Stjtsiam 



Stem 



Stasi'iim, a stagnant water forma- 

 tion; staioph'ilus {<pi\4w, I love), 

 dwelling in stagnant water; Staso- 

 phy'ta {(pvrov, a plant), stagnaut 

 water plants (Clements). 

 State, the most trivial variation from 

 the type. 



Statice'tum, an association of Statice, 



Linn. 

 Sta'tion {statio, a standing still ), botanic- 

 ally means a particular locality for a 

 given plant. 



Sta'tocysts (o-totos, standing still ; 

 KvffTiSy a bag), gravitational sense 

 organs, sensory cells containing free 

 starch-gi'ains and ectoplast, sensi- 

 tive to the pressure of these grains 

 (Haberlandt) ; Sta'tocytes = Stato- 

 CYSTs; Sta'tolith (\i0os, stone),8tarch 

 grains regarded as causing curvature 

 by their weight; Bta'toplasts (irAoo-- 

 tSj, nioulded), movable starch grains ; 

 Statosper'muB (o-Trcp/xa, a seed), when 

 a seed is straight or erect within the 

 pericarp ; Sta'tospore (tnropa, a seed), 

 a resting spore. 



Staurogam'ia {(rravpos, a stake or cross ; 

 ydfios, marriage), Delpino's term for 

 cross-fertilization; adj. stanrogam'ic. 



stanromat'ic, resembling the genua 

 ataurovia; isidioid. 



Stau'ros (a-ravphs, a stake or cross), 

 in Diatoms, (1) the central nodule 

 of the valve ; (2) a transverse band 

 without markings ; Staur'ophyll 

 {<pv\\ov, a leaf), Clements's terra for 

 a leaf consisting of palisade cells; 

 staurophyl'lus, cruciate. 



Ste'arin (o-rcop, suet), an abundant 

 ingredient of animal and vegetable 

 fats ; Stearop'tene (ttttjvos, winged 

 = volatile), a solid crystallizalale 

 matter allied to camphor, present 

 in many essential oils. 



Steganochamaephyti'mn {a-reyavos, 

 roofed over, + CHAMAErHYxiUM), 

 dwarf-shrub association under trees 

 (Vahl); Steganocryptophjrti'um ( + 

 Cryptophytium), an association of 

 hemicryptophytes and geophytes 

 under an Uj.per layer (Vahl). 



Stegi'um {areyr}, a roof or covering), 

 term proposed by Miers for the 



thread-like appendages sometimes 

 found covering the style of Ascle- 

 piads ; Steg'mata, pi., flat, tabular 

 cells in certain Ferns, etc., contain- 

 ing a mass of silica in contact with 

 their inner wall (Mettenius) ; also 

 termed Covering-plate; stegocar'pic, 

 stegocar'pous («opiros, fruit), applied 

 to those Mosses whose capsules have 

 a distinct operculum, 

 stelar [ar-fiKv, a pillar), possessin^^ a 

 stele ; Stele, an axial cylinder of 

 tissue passing from the plerome into 

 the older tissues, in which the vas- 

 cular tissue is developed ; sometimes 

 more than one, c/. Polystely, 



SCHIZOSTELY ; (llsO PERIPHERAL '~ ; 



REPARATIVE '-' ; Bte'Uc, relating to 

 a stele or its tissues. 



Stelid'ium, pi. Stelid'ia {(tt7]\IBiov, a 

 smali pillar), Ridley's term for the 

 teeth of the column in Bulbophylhim. 



stel'late, stella'tus (Lat., starry), star- 

 shaped or radiating like the points 

 of a star; '- Hairs, hairs of a star- 

 like form ; -^ Scales, trichomes, 

 discs borne by their edge or centre ; 

 stellif'erous {fero, 1 bear), star- 

 bearing ; stelliform'is {fornia, shape), 

 star-shaped ; stellig'ems [gero, I 

 bear), star-bearing or producing j_ 

 stella'to-pilo'sus, covered with stel- 

 late hairs ; stelliner'vius {nervus, a 

 nerve), star-ribbed, as the leaves of 

 Eydrocotyle vulgaris, Linn.; Stel'lula 

 (Lat., a little star), (1) a whorl of 

 perigonial leaves in Mosses ; (2) a 

 small rosette ; stel'lular, stel'lulate, 

 stellula'tus, diminutive of stellate. 



Stelolem'ma {aTi]Kr}, a pillar; Ke/x^a, 

 bark or skin), a sheath of thickened 

 peridesrhic or stelar tissue in an- 

 giospermous petioles (Strasburger). 



Stem, the main ascending axis; ^ Bud, 

 the plumule ; ^ clasp'ing, amplexi- 

 caul ; ~ -form, in Germ. Stammform, 

 the ancestral form (Kuntze) ; -^ Leaf, 

 a leaf given off from the stem, as 

 opposed to a radical leaf ; '~ Par'asite, 

 a parasitic plant which lives on the 

 stem of its host, as Loranthaceae ;'~' 

 Ten'dril, a tendril which is morpho- 

 logically a stem structure; subter- 



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