StabUity 



Stalls 



of fixedness; (2) when the plant makes 

 little or no response (Clements) ; 

 Stab'iloplasts {irKaffros, moulded), 

 elaioplasts which are fixed in number 

 and position. 

 Btag-head'ed, a forester's term for a 

 tree which is bare of leaves at the 

 top. 

 stair'oase Be8ponse^ when successive 

 stimuli by increasing molecular mo- 

 bility greatly enhance responses 

 (Bose). 

 ■tale, botanically when growth ceases 

 in cultures ; Stale'ness (dissyl. ), the 

 condition itself; stalling, becoming 

 stale (Balls). 

 Stalk, any lengthened support of an 

 organ, as the seta of a Moss ; -^ 

 -cell, the cell arising from division 

 of the antheridial cell ir^ Pinus, which 

 does not become the generative cell ; 

 stalked, borne on a stalk ; '^ Gland, 

 a glandular hair ; Stalk'et, a secon- 

 dary petiole, the stalk of leaflets. 

 Sta'men, pi. Sta'mina, or Stamens 

 {stamen, a filament), a male sporo- 

 phyll in a flower, one of the elements 

 of an androecium consisting of anther 

 and filament ; ster'ile -*' , a body 

 belonging to the series of stamens, 

 but without pollen ; sta'minal, 

 statnina'iis, stamina' ris, ittamin'eal, 

 staminea'lis, relating to stamens, or 

 consisting of stamens ; sta'minal 

 Cormnn=ANDKOPHOKE ; /^ Leaves, 

 the stamens regarded as metamor- 

 phosed leaves ; Sta'minalpode (iroi5r, 

 troths, a foot), Goethart's name for 

 the organs in the androeciiun of 

 Malvaceae which produce the 

 stamens on their margins ; sta'- 

 minate, applied to flowers which 

 are wholly male ; stamin'eous, -neua 

 (Lat., consisting of threads), relat- 

 ing to stamens ; Staminid'ium, pi. 

 Staminid'ia = Antheridia ; stami- 

 nif'erous, -rus {fero, I bear), sta- 

 minig'erous {gero, I bear), stamen- 

 bearing ; Sta'minode, Stamina' dium, 



(1) a sterile or abortive stamen, or 

 its homologue, without an anther ; 



(2) =Antheridium (Gray's Manual, 

 ed. I, p. xxxvi) ; Sta'minody, the 



conversion of other floral organs into 

 stamens ; sta'minose, stamino'sus, 

 when the stamens form a marked 

 feature of the flower. 

 Stand (Germ. ), a pure association, as a 



beech wood. 

 Stan'dard, (1) the fifth or posterior 

 petal of a papilionaceous corolla ; 

 (2) a tree or bush with a clear stem ; 

 Stand'els, old expression- for the 

 standards in a coppice. 

 stans (Lat., standing), supporting 



itself in an erect position. 

 Star-rings, small central steles in the 



fossil Medulloseae. 

 Starch, a carbohydrate of the same per- 

 centage composition as cellulose ; an 

 amylose which occurs abundantly in 

 grains as a reserve material in plants ; 

 '-' Buil'der, a plastid which forms 

 the starch-grain ; '-' Cellnlosej the 

 fi'amework of starch-grains, remain- 

 ing after the soluble parts have been 

 removed ; <^ Oenera'tors = Leuco- 

 PLASTiDs ; -^ Grain, ~ Gran'ule, 

 a body of definite sliape, varying 

 according to the plant which pro- 

 duces it, having the appearance of 

 parallel layers around a hOum ; '-' 

 Lay'er, a form of Bundle Sheath, 

 consisting of a single layer of cells 

 filled with small grains of starch ; 

 /^ Produ'cer = Leucoplastid ; --' 

 Sheath, the innermost layer of the 

 primary cortex ; ~ Star, of Chara 

 stelligera, Bauer, stellate nodules or 

 internodes on the roots, filled with 

 starch ; ^ Sub'stance, A. Meyer's 

 term for the pure starch material, 

 apart from any associated or trans- 

 formed matters which may be also 

 present, 

 star'ry, stellate. 



starved, when a plant or part is less 

 developed than the normal condition, 

 by want of nourishment. 

 Stas'ad (o-rcio-is, a standing or pause, 

 ■4- ad), a plant of stagnant water 

 (Clements) ; Stas'imorphy {fiop<ph., a 

 shape), a deviation from the normal, 

 arising from arrest of development ; 

 Stafl'is, used to denote retardation 

 especially of longitudinal growth ; 



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