Strigose; armed with lipreading bristly hairs, which taper from base to apex.
.Strobile. The cone, or collective fruit, of Pines, Firs, etc. Strophio 'e. A little crown, or fungous appendage to the hilum of a seed.
Style. The columnar (usually slender) portion of the pistil, between the ovary and the stigma, sometimes wanting.
Stylifero ; beating or producing a style, or styles.
S. ylopodium. The foot or thickened base of the style (or styles), et the junction with the epigynous disk, as in Umbeiiiferce.
Bub; a preposition signifying under, or a division, as a sub-class, sub-order, etc.; also employed as a diminu tive, or qualifying term,equivalent to almost, somewhat, or about, as sub-sessile, nearly sessile, etc.
Suberose; of a texture resembling cork.
Subalate; shaped like an awl-blade• linear or cylindric below; angular and tapering to a sharp point at summit. Succulent; juicy; full of juice.
Sucker. A shoot, or off-set, from the root, Or base of the stem.
Suffrutescent; almost shrubby.
suffrutic se; somewhat shrubby ; shrubby at base. Sus, ate; furrowed, or grooved.
Super, or supra; a preposition signifying above or upon, beyond or more than, as super-axillary, situated above the nail.
Super, or supra-decompo ad ; more than decompound many times subdivided, or compound.
Superior; above; a term applied to the ovary when it is above the calyx, or free in the flower; also to the calyx, when the tube is adherent to the ovary, and the segments borne on its summit.
Suppre..eion; the non-production, or failure in the devel opment of an organ.
S urcu'ose; beating suckers, or off-sets.
Suspended ovules, or seeds. When they are attached to the summit of the ovary, or pericarp, and hang perpen dicularly in the cavity.
Suture. The the line or seam, formed by the junction of two margins.
Symmetrical flower. When there is an equal number of parts in each series, or verticil.
Synge esious, having the anthers united, as in the Com posit( e.
Synonym. Another name for the same thing.
acio us; sticky or adhesive; also holding on by means of very small hooked points.
Tendril. A filiform twining branch, or appendage, by which some plants climb, or sustain themselves; in the grape vine, it is au abortive raceme.
Terete; round, like a column, and either cylindric or taper ing; applied to stems, or stem-like bodies. (See Orbicu lar.) Terminal; situated at, or proceeding from, the end or sumini t.
Ternary; arranged in threes; consisting of three parts, or elements.