Series 



Sorosphere 



Se'ries, add, (3) applied to a group 

 of siater-plants from the same 

 parent, or same cross, in any one 

 season (Stout) ; (4) used by 

 Vavilov for the phenomena of 

 variation; cycles, one or more. 



serolog'ical {sero, I sow ; Aoyoj, dis- 

 course), concerning raising seed- 

 lings of Leguminosae and grasses 

 (Zade) [Note. — not to be confounded 

 with the medical usage of this 

 word.] 



Seslerie'tum, an association of Sesleria 

 Scop. 



Sex Int'ergrades = polygamous 

 (Yampolsky) ; ~ Intergrada'tion, 

 polygamy ; ~ lim'ited, inheritance 

 restricted; ~ linked, needful for 

 inheritance of certain factors. 



sex'tuple, six sets of chromosomes 

 involved (Blakeslee). 



Shift, segregation of one factor 

 causing variation (Engledow) ; 

 shift'ed, varied in form. 



Shoot, add, (3) long ~ = leader; 

 short ~ = SPUR (3). 



Short-shoot, (1) spur; dwarfed, fer- 

 tile branch ; (2) in conifers, special 

 leaf -spurs (Jeffrey) ; -^ styled, 

 flowers with styles shorter than 

 the anthers. 



Sib'ljak, bush-land ; a transition from 

 grass-steppe to forest, of light and 

 warmth-loving shrubs (Adamovic). 



Sib'ship (sib, old term for related), 

 relationship. 



Si'derophiles {ai.hripirrjs, a magnet; 

 <f)i.X4co, I love), iron-loving plants ; 

 Si'derophobes {(f)6^os, fear), iron- 

 hating plants ; Si'deroplasts [vXaaTos, 

 formed), plants taking their shape, 

 from the iron in the soil (Nau- 

 mann). 



sier'ran (Sierra, Span.), applied to 

 the vegetation of the Pacific coast 

 and Rocky Mountains. 



sikyot'ic {oiKva, a cupping-glass), 

 parasitic, as by fusion of plasma in 

 fungi, as Chaetocladium Fres. on 

 Mucor Mich. (Burgeff). 



Si'lage, corn or hay preserved in a 

 Si'lo, a tall, airtight compartment, 

 for fermentation of its contents. 



silie'icole, c/. silicolous; Silici'on, 

 sand-flinty soils (Moss). 



Silks, stigmas of maize, in United 

 States of America. 



Simp'lices, homosporous ferns, whose 

 sporangia are produced simultane- 

 ously, especially those occurring 

 in primary rocks, as the Maratti- 

 aceae (Bower). 



Sing'ular-becom'ing, Driesh ; ex- 

 plained by Worsclell as mechanical 

 causality. 



sinist'ral, add, (2) applied to respective 

 daughter-cells resulting from spiral 

 cleavage (Treadwell). 



Sipho'nea {ai^cov, a tube), a stage in 

 Yolvox when the blastopore is 

 drawn out and the archenteron 

 has become tubular (Janet). 



skin'ny, W. Wilson's term for 



SCARIOSE. 



smila'ceous, like Sviilax Tourn. or 

 Ruscus Tomn. (Drude). 



snipt, old term for incised. 



Sociabil'ity, the disposition of indivi- 

 duals in the interior of an associa- 

 tion ; so'cial exclu'sive, with no other 

 species ; ^ inclu'sive, admitting 

 other species ; Sociorogy, Plant : 

 economic botany. 



Sol, abbreviated from Solu'tion; 

 stiffens into Gel. 



solana'ceous, akin to Solanum 

 Tourn. 



Somat'ogen, somatogenic variation 

 (Poulton). 



sonor'an, the vegetation of Sonora in 

 the Gulf of California, a very dry 

 region. 



Sora'lium, a group of soredia sur- 

 rounded by a definite margin 

 (A. L. Smith). 



Sor'i, add, (4) antheridia so arranged 

 on male fronds of Rhodymenia 

 palmata Grev. 



So'roma {adopcvfxa, a heap), pi. Soro'- 

 mata, the sporangial apparatus of 

 the vascular plant, with its recep- 

 tacle or stalk (Benson). 



So'rosphere (a^atpa, a ball), a hollow 

 sphere of cells, each cell becoming 

 a spore, as in Sorosphaera Schroet. 

 (Minchin). 



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