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Spo’RoPHYLL.—A spore bearing leaf. 
Spur.—A tubular or saccate appendage of some part of the flower, usually con- 
taining nectar. 
Soquamose’.—Scale-like. 
STA’MEN.—A male organ of the flower producing pollen. 
Sram’inopE.—An abortive and sterile stamen, or any body without an anther 
occupying the normal place of a stamen. 
Srrc’ma (pl. stegma’ta).—A cell containing a warty silicious body adherent to the 
surface of a sclerenchyma fiber, and occurring in various palms, orchids, the 
Scitaminea, etc. 
Str’LE.—All the structures within the usual type of endodermis. 
STEL’LATE.—Star-shaped. 
SteM.—The ascending axis of a plant bearing leaves or leaf modifications. 
Sre’REOME.—The supporting elements of a fibrovascular bundle. 
Srer’1Le.—1. Unproductive, as a stamen without anther, flower without pistil, 
or pericarp without seeds. 2. Devoid of living organisms. 
STERILIZA’TION.—The process of riding an object of all living organisms. 
Stic’/mA.—That part of a pistil or carpel which receives the pollen. 
Stipe.—The stem of a moss; the stalk of a fern frond; the stalk of a toadstool or 
other fungus. 
Srip’ULATE.— Possessing stipules. 
Srip’ute.—A modified leaf, usually blade-like and situated at the base of the leaf- 
stalk. : 
Sro’Lon.—A slender running branch above or below the surface of the soil, either 
capable of taking root or bearing a bulb at its end. 
STOLONIF’EROUs.—Bearing stolons. 
Sro’/MA (Stomate).—A minute opening for the passage of gases and water vapor m 
the epidermis, surrounded by two guard cells, which usually have the power to 
enlarge and reduce the opening. Also employed for the opening in the epi- 
dermis with the guard and accessory cells. 
Srom’ATA.—Plural for stoma. 
SromAt’AL ApPARA’TUS.—The stoma with its surrounding guard cells and neigh- 
boring cells. 
Sromat’AL CHAmM’BER.—The intercellular-air-space directly beneath the stoma. 
SrRAND.—Applied to any tissue or group of tissues forming a narrow, more or less 
cylindrical mass extending longitudinally through the plant or plant organ. 
Strri’Ate.—Marked with fine longitudinal lines or grooves. 
Srricose’.—Covered with sharp and rigid appressed hairs. 
Srros’1Le.—A scaly multiple fruit consisting of a scale-bearing axis, each scale of 
which encloses one or more seeds. A cone. 
Stone Cexis (Sclerenchyma Cells, Sclereids).—Isodiametric or moderately elon- 
gated parenchyma cells modified by thickenings, lignification of the cell 
wall and loss of protoplasmic contents. 
Stry_e.—That portion of a pistil connecting the ovary with the stigma. 
StyLopo’ptum.—The fleshy disk directly above the ovarian portion of an Um- 
belliferous fruit, formed by the expansion of the bases of the two styles. 
Sus.—A prefix of Latin origin meaning under, below, subordinate, nearly or 
partially. 
Su’ser.—Cork tissue, 
