Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stigmatic disk ; a broad surface at the top of the style, or form- ing the whole of it, upon which the stigmas are placed. >S^())e; the stalk o Ferns up to the lowest pinna. Stipulvs; leatlike appendages at the hase of the petiole. Slipulodes ; spines beneath the whorls of branches in Chara. Stole; a lax trailing shoot from the crown of the root, rooting at intervals. Sfoloniferous; having stoles. Stomates; minute organic openings in the skin of plants. Strapshaped; not very narrow nor long, and with nearly parallel sides. Streak; a straight line of pecuhar colour or structui'e, or a furrow. Stria:; very slight furrows or ridges. Striate; with slender streaks or furrows. Striped; having colour.'d streaks. Stripes ; the vittfe of Umbellifers. Stt/le; the space between the ovary and stigma. Stylopode ; a fleshy dislc crowning the ovary aud supporting the style of Umbellifers. Sub ; in composition means a near approach to ; as subrotund is nearly round. Subulate; awlshaped, tapering from the base to a fine point, a long narrow triangle. Sucker; a stem produced at the end of an underground shoot. Superior ; abovf^ any thing; a calyx is superior when its tube is wliolly attached to the ovary, half-superior when attached only to the lower half of it; an ovary is superior when wholly free from the calyx ; a part of a flower placed next to the axis. Suspended ovules hang down from near the top of tlu; ovary. Suture; the line of junction of similar organs colieriiig. Swordshaped; very long, narrow, nearly parallel-sided, sliarp- cdged, acute. Sympode; a stem formed of a series of superposed branches so as to resemble a contiiuious axis. Syncarpous ; fruit formed of cohering carpels. SytiyenesidHs flowers form a head and have 5 stamens witli united antliers. Tnited; liaving a long .slender point. 'Tassvl-hke; resembling a sillicii lasscd or painler's camcl's-hair pencil. Tendril; a twisting slender organ for laying hold of objects. Terete; liaving a nearly round tranHVcrse section. Ternale ; growing in threes about the same point of a stem.