Sap 



sarmentitiai 



to coloration of the sap, and not to 

 plastids (Wheeldale); r^ -part'icles, 

 vesicular bodies present in cell-sap 

 (Price) ; -^ Per'iderm, distinguished 

 from ordinary periderm by its cell- 

 wall and contents being in a living 

 condition, serving as absorption 

 tissue (Wiesner) ; r^ Pres'sure, the 

 force exerted on passing upwards 

 through the tissues ; '-' Rot, Poly- 

 porus adustus attacking the sap- 

 wood of Liquidamhar ; f^ Ve'sicle, 

 a vacuole surrounded by a thin skin 

 of protoplasm ; r^ Ves'sel, a duct 

 or continuous vessel ; -- Wart'ing, 

 ruptures and corky" outgrowths in 

 the bark of stems and branches when 

 grown under glass ; -^ Wood, the 

 new wood in an exogenous tree, so 

 long as it is pervious to the flow of 

 water, the alburnum ; the sap of oak 

 is Grew's term for the alburnum of 

 that tree ; Sap'a = Sap ; sap'less, 

 dry, destitute of sap ; Sap'ling, a 

 young tree. 



B&^'idiy sap' idus (Lat., savoury), having 

 a pleasant taste. 



sapona'ceous {sapo, soap, -f- aceous), 

 soapy, slippery to the touch ; sapo- 

 na'rius (N. Lat.), having scouring 

 qualities like soap ; Sap'onin, a 

 soap-like principle from Saponaria 

 ojjicinaUs, Linn., and other plants. 



Sap 'or (Lat., flavour), the taste which 

 a plant otters. 



sapota'ceous, rekting to or resem- 

 bling Sapotaceae. 



Sapri'um (o-airp^s, rotten), a sapro- 

 phytic plant formation (Clements) ; 

 Sapro'bia {Bios, life), a general term 

 for organisms growii)g in polluted 

 water ; saprogen'ic, saprog'enous 

 {y4vos, off'spring), growing on de- 

 caying substances. 



saprolegnia'ceoas, saproleg'nious, al- 

 lied to or resembling Saprolegnia. 



Sapromyioph'ilae {aairphs, rotten ; fivla, 

 a fly; <pi\ca3, I love), plants which 

 are fertilized by carrion- or dung-flies; 

 the flowers are putrid-smelling ; adj. 

 ■apromyioph'ilous ; Sap'rophile, a 

 plant growing on humus ; sapro- 

 ph'ilous {(pi\fu, I love), humus- 



loving ; Sap'rophyte {<pvrhv, a plant), 

 a plant which lives upon dead 

 organic matter ; ad j . saprophy'tal, 

 saprophyt'io ; Sap'ropbytism, the 

 state of subsisting on humus or 

 similar material ; — symbio'tic -^ , a 

 jthanerogam which subsists by means 

 of a mycorrhiza, or felting of hyphal 

 tissue on the roots ; Saproplank'ton 

 (-f Plankton), foul- water plankton, 

 such Flagellates as Euglena, etc. 

 Sarcob'asis {a-dp^, aapKhs, flesh ; fidais, 

 base), a carceiule, used for gyno- 

 basis when very fleshy; Sarc'ocarp 

 Sarcocar'pium {Kapirhs, fruit), (1) 

 the succulent and fleshy part of a 

 drupe ; (2) a general name for a 

 baccate fruit ; Sar'cocaul («auAbs, a 

 stem), a fleshy stemmed plant, as 

 the (Dacti and many Euphorbias 

 (J. Smith). 

 Sar'code (<rapKw5rjs, flesh-like), Du- 

 jardin's term for protoplasm ; Sar'- 

 cody, the acquirement of a fleshy 

 consistency (Worsdell). 

 Sar'coderm, Sarcoder'-jna, Sarcoder'mis 

 {cdpl, flesh ; Bepfia, skin), a fleshy 

 layer in seed-coats between the 

 exopleura and the endopleura ; sar- 

 coi'des {eUos, resemblance), having 

 the appearance of flesh. 

 Sarcoirin, a glucoside from sarcocolla 

 gum, itself an exudation from Astra- 

 galus f asciculifolia, Borzi. 

 Sar'coma %, a fleshy disk. 

 Sar'cospores, -ae{-\- Spore), Clements's 

 name for plants having fleshy fruits ; 

 Sarcotes'ta (+ Testa), the fleshy 

 outer seed coat, as of Cycas (F. W. 

 Oliver) ; adv. sarcotes'tal. 

 Sar'ment, Sarmen'twm (Lat., twigs, 

 brush-wood), a long slender runner, 

 or stolon, as in the strawberry ; 

 sarmenta'ceous, -cetus (-f aceous), 

 garmentif erous, -rus {fero, I bear), 

 sarmentose ; sar'mentary, applied 

 by Massart to the buds of climbing 

 plants which develop into long 

 slender branches and tendrils ; Sar- 

 mentid'ium J, a group of cymes 

 or spikes arranged centrifugally as 

 those in the cynie itself (Lindley); 

 sarmentit'ius, belonging to twigs 



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