spadiceoas 



Speotrophore 



spadic'eous, spadi'eeus {a-irdBi^, a palm- 

 branch), (1) as to colour, date- 

 brown ; (2) having the nature of, 

 or bearing a spadix ; Bpa'dicose, 

 resembling a spadix ; Spa'diz, a 

 spike with a fleshy axis, as in 

 Aroids. 



Span, usually about nine inches, be- 

 tween the extremities of the thumb 

 and little finger, Dodrans ; some- 

 times the small span of seven inches 

 is intended, the space between the 

 thumb and middle finger when 

 stretched out. 



Spanand'ry {airavhs, scarce ; av^p, 

 avdphs, a man), Marchal's term for 

 disappearance or extreme rarity of 

 males in normal bisexual lines of de- 

 scent ; spanan'thus {Avdos, a flower), 

 having few flowers. 



Spang'les, used by J. E. Smith for 

 Patellular. 



Sparga'nium-cor'tex (the genus Spar- 

 ganium, -\- Cortex), applied to 

 fossil stems with a vertical system 

 of fibrous strands which do not 

 anastomose, as Medullosa ; '- Tjrpe, 

 the cortex having short, radiating 

 bands of fibrous sclerenchyma run- 

 ning vertically without anastomoses 

 (Kidston). 



sparse, spar'sus (Lat., spread open), 

 scattered ; sparsiflo'ras {fios, Jioris, 

 a flower), with scattered flowers ; 

 sparsifo'lius [folium, a leaf), with 

 scattered leaves. 



Spar'sioplasts {nKaffrhs, moulded), 

 Elaioplasts, variable in position 

 and numbers (Mereschkowsky). 



Spartine'tum, a plant association made 

 up of Spartina (Ganong). 



spart'oid {airdpTos, esparto grass ; 

 cISos, resemblance), used by Fayod 

 for persistent mycelium which is 

 corticated, 



Spathe, Spath'a {(Tirddri, a spatula), a 

 large bract enclosing a flower 

 cluster, usually a spadix ; -^ Valves, 

 the "bract-like envelopes beneath 

 the flowers in certain Mono- 

 cotyledons, as Allium and Nar- 

 cissus ; spatha'ceous, -ceus{-\- aceus), 

 spathe-bearing, or of the nature 



of a spathe ; spathae'us J, having 

 a very large spathe (Lindley); 

 spa'thal, spa'thate, spathed, fur- 

 nished with a spathe ; Spathella, 

 an old name for the glumes of 

 grasses, sometimes also the paleae 

 were included ; Spathel'lula, a 

 palea of a grass ; Spathil'la J, a 

 secondary spathe, as in the inflor- 

 escence of Palms ; Bpa'those, spathe- 

 like; spath'ulate, spathula'tus, 

 spat'ulate, oblong, with the basal 

 (proximal) end attenuated like a 

 druggist's spatula. 



Spawn, mycelium. 



Specialized Form, Erikson's term for 

 Biological Race. 



Spe'cies (Lat., a shape, kind, or sort), 

 the particular kind, the unit in 

 classification, the aggregate of all 

 those individuals which have the 

 same constant and distinctive 

 characters ; they may be distin- 

 guished as biolog'io -^j morpho- 

 log'ic '-', or physiolog'ic •-, ac- 

 cording to the basis of discrimina- 

 tion ; element 'ary '- , a true unit, 

 not a collective species ; --' Hy'brid, 

 a hybrid between two species of the 

 same genus ; '-' Soror'es, Schrbter's 

 term for any two species of Uredineae • 

 which inhabit two distinct hosts, 

 but sliow.no morphological differ- 

 ,ence, as in Pu^cinia ; specific ~ , 

 relating to a species ; -^ Cen'tre, 

 the particular spot where the 

 species is supposed to have origin- 

 ated ; r^ Char'acter, the diagnosis 

 which separates one species from 

 another; — Name, the Latin ap- 

 pellative appropriated to a given 

 species, usually an adjective, but 

 sometimes a substantive used in 

 apposition. 



Spec imen (Lat., an example), a plant, 

 or portion of one, prepared for 

 botanic study. 



spec'tans (Lat., looking), "se in- 

 vicem spectantia folia," = opposite- 

 leaved. 



Spec'trophore [spectrum, an appear- 

 ance ; <popeu), I carry), apparatus 

 designed by Reinke to determine 



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