scimitar-shaped 



scobicular 



scimitar-sliaped, aciuacifoim. 



Sci'on, a j'oung shoot, a twig used for 

 grafting. 



scioph'ilousto-Kja, shade; ^lAeo?, I love), 

 shade-loving; Sci'ophyll {<pvWov, a 

 leaf), the leaf of a shade plant ; 

 Soiophy'ta {(pvThv, a plant), plants 

 of the shade ; Sciophyti'a, shade 

 plant- formations (Clements). 



Scirpe'tum, Warming's term for an 

 association of Scirpus plants. 



scis'sile {scis'silis, easily split), separ- 

 ating. 



Scis'sion {scissio, a cleaving) Lay'er 

 = Absciss - layer ; scissip'arous 

 {pario, I bring forth), used for 

 FissiPAROUS, as bacteria. 



scitamin'eous, referring to the Scita- 

 raineae. 



sci'uroid, sciuroi'des, sciuroi'deus 

 {(TKiovpos, a squirrel ; eldos, resem- 

 lolance), curved and bushy, like a 

 squirrel's tail. 



Scleran'thiam {a-KK-npos, hard ; &vdos, 

 a flower), an achene enclosed in an 

 indurated portion of the calyx- 

 tube, as in Mirabilis ; Sclerench'- 

 yma (eyxuiito, an infusion), (1) 

 formerly applied to stone-cells, 

 SciEREiDS ; (2) afterwards proposed 

 for bast or liber cells, which are 

 immensely thickened, with their 

 protoplasm usually lost ; ■^ Cells, all 

 thick- walled cells which retain 

 their protoplasm (Tschirch); ^adj. 

 sclerenchy'matous ; as -^ Tis'sue, 

 composed of thick-walled cells; 

 Scle'reid, a sclerotic or stone-cell, 

 a strongly thickened or lignitied 

 cell; it is sometimes spelled Scle'- 

 rid; scle'rifled, hardened; scle'rised, 

 sclerosed ; Scle'rites, pi. , large, thick - 

 walled ideoblasts with the walls of 

 their numerous arms thickly set 

 with small crystals (Seward) ; Scle- 

 riza'tion, the process of becoming 

 hardened ; Scle'roblast {$\a(TT6s, a 

 bud), a stone-cell, or sclereid ; Scle- 

 rocayly {Kav\h5, stem), the pos- 

 session of dry hard stems, as in 

 Ephedra (Schimpet) ; Sclerocypera'- 

 eeae, a division of that family 

 characterized by sclerotic elements 



in place of assimilatory mechanism 

 (Plowman) ; Scle'rogen {yevos, off- 

 spring), the hard ligniRed deposits 

 in such cells as those which compose 

 the shell of the walnut, or grit cells 

 of the pear ; Sclerogen'ia, Berkeley's 

 term for induration of parts amount- 

 ing to a disease ; Sclerogonid'ia, pi. 

 {-{• Gonidium), loose, yellowish or 

 colourless gonidia, of uncertain 

 function ; scle'roid, scleroi'dus {^llos, 

 resemblance), having a hard texture ; 

 Scleromyce'tes, pi. [fivK-ns, a mush- 

 room ) , an obsolete name for the Sphae- 

 riaceae; sclerophyll'ous, sclerophyV- 

 lus {(pvKXov, a leaf), having hard 

 and stiff leaves ; Sclerophyriy, the 

 condition itself; Scle'rophytes, pi. 

 [ipvThv, a plant), a shrub or bush 

 having sclerophyllous leaves, usually 

 evergreen and resistant to sum- 

 mer-drought; sclerop'odous (iroGs, 

 7ro55s, a foot), when persistent pe- 

 duncles become hard and horny; 

 sclero'sed, hardened, lignified ; 

 Sclero'sis, the hardening of a 

 tissue or cell-wall by lignification 

 of a membrane or intercellular 

 deposits; Sclerotes'ta (+ Testa), 

 the hard bony seed-coat, as the 

 middle coat of Cycas ; Sclerote', a 

 proposed emendation of Sclero- 

 TiUM ; sclero'tic, hardened, stony 

 in texture; <- Cells, grit-cells or 

 sclereids; '- Nests, characteristic 

 groups of dark-coloured tissue of 

 uncertain origin seen in sections of 

 Lyyiiwdendron ; -^ Parench'yma, 

 grit-cells or stone-cells in pears, etc. ; 

 Sclero'tiet, A. S. Wilson's name for 

 a small Sclerotium ; small concre- 

 tions of lime have been also so 

 termed, in error ; Sclerotin'iose, a 

 disease of lettuce caused by Sclero- 

 tinia Lihertiaiia ; sclero'tioid, scle- 

 ro'toid {ilUs, resemblance), like a 

 sclerotium ; Stlero'tium, pi. Sclero'- 

 tia, (1) a compact mass of hyphae in 

 a dormant state, occurring in several 

 groups of Fungi; (2) also applied 

 by some to the resting stage of the 

 Plasmodium of the Myxogastres. 

 scobic'ular {scohis, sawdust) = scobi- 



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