schistose 



Sclerotium 



scnis'tose, schisto'sus, slaty, as to 

 tint. 



Schistog'amae (CTXTTOS cleft, yd/i,os, a 

 marriage), used by Ardissone to 

 designate the Characeae ; Schist'o- 

 gams, Schist.ogam'ia, Camel's terms 

 for the same. 



ScM'zocarp (ff-xifa, I split, /CU/STI-OS, 

 fruit), a pericarp which splits into 

 one-seeded portions, mericarps or 

 " split - fruits " ; schizogenet'ic 

 (7^05, offspring), formed by split- 

 ting ; ~ intercellular Spaces are 

 formed by the separation of tissue 

 elements owing to the splitting of 

 the common wall of the cells ; 

 schizogen'ic Devel'opment, develop- 

 ment arising from division ; 

 schizog'enous, schizo^enetic ; 



schizo-lysig'enou.3 (Averts, a loosing), 

 arising from splitting or tear- 

 ing of the tissues, applied by 

 Tschirch to those cavities which 

 arise at first from splitting of 

 the cell-wall, but are enlarged 

 by the breaking down of sur- 

 rounding tissues ; schizolyt'ic, 

 applied to those gemmae which are 

 detached by splitting through the 

 middle- lamellae of the cells 

 (Correns) ; Schizomyce'tes (/J-VK^S, 

 a fungus), Naegeli's term for bac- 

 teria (Cohn) ; Schizophy'tae (tpvrbv, 

 a plant), was also used by Cohn for 

 the preceding ; Schi'zophytes, plants 

 which increase by fission; Scliizo- 

 spor'eae (<riropa., a seed), a name 

 proposed by Cohn for the Schizo- 

 mycetes ; Schizoste'ly (0^77X77, a 

 column), when the single primitive 

 stele breaks up into as many 

 distinct strands as there are vas- 

 cular bundles ; adj. schizoste'lous. 



scim'itar-shaped, acinaciform. 



Sci'on, a young shoot, a twig used for 

 grafting. 



Scirpe'tum, Warming's term for an 

 association of Scirpus plants. 



Scis'sion (scissio, a cleaving) Lay'er 

 = ABSCISS - LAYER ; scissip'arous 

 (pario, I bring forth), used for 

 FISSIPAROUS, as bacteria. 



sciu'roid, sciuroi'des, sciuroi'deus 



(ffictovpos, a squirrel, etSos, resem- 

 blance), curved and bushy, like a 

 squirrel's tail. 



Sclerau'thium (aK\rjpos, hard, avQos, 

 a flower), an achene enclosed in an 

 indurated portion of the calyx- 

 tube, as in Mirabilis ; Sclerench'- 

 yma (tyxv/M, an infusion), (1) 

 formerly applied to stone-cells, 

 SCLEREIDS; (2) afterwards proposed 

 for bast or lib r cells, which are 

 immensely thickened, with their 

 protoplasm lost ; ~ Cells, all 

 thick-walled cells which retain 

 their protoplasm (Tschirch) ; 

 adj. sclerenchy'matous ; as ~ 

 Tis'sue, composed of thick-walled 

 cells ; Scle'reid, a sclerotic or stone- 

 cell, a strongly thickened or ligni- 

 fied cell ; it is sometimes spelled 

 Scle'rid ; scle'rised, sclerosed ; 

 Scler'oolast (/SXacn-os, a bud), a 

 stone-cell, or sclereid ; Scler'ogen 

 (yevos, offspring), the hard lig- 

 nified deposits in such cells as 

 those which compose the shell 

 of the walnut, or grit-cells of the 

 pear ; Sclerogen'ia, Berkeley's 

 term for induration of parts 

 amounting to a disease ; scle'roid, 

 scleroi'dus (elSos, resemblance), 

 having a hard texture ; sclerophyl'- 

 lus (<t>vX\ov, a leaf), having hard 

 and stiff leaves ; scleropoi'dus (TTOUS, 

 TTOOOS, a foot), when persistent 

 peduncles become hard and horny ; 

 sclero'sed, hardened, lignided ; 

 Sclero'sis, the hardening of a 

 tissue or cell-wall by lignification 

 of a membrane or intercellular 

 deposits ; Sclerote', a proposed 

 emendation of SCLEROTIUM ; 

 sclero'tic, hardened, stony in 

 texture ; <- Cells, grit-cells or 

 sclereids ; ~ Parsnch'yma, grit- 

 cells or stone-cells in pears, etc. ; 

 Sclero'tiet, A. S. Wilson's name for 

 a small SCLEROTIUM ; small concre- 

 tions of lime have been also so 

 termed, in error ; sclero'tioid,sclero'- 

 toid (elSos, resemblance), like a 

 sclerotium ; Sclero'tium, pi. Sclero'- 

 tia, (1) a compact mass of hyphae in 



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