style wort

[Eng. style (2), and wort.] Botany: 1. The genus Stylidium (q. v.). 2. ( Pl .) The Stylidiacese ( Lindley .) sty-lid-i-ā-çě-æ, subst. pl. [Mod. Latin styl idi(um); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot.: Style worts; an order of Epigynous Exogens, alliance Campana les. Herbs or under-shrubs; the hairs, if present, sometimes glandular; leaves scattered, sometimes whorled, exstipulate, entire, their margins naked or ciliated. Pedicels of the flowers generally with three bracts; calyx superior, with two to six divisions, two-lipped or regular, persistent; corolla monopetalous, its limb generally irregular, with five to six divisions. Stamens two. filaments connate with the style into a longitudinal column; ovary with two, rarely with one cell, many seeded. Fruit capsular. Swamp plants, chiefly from Australia. Known genera five, species 121. ( Lind ley.)