

stans 



stellular 



petal of a papilionaceous corolla ; 

 (2) a tree or bush with a clear stem. 



stans (Lat., standing), supporting 

 itself in an erect position. 



Star-rings, small central steles in the 

 fossil Medulloseae. 



Starch, a carbohydrate of the same 

 percentage composition as cellulose ; 

 an amylose which occurs abund- 

 antly in grains as a reserve material 

 in plants ; ~ Buil'der, a plastid 

 which forms the starch-grain ; ~ 

 Cellulose, the framework of starch- 

 grains, remaining after the soluble 

 parts have been removed ; ~ 

 Genera'tors = LEUCOPLASTIDS ; ~ 

 Grain, ~ Gran'ule, a body of de- 

 finite shape, varying according to 

 the plant which produces it, having 

 the appearance of parallel layers 

 around a hilum ; ~ Lay'er, a form 

 of Bundle Sheath, consisting of a 

 single layer of cells filled with 

 small grains of starch ; ~ Pro- 

 du'cer = LEUCOPLASTID ; ~ Star 

 of Chara stelliyera, Bauer, stellate 

 nodules or internodes on the roots, 

 filled with starch ; ~ Sub'stance, 

 A. Meyer's term for the pure- 

 starch material, apart from any 

 associated or transformed matters 

 which may be also present. 



star'ry, stellate. 



starved, when a plant or part is less 

 developed than the normal con- 

 dition, by want of nourishment. 



Stas'imorphy (<rrd<ns, a standing or 

 pause, /j-opcpT], shape), a deviation 

 from the normal arising from arrest 

 of development ; Stas'is, used to 

 denote the retardation especially 

 of longitudinal growth. 



State, the most trivial variation from 

 the type. 



Sta'tion (xtatio, a standing still), 

 botanically means a particular 

 locality for a given plant. 



Statosper'mus (orai-os, standing still, 

 <rirep[j.a., a seed), when a seed is 

 straight or erect within the peri- 

 carp ; Stat'ospore (airopa, a seed), 

 a resting spore. 



Staurogam'ia (aravpos, a stake or 



cross, yd/xoj, marriage), Delpino's 

 term for cross-fertilization ; adj. 

 staurogam'ic ; Stau'ros, in Diatoms, 



(1) the central nodule of the valve ; 



(2) a transverse band without 

 markings ; staurophyl'lus (<jj\\oi>, 

 a leaf), cruciate. 



Ste'arin (areap, suet), an abundant 

 ingredient of animal and vegetable 

 fats ; Stearop'tene ( + wTyvhs, winged 

 = volatile), a solid crystallizable 

 matter allied to camphor, present 

 in many essential oils. 



Steg'ium (ffreyrj, a roof or covering), 

 term proposed by Miers for the 

 thread-like appendages sometimes 

 found covering the style of Ascle- 

 piads ; Steg'mata, pi. flat, tabular 

 cells in certain Ferns, etc., contain- 

 ing a mass of silica in contact with 

 their inner wall (Mettenius) ; also 

 termed Covering-plate ; stegocar'- 

 pous (/t-ctpTTos, fruit), applied to those 

 Mosses whose capsules have a dis- 

 tinct operculum. 



ste'lar (or^X?;, a pillar), possessing a 

 stele ; Stele, an axial cylinder of 

 tissue passing from the plerome into 

 the older tissues, in which the vas- 

 cular tissue is developed ; some- 

 times more than one,c/. POLYSTELY, 

 SCHIZOSTELY ; ste'lic, relating to 

 a stele or its tissues. 



Stelid'ium, pi. Stelid'ia (or^Xi'Stop, a 

 small pillar), Ridley's term for the 

 teeth of the column in Bulbophyl- 

 lum. 



stellate, stella'tus(La.t., starry), star- 

 shaped or radiating like the points 

 of a star ; ~ Hairs, hairs of a star- 

 like form ; ~ Scales, trichomes, 

 discs borne by their edge or centre ; 

 stelliferus (fero, I bear), star- 

 bearing ; stelliform'is (forma, 

 shape), star-shaped ; stellig'erus 

 (gero, I bear), star-bearing or pro- 

 ducing ; stella'to-pilo'sus, covered 

 with stellate hairs ; stelliner'vius 

 (nerms, a nerve), star-ribbed, as 

 the leaves of Hydrocotyle vulgaris, 

 Linn. ; Stel'lula (Lat., a little star), 

 (1) a whorl of perigonial leaves in 

 Mosses ; (2) a small rosette ; stel'- 



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