8tup& 



subazillary 



Eart of flax), a taft or mass of 

 air or filaments matted together ; 

 stu'peous, stu'peus or stup'peus, 

 woolly; stu'pose, stupo'sus, tow- 

 like, with tufts of long hairs. 



•tyg'ius {Styx, Styyis, an infernal 

 river), used of plants which grow 

 in foul waters. 



itylar (stylus, from o-tOAos, a column), 

 relating to the style, as --' Brush, 

 the collecting hairs of flowers, cf. 

 Collectors ; --' Canal', the tube or 

 loose tissue through which the 

 pollen -tubes pass ; -^ Corumn, the 

 column of Orchids ; -^ Foot = Sty- 

 lopodium; sty'lans ( + Style), 

 used by Burchell for a gradual en- 

 largement of the style into the ovary ; 

 gtyla'tus (Lat.) = stylosus ; Style. 

 Sty'lus, (1) the usually attenuated 

 part of a pistil or carpel between 

 the ovary and the stigma ; -^ of 

 Hepaticae, = Interlobule ; ^ of 

 Mosses, (1) an old term for the neck 

 of the archegonium ; (2) the ostiole 

 of certain Fungi (Lindley) ; Style- 

 ta'ble, used by Haworth for the 

 flattened apex of the style in Ascle- 

 piads; stylifonn, styliformHs {forma, 

 shape), style-shaped, drawn out ; 

 stylif' erous {fero, I bear), bearing a 

 style; styli'uus (Lat.), belonging to 

 the style ; Styliplank'ton ( -f Plank- 

 ton), floating neritic vegetation 

 composed of Rhizosolenia siyliformisi 

 Stylis'cui == Stylar Canal. 



•tylo'deuf (Lat.), furnished with a 

 style ; Stylod'ium, Mod. Lat. from 

 Stylus, (1) a style-like stigma, 

 as in grasses, and Compositae ; (2) 

 a false style, as the appendages to 

 the anthers of Cynomorium. 



Stylogonid'ium (<rTOA.oy, a column, + 

 Gonidum), a gonidium formed by 

 abstriction from special hyphae in 

 such Fungi as Aecidiomycetes and 

 Basidioniycctes, that is, uredo-, 

 teleuto-, and basidio-spores •, Sty'- 

 loids, pi. (elSoj, resemblance), colum- 

 nar crystals occurring in plant-cells 

 (Solereder); Sty'lopod, Stylopod'ium 

 (iroi>j, trohhs, a foot), the enlargement 

 at the base of the styles in Umbelli' 



ferae ; sty'lose, stylo'sus, having 

 styles of a remarkable length or per- 

 sistence; Sty'lospore {aiTopa, a seed), 

 a spoie borne on a filament; adj. 

 stylosp'orous ; Stylosteg'ium (o-Te-yrj, 

 a roof), a peculiar hood surrounding 

 the slyle, asin Asclepiads; Styloste'- 

 mon I {ariifxwu, a filament), an epi- 

 gynous stamen; styloste'mus, her- 

 maphrodite ; Styloteg'ium {Teyos, a 

 covering) = Stylostegium ; Sty'lus 

 = Style. 



styp'ticus (Lat. from arwriKhs, astrin- 

 gent) ; usually implies use to stanch 

 a wound. 



Sty'rax, or Stor'ax, (1) a solid resin 

 from Styrax officinale, Linn, ; (2) 

 at the present day a similar balsa- 

 mic resin from Liquidambar sty- 

 racifiaa, Linn. 



styrido'phytus {aravphs, a cross ; 

 (pvThv, a plant), with cruciform 

 petals (J. S. Henslow) 



suav'eolent, suav'eolens (Lat.), sweet- 

 smelling, fragrant. 



sub (Lat.), under or below, in com- 

 pounds usually implies an approach 

 to the condition designated, some- 

 what, or slightly ; subacau'lis (-}- 

 ACAULis), with the stem hardly ap- 

 parent: suVacute (+ acute), some- 

 what acute; subarc'tic (+ arctic), 

 northern plants above the limit 

 of cultivation ; cf. infer- arctic ; 

 subaer'ial {a€rius, airy), situated 

 almost on the ground level, as a 

 rhizome which is covered with leaves, 

 etc. , but above the soil ; subarpine 

 (-f alpine), applied to vegetation 

 above the general limit of vegetation 

 but below the uppermost series or 

 alpine ; subapicula'ris (-f- apicu- 

 laris), when the stem is prolonged 

 beyond an inflorescence without 

 branch or leaf; Bubapic'ulate, with 

 an ill-defined point ; subarbores'cent 

 (-f arbohescent), with a tendency 

 to become somewhat tree-like; 

 subarchespor'ial (-f archesporial) 

 Pad, Bower's term for a cushion-like 

 group of cells below the archesporium 

 in Lycopodium ; subaz'ile (-f-AXiLE), 

 nearly subaxil'lary, below the axil ; 



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