Stem. The main axis or body of a plant, the common supporter of branches, leaven, flowers and fruit. Stemless; having no visible or atrial stem•, applied to plants where the stem ie suppressed, or so short as to be apparently wanting.
Sterile; 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.
Stigmatic; belonging, or relating to the stigma. Stigmatiferaus, or stigmatoee; bearing, or belonging to, the stigma. • Stip& A little pedicel, or footetalk, of seeds, etc. Btipeltate; furnished with stipeiles; i. e. the stipules of leaflets, in compound leaves.
Stipelles. The sepulsr appendages, or little stipules, of leaflets, in compound leaves.
Btipitate; having a stipe ; supported on a little pedicel. Stipitiform; resembling a snipe.
Btipular ; belonging, or relating, to stipules.
Stipulate; famished with stipules.
Stipules. Leaflets, or leaf-like appendages, at the base of a jpetiole, or leaf.
Stoles (i. e., etolons —corruptly stools). The ahoota, suckers, or off-sets, from the base of the stem, or roots ' of plants; usually applied to young winter grain, as _ wheat, etc. (See Tiller.) Btoloniferous; having sualfers, off-sets, or running shobts (stolones), from the base of the stem, or crown of the root.
Stem. •Fine parallel ridges or lines.
Striate; marked with longitudinal lines, or stripes. Striate-sukate; scored with minute longitudinal grooves and ridges.
Strict; straight and rigidly upright.
Strigose; armed with spreading bristly hairs, which taper from base to apex.
Strobile. The cone, or collective fruit, of Pines, Fire, etc. Btrophiole. A little crown, or fungous appendage to the hilum of a seed.
Style. The columnar (usually slender) portion of the matt]; between the ovary and the stigma, sometimes wanting.
Styliferous; bearing or producing a style, or styles. Biylopodium. The foot or thickened base of the style (or united styles) at the junction with the epigynoue disk, as in Umbeilkierce Sub; a preposition signifying ender, 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 anb-aessile, nearly sesaile, etc.
Suberose; of a texture resembling cork.
Bubu/atei shaped like an t‘wl-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. Sun ate; furrowed, or grooved.
Super, or supra; a preposition signifying above or upon, beyond or more than, ae super-axillary, situated above the axil.
Super, or supra-decompound; 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.sion; the non-production, or failure in the devel opment of an organ.
Surcutose; bearing suckers, or off-sets.
Suspended ovulee, 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 nesious, having the anthers united, as in the Com positce.
Synonym. Another name for the same thing.
Tenacious; sticky or adhesive; also holding on by means of very email hooked points.
A flliform twining branch, or appendage, by which 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 summit.
Ternary; arranged in threes; consisting of three parte, or elements.
Ternate; three-fold; three together, as the leaflets of clo ver, etc.
Tessellated; resembling mosaic work; in little squares, or cheekera, like a chess-board.
Testa. The outer integument, or proper coat, of a seed. Tetradynamous; having four long and two short stamens, in a eructate flower.