starters 



Succession 



Start'ers, cultures used to start 

 ripening or fermentation (Conn). 



Stase, fossil deposit when in stagnant 

 water (Clements) ; Sta'sis, an 

 arrest of growth ; at a standstill 

 (id.); Statench'yma, tissue formed 



of St ATO CYSTS. 



Stauroso'mes = Tetrads (3) (Chodat). 



Stearinolip'oids [areap, tallow ; Ai'ttos-, 

 grease), fatty compounds occurring 

 in plants (Czapek). 



stenocoe'nose (koivo?, common), 

 restricted in distribution (Gams) ; 

 Sten'ocysts {kvcjti,^, a cavity), 

 auxiliary cells in the leaves of 

 certain mosses (Morin) ; Sten'o- 

 morph {nop(f)T^, shape), a diminutive 

 form due to a cramped habitat 

 (Bartsch); stenother'mal [depMy 

 heat), applied to species restricted 

 to limited areas and temperatures 

 (Setchell) ; Stenother'my is the 

 condition; stenosynu'sic (+ Syn- 

 usia), groups of plants restricted 

 in distribution (Gams) ; cf. eury- 

 SYNUsic ; stenotrop'ic (rpoTro?, a 

 turn), with narrow limits of 

 adaptation to varied conditions 

 (Solms). 



Stigmatomyco'sis (+ Mycosis), fruits 

 apparently sound, but unsound 

 within, due to punctures by plant- 

 feeding bugs. 



Stipe'tum, an association of Stipa 

 tenacisshna Linn. 



Stokes's Law, the 



particles in a 



directly as the 



radius (Buller). 



sto'mal, Clements's expression for 



stomatal ; Stomat'ograph (ypa^w, 



I write), a self-recording instrument 



of the stomatal apertures of a leaf 



(Balls). 



Stone-cork, " of units with thick, 



sclerosed and pitted walls," in 



Conifers (Church). 



Strands, add, (3) very fine strands of 



linin in mitoses (Digby). 

 Stra'ta pL, add, (2) groups of Con- 

 sociES (Shelford) ; Strates, scat- 

 tered fossil deposits, opposed to 

 Stases (Clements). 



fall of spherical 



medium varies 



square of their 



Stream'way, the bed of a watercourse 



or dry channel. 

 Stri'ae, pi., add, (2) the spiral ridges 

 of the oospore in Charads (Groves). 

 Stricte'tum, an association of Carex 



stricta Good. 

 Strig ("origin obscure," Oxf. Diet.), 

 applied to petiole, peduncle or 

 pedicel, 

 -strote, " means of migration " 



(Clements). 

 sty'led, in dimorphic flowers, long or 



short. 

 Suaede'tum, an association of Suaeda 



Forsk. 

 Subassocia'tion (+ Association), a 

 minor association ; Sub-bacter'ia, 

 filter-passing bacteria or ultra- 

 microscopical germs (Cheshire) ; 

 Sub-cli'max, an edaphic minor 

 climax (Tansley and Chipp) ; sub- 

 co'pious, few ^ (Clements) ; sub- 

 dom'inant (+ dominant), applied 

 to a prominent character which 

 falls short of dominant. 

 Su'berin, add, recently defined as a 

 substance present in median 

 lamella of periderm cells, between 

 the middle lamella outside and 

 the cellulose layer within (Priest- 

 ley); suberogen'ic {yevos, off- 

 spring), forming suberin. 

 subgregar'ious, somewhat gregarious 

 (Clements); sublit'oral, near the 

 sea-shore; Subpalisa'de (+ Pali- 

 sade), tissue lying below the pali- 

 sade tissue: Sub'sere (-f Sere), 

 partial development of a climax 

 of vegetation (Clements) ; a secon- 

 dary sere (Tansley and Chipp) ; 

 Subsucces'sion, used for seres begin- 

 ning on rock surfaces or crevices and 

 ending in mat-growth (Clements) ; 

 subxeroph'ilous (+ xerophilous), 

 growing on fairly dry soil. 

 Succes'sion, add, defined by Clements 

 as abrupt' ~, contin'uous ~, im- 

 per'fect ~, intermit'tent ~, inter'- 

 polated ~ ; by Cowles as biot'ic '^, 

 phytogener'ic ~, re'gional ~, topo- 

 graphic ~ ; by Gams as catastro- 

 ph'ic ~» lo'cal ~, and sec'ular ~, 

 with yet finer distinctions. 



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