Sprout 



Btabilitj 



= Chain-gemma ; -^ Oennina'tion, 

 the germination of a spore in which 

 a small process, or germ-cell, pro- 

 trudes from the surface, becomes 

 cylindric, and finally abjointa as a 

 Sprout-cell. 



■pront^ing, the fonn of an excrescence 

 in a cell, becoming cut otf by a 

 transverse wall ; --' Fun'gns, growth- 

 form in which the thallus consists of 

 sprout-cell or chain. 



ipomes'oent, spumes' cens {spumesco, I 

 become foamy), froth-like in appear- 

 ance; spa'mose, spuTno'sua, frothy. 



Spar, (1) a hollow and slender exten- 

 sion of some part of the flower, 

 usually nectariferous, as the calyx of 

 Larkspur or the corolla of the Violet; 

 (2) sometimes a solid spur-like pro- 

 cess ; (3) a contracted lateral bearing 

 Rhoot, sometimes, as in forests, with 

 a few foliage leaves in a tuft, and 

 a terminal bud ; (4) a buttress-like 

 projection of a tree-trunk ; (5) see 

 Ergot ; fo'liar <-' , a short branch, 

 bearing leaves only ; fruit '~ , a 

 short branch which bears blossom 

 buds, as in the Peach ; spurred, 

 calcarate, producing a spur. 



spu'rious, spur'iu3 (Lat., illegitimate), 

 counterfeit, false ; "^ Branch = 

 PsEUDORAMULUs ; '-' Dlssep'iment, 

 a partition in fruit but not from the 

 primary infolding of the margins of 

 a carpel or upward growth of the 

 torus ; '~ Fruit = Pseudocarp ; '^ 

 Tis'sue, cell-aggregation of felted 

 hyphae in Agarics, or of coenocytes 

 in certain Algae ; -^ Whorl, organs 

 developed at different times, which, 

 by some displacement, appear at 

 the same level. 



Squa'ma (Lat. , a scale), a scale of any 

 sort, usually the hoinologue of a 

 leaf; '~ fructif'era, a seminiferous 

 scale ; squama'ceous ( -j- aceous), 

 scaly ; squa'mate, squama'tiLS, fur- 

 nished with scales ; Squama'tio, the 

 unnatural formation of rosettes of 

 scale-like leaves as in the Rose- 

 Willow; Squamel'la, (1) diminutive 

 of Squama, a scale of the second 

 order, or reduced in size, as in the 



disk of Composites ; pi. Squamellao 



(2) = LODICULES. 



squamellif'erouB, -us {fero, I bear), 

 scale-bearing ; squameriiform {forma, 

 shape), shaped like a scale ; Squa- 

 mel lula, (1) a sub division of the 

 pappus-limb in Compositae ; (2) a 

 scale-like appendage within the tube 

 of certain \ corollas ; squamif' erous, 

 •rus {fero, I bear), bearing scales ; 

 squamiflo'rous {flos, floris, a flower), 

 having a perianth of scale-like bracts, 

 but not disposed round an axis as in 

 Coniferae ; squa'mifonn, squami- 

 form' is {forma, shape), scale-like; 

 squamig'erous {gero, I bear), scale- 

 bearing ; Squamo'dy (65bi, a way), 

 the change of foliar organs into 

 scale-leaves (Worsdell) ; squa'moid 

 («I5or, resemblance), squamiform 

 (Crozier) ; squa'mose, squamo'sus^ 

 iqua'mous, scaly or scale-like ; '*' 

 Bulb = Scaly Bulb (Crozier) ; 

 Squamo'sis, a disease of the orange- 

 tree, the bark scaling off, believed 

 to be a form of Gummosis (Butler) ; 

 squa'mulate=sQUAMUL08E(Crozier); 

 Sqaa'mule, Squa'mula, {T) thehypo- 

 gynous scale of grasses, the lodicule ; 

 (2) Squa'mulae intervagina'les, the 

 axillary scales of Halophila ; squa'- 

 muliform, squamuliform'is {forma,, 

 .shape), resembling a small scale ; 

 squa'mulose, sqaumulo'sus, beset 

 with small scales. 



squar'rose, squarro'sns, squar'rous 

 (Lat, rough, scurfy), rough or 

 scurfy with spreading and out- 

 standing processes, as the tips of 

 bracts ; squarro'so-denta'tusj having 

 teeth which do not lie in the plane 

 of the leaf, but at an angle; '- 

 squar'rulose, squarrtdo'sus, diminu- 

 tive of squarrose. 



Sta'ble {stabilis, able to stand), fixed, 

 not changeable ; --' Forma'tion, 

 opposed to migratory formations, 

 occurring on palaeogeic or past 

 geological processes (Crampton) ; 

 StabUiza'tion, the tendency of suc- 

 cession in which each stage becomes 

 /nore stable (Clements) ; stabilized, 

 settled; Stabil'ity, (1) the condition 



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