stem 



stemotribal 



ra'nean ~, a rhizome; stem'less, 

 having no visible stem, acaulous; 

 Stem'let, a small stem, such as the 

 plumule. 



Btenocar'pus {ar'fvos, narrow ; Kapirbs, 

 fruit), narrow fruited ; stenocho'ric 

 [xwpfw, I spread abroad), applied to 

 a family, genus or species, with a 

 range of distribution over a narrow 

 area of constant climate, and con 

 fined to one, or very few, plant- 

 formations (Drude) ; Stenocho'ry is 

 the state in question ; stenoharine 

 (&.K5, a\os, salt), applied to organ- 

 isms which can endure only 3 or 

 4 percent of salt in solution (Forel) ; 

 st^nopet'alous {trfraKov, a flower- 

 leaf), narrow-petalled ; stenopho'tic 

 {<P(iSy (pwrbs, light), requiring a con- 

 stant amount of light, within 

 narrow variation ; stenophyrious, 

 •his {(pvWov, a leaf), (1) narrow 

 leaved ; (2) Beccari's term for plants 

 on river banks, etc., with linear or 

 very narrow leaves; Stenoph'yllism is 

 the state in question ; Steno'sis, (1) 

 cell-formation with constriction of 

 the original cell-wall ; (2) the con- 

 traction of a passage ; stenother'mic 

 {Oepfirj, heat), needing a uniform 

 temperature. 



stephanocar'pus (o-Tct^aj/wSTjy, wreath- 

 ing ; Kapirbs, fruit), with fruit ar- 

 ranged so as to resemble a crown ; 

 Stephanodophy'tum {(pvrhv, a plant), 

 a plant producing an inferior achene, 

 as Compositae. 



itephanokon'tan, relating to Stepha- 

 nokontae, a class of green Algae, 

 whose zoospores are characterised 

 by a crown of cilia round the 

 anterior end. 



Steph'anoum {<ni(pavos, a crown), a 

 synonym of Cremocarp and Cyp- 



SELA. 



Steppe, a wide, treeless plain of grass- 

 land (Schimper) ; cf. Prairie, 

 Pampas ; --' -pe'riod, a time fol- 

 lowing the Tfndra-period in 

 Switzerland, when steppe plants 

 were dominant. 



Ster'eid {(mpths, solid), a lignified 

 cell from the stereorae. 



stereodonta^ceons, allied to the genus 



Stereodon. 

 Stereogen'nylae [ffTtpths, solid ; yivos, 

 race ; vK-q = materia), Radlkofer's 

 term for Bryophytes; Ster'eom or 

 Ster'eome, the elements of a bundle 

 which impart strength to it, the 

 fibres, or strengthening tissue 

 giBuerally (Schwendener) ; stereo- 

 mat'ic, resembling or composed of 

 S TEREOME ; Stereone'ma, pi. Stereo- 

 ne'mata, solid threads which make 

 up the capillitium in Fuligo (Zopf) ; 

 Ster'eoplasm {irKda-fjLa, moulded), the 

 solid part of protoplasm (Naegeli) ; 

 stereosperrn'oas {a-ir^p/xa, a seed), 

 with solid seed (Heinig); Stereo- 

 taxis (T£{|ts, order) = Thigmotaxis ; 

 Stereot'ropism {rpoir^, a turning), 

 a definite direction towards the 

 substratum (Loeb). 



Sterig'ma, pi. Sterig'mata {(TT-f}piy/j.a, 

 a prop), (1) in Fungi, a stalk from 

 which a spore is abjointed ; (2) 

 any leafy prolongation or elevated 

 line from the blade of a leaf down 

 the stem by decurrence; (8) 

 Desvaux's nam© for Carcerule; 

 Sterig'mum is a synonym of the 

 last definition. 



sterile, ster'ilis (Lat. ), (1) barren, as 

 a flower destitute of pistil, or a 

 stamen wanting the anther ; (2) 

 used for a male or staminate 

 flower; (3) free from living organ- 

 isms, 'such as bacteria ; '~ Basid'ium, 

 a body in the hymenium of Agarics 

 like a basidium, but not producing 

 spores, possibly a paraphysis ; '- 

 Cells, cells of unknown function in 

 the pollen-grains of Cycas and 

 microspores of Isoetes and Selag- 

 inclla ; Steririty, Steril'itas (Lat.), 

 barrenness, incapacity of producing 

 seeds ; Self '~' , when the pollen is 

 inactive on the stigmas of the same 

 flower (Knuth); Steriliza'tion, the 

 act of sterilizing ; ster'ilize, to make 

 free from living organisms or their 

 germs. 



stemotri'bal {arepvov, the , breast ; 

 rpl&<t), I beat), Delpino's term for 

 those flowers whose anthers are so 



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