Spore 



Sporogamia 



bion; in Cryptogams the analogue 

 of seed in Phanerogams, understood 

 by Saccardo as a BASiDiosi'ORE ; 

 finther particularized by C. Mac- 

 Millan into Pri'mo-, Secun'do, Ter'- 

 tio-, Quar'to-, and Quin'to-spores, 

 according to their assumed develop- 

 ment ; cf. Caiu'Ospore, Kinospore, 

 Paulospore, etc. ; '-' -bed, applied 

 to a layer of cells parallel to the 

 surface in Uredineous Fungi (Grove) ; 

 r^ Burbils, abortive apothecia in 

 certain Lichens ; '-' Case, = Spor- 

 angium ; '-' Cell, a spore, or a cell 

 which gives rise to a spore (Crozier) ; 

 '*' Forms, the divisions of a genus 

 according to the characters of the 

 spores, as, for example, in PiKxinia 

 (Arthur) ; '- Group, = Sporidesm ; 

 "^ Hy^brid, a hybrid arising in the 

 gametophytic stage ; <-- Initials, 

 small processes borne by the fertile 

 hyphae of Graphiola, which pro- 

 duce spores by one or more bi- 

 partitions of theii- contents (E. 

 Fischer) ; -^ Lay'er,a layer of mother- 

 cells of the spores of Fhascum ; <« 

 -sac = Moss-capsule (Berkeley) ; '^ 

 Sport, a variation arising from a 

 sexual reproductive act ; cf. <^ Hy'- 

 brid; Spor'eling, a young plant 

 from a germinated spore ; Spor'e- 

 plasm {ir\dafj.a, moulded), the pro- 

 toplasm in a sporangium destined 

 to produce spores ; Spore'tia, pi., 

 generative cliromidia (Goldschraidt) ; 

 Spor'id, see Sporidium ; Spor'idesm 

 {5e<rfihs, a bond), a pluricellular 

 body, becoming free like a spore, in 

 which each cell is an independent 

 spore with power of separate ger- 

 mination ; sporid'ens, bearing spores ; 

 acotyledonous (Henslow) ; sporidif' - 

 ems ( -f Sporidium, fero, I bear), 

 bearing sporidia ; sporidiformls 

 (forma, shape), shaped like a spor- 

 idium ; sporidig'ems {gero, I bear), 

 sporidifer'us ; Sporid'iole, Sporidi'- 

 olwrriy pi. Sporid'iola, formerly used 

 for spores in the lower Cryptogams ; 

 Sporid'ium, (1) a synonym or di- 

 minutive of Spoke, or a granule 

 which resembles a spore (Fries) ; (2) I 



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a spore abjointed from a promy- 

 celium ; (3) by Saccardo the term 

 is used as equivalent to Ascospore ; 

 it should be restricted to spores 

 generated in asci, i. e. promycelial 

 spores (Plowright) ; Sporidoch'ia, 

 Sporidoch'ium (Soxeiov, a holder), 

 " the receptacle or even the stipe of 

 certain Fuugals " (Lindley) ; spor- 

 if' erous (/«ro, I bear), spore-bearing; 

 SporL&ca'tion, the process of jro- 

 ducing spores (Ganong) ; spor'o- 

 antherid'ic, Brebner's term for that 

 condition of Haplospora when spores 

 and antheridia are borne by distinct 

 individuals ; ^ -hermaph'rodite, 

 when some are hermaphrodite and 

 others bear asexual ly produced 

 spores ; -^ -oogenous, bearing spores 

 in one individual and oogonia in 

 another ; Spor'oblast (jSAoo-Ti*?, a 

 bud), (1) Koerber's word for Meei- 

 spore ; (2) applied to secondary 

 cysts in Gymnodinium ; Sporo'carp, 

 Uporocar'pium {Kapiths, fruit), (1) 

 a many-celled body resulting from 

 a sexual act as from an archicarp, 

 serving for the formation of spores ; 

 (2) the indusium or body enclosing 

 the sporangia in Hydropterideae j 

 Spor'ocide {cido, stem of caedo, I 

 cut or kill), a germicide, any agent 

 which destroys the vitality of 8[)ores 

 or germs; Sporocladlnm {KXdSos, a 

 branch), a branch on which the 

 reproductive bodies of some Algae 

 are found ; Sporoconid'ium ( + Con- 

 idium), used by A. Braun for Acro- 

 spore; Spor'ocyst {kvctis, a bag), 

 a unicellular structure, producing 

 asexual spores (Davis) ; Sporocys'ta, 

 the sporangium of an Alga ; Spor'- 

 ocjrte (kvtos, a hollow), Goebel's 

 term for the mother-cell of a spore ; 

 Sporocy'tium, a simple sporangium 

 containing spores (A. Braun); 

 Spor'oderm, Sporoderm'is (Btpfuiy a 

 skin), the integument of a spore ; 

 Sporodochlam, pi. Sporodoch'ia 

 (Soxcioi', a holder), the sporiferous 

 apparatus in Fungi belonging to 

 Tuberculariae, cf. Sporidochia ; 

 Sporogamia {ydfiosy marriage), a 



