Part 114

Staminate flower, xxix

Staminodia, xxix

Stem, xxii

Stigma, xxix

Stipules, xxiii

Style, xxix

Tuber, xxiii

Umbel, xxvii

Veinlets, xxiv

GLOSSARY

Abortive, defective or barren.

Acuminate, ending in a tapering point.

Adnate, growing to; or said of an anther whose cells are borne upon the sides of the apex of the filament.

Appendage, any superadded part.

Appressed, lying flat against or together for the whole length.

Arborescent, treelike; approaching the size of a tree.

Attenuate, slenderly tapering to a point.

Auricle, a small earlike lobe at the base of a leaf.

Awn, a bristle-shaped appendage.

Barb, a sharply reflexed point upon an awn, etc., like the barb of a fish-hook.

Basifixed, attached by the base or lower end.

Beak, a narrow or prolonged tip.

Bifid, two-cleft to the middle or thereabouts.

Bilabiate, two-lipped.

Blade, the expanded portion of a leaf, petal, etc.

Bract, one of the leaves of a flower-cluster.

Bracteate, furnished with bracts.

Bractlet, a bract of the ultimate grade; as one inserted on a pedicel or ultimate flower-stalk instead of under it.