aucclse 



Superficies 



abnormal occurrence of resin in 

 fossil amber-trees. 



succise', succi'sus (Lat., cut off), as if 

 abruptly cut or broken off at the 

 lower end. 



suc'cose, succo'sus (Lat., juicy), suc- 

 culent, sappy. 



suc'cubous, -bus (Lat., lying under), 

 the oblique insertion of distichous 

 leaves of Hepaticae, so that the 

 upper overlaps the lower on the 

 dorsal side of the stem, as in 

 Plagiochila. 

 suc'culent, succuhn'tus (Lat., sappy), 



juicy. 

 Suc'cus (Lat., sap), any juice which 



can be expressed from a plant. 

 Suc'ker, (1) a shoot of subterranean 

 origin ; (2) an haustorium, some- 

 times restricted to the penetrating 

 organ or papilla. 



Su' erase (Fr., Sucre, sugar, + ase), = 

 INVERTASE ; Su'crose ( + ose), a 

 group of sugars, such as cane- 

 sugar and maltose. 

 suffrutes'cent, snffrutes cens (sub, 

 somewhat, f rut ex, a shrub), ob- 

 scurely shrubby ; Suffru'tex, an 

 unHershrub ; suffru'ticose, suffru- 

 tico'sus, suffrutic'ulose, somewhat 

 shrubby. 



sufful'tus, (1) supported or propped ; 

 (2) Sufful'tus, a plate or disc form- 

 ing the basis of a bulb ; when much 

 lengthened gives rise to the term 

 Bulbus suffultus (Endlicher). 

 Su'gar, a group of sweet, crystalline 

 substances and soluble in water 

 (sucroses and glucoses) ; Beet ~ 

 extracted from specially selected 

 strains of Beta vulgaris, Linn. ; 

 Cane ~, or saccharose, from Sac- 

 charum officinarum, Linn.; Fruit ~ 

 = LAEVULOSE ; Grape ~ = GLU- 

 COSE or DEXTROSE ; Inver'ted ~ , 

 occurs in some ripe fruits and 

 honeydew ; Ma'ple ~, from Acer 

 saccharinum, Wangenh. ; Palm ~ 

 from species of Arenga, etc. 

 sul'cate, sulca'tus (Lat., furrowed), 



grooved or furrowed. 

 Sul'ci, pi. of Sul'cus, (1) small grooves 

 or FOSSULAE in some Diatom 



valves ; (2) lamellae of certain 

 Fungi (Lindley); sul'ciform (forma, 

 shape) = STJLCATE. 



sulfu'reous, etc., see SULPHURE- 

 OUS, etc. 



Sulphobacter'ia (sulphur, brimstone 

 + BACTERIA), those microbes which 

 reduce sulphur out of its solutions ; 

 sul'phur-col'oured, = SULPHUREUS ; 

 ~Rain, pollen from pines brought 

 by currents of air ; Sulphur ar'ia, 

 Planchard's name for Algae which 

 reduce sulphates from waters con- 

 taining those salts ; sulphurel'lus, 

 slightly sulphur-coloured ; sulphu'- 

 reous, -reus, the colour of brim- 

 stone, a very pale yellow ; 

 sulphures'cens, becoming sulphur- 

 coloured ; sulphuri'nus, sulphury 

 in tint. 



Sum'mer-spore, any spore which 

 germinates quickly, and retains 

 its vitality a short time only, as 

 conidia and iiredospores, in con- 

 trast to winter- or resting-spores. 



Sum'mit, used by Grew and his suc- 

 cessors for ANTHER. 



Sun-plants, plants which prefer full 

 sun-light ; their stems are often 

 short, the leaves have the palisade 

 cells well developed (Willis). 



sup'er (Lat. ), above ; often modified 

 into supra- ; superagrar'ian ( + 

 AGRARIAN), a name applied to a 

 zone which includes the region of 

 vegetation in Great Britain above 

 the limits of cultivation ; super- 

 arc'tic, those plants which are 

 confined to the highest zone in 

 Great Britain, the most alpine of 

 the flora in our islands ; super- 

 axillary, superaxilla'ris ( + AXIL- 

 LARY), growing above an axil ; 

 supercompos'itus = SUPRACOMPOS- 

 ITUS ; Supercres'cence (cresco, I 

 grow), a parasite (Crozier) ; super - 

 cres'cent, growing above or on 

 another body ; superdecom'pound 



= SUPRADECOMPOUND ; Superfe- 



cunda'tion ( + FECUNDATION), the 

 union of more than two gametes. 

 Superficies (Lat., the surface), 

 Cor'poris, ~ Placenta'ris, " the 



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