Sporogone 



spurred 



Dudresnaya ; the ooblastema-fila- 

 ments of Schmitz ; +> Lay'er = 

 HYMENIUM ; ^Nu'cleus, the nucleus 

 resulting from the fusion of the 

 nuclei of the spermatium and the 

 carpogonium of Florideae (Olt- 

 mann); Spor'ogone, Sporogo'nium 

 (70^, progeny), the sporocarp in 

 Muscineae, the whole product of 

 a sexual act remaining attached 

 to the oophyte or plant bearing 

 the sexual organs ; spor'oid (elSoj, 

 resemblance), spore-like (Crozier) ; 

 Sporomyce'tes (/urf/ojs, a mush- 

 room), Marchand's term for a 

 group to comprise Myco-, Siphon-, 

 Theca-, and Basidio-mycetes ; 

 Spor'ophore, Sporoph'orum (<t>opew, 

 I carry), (1) the PLACENTA; (2) a 

 branch or portion of a thallus which 

 bears one or more spores; (3) in 

 Ferns and Mosses, the SPORO- 

 PHYTE ; Sporophy'as, A. Braun's 

 term, the same as Sporophyd'ium 

 (dimin. of 0fds, a shoot), T. F. 

 Allen's term for the nucule of 

 Characeae while still unfertil- 

 ized ; Spor'ophyll, Sporophyl'lum 

 ((jHjXXov, a leaf), (1) a leaf which 

 bears spores ; (2) a leaf-like division 

 of the thallus of an Alga bearing 

 fruit, as in Carpodonium, adj. 

 sporophyl'lary ; ^ Leaves, stamens 

 and pistils ; Spor'ophyte (<j>vrov, a 

 plant), in Ferns and Mosses, the 

 plant in the life-cycle of alternation 

 which produces spores; Sporosteg'- 

 ium (ffreyos, a covering), the cellular 

 envelope of the nucule in Chara 

 (Allen) ; Sporota'mium (rafji.e'iov, a 

 storehouse), the cellular layer im- 

 mediately beneath the disk of the 

 shield of a Lichen ; Sporothala'mia 

 (0d\a/ios, a bed-chamber), com- 

 pound or branched sporophores, as 

 of fruticose Lichens or Agarics (A. 

 Braun) ; Spor'ozoid ({MOV, a living 

 creature, elSos, resemblance), a 

 ZOOSPORE. 



Sport, variation starting from a bud 

 or seed. 



Spor'ula, Spor'ule (dim. of SPORA), 

 (1) a small spore ; (2) a spore pro- 



duced in a perithecium, but not in 

 an ascus (Ellis and Everhart), 

 formerly used vaguely for spore ; 

 sporuliferous, -rus (fero, I bear) ; 

 sporulig'erus (gero, I bear), bearing 

 sporules ; sporulig'enous (76/05, 

 offspring), producing sporules ; 

 Sporula'tion, the production of 

 spores (Crozier). 



spot'ted, when colour is disposed in 

 spots on a ground of a different 

 colour. 



spread'ing 1 , having a gradually out- 

 ward direction, as petals from the 

 ovary. 



Spring-wood, the wood produced 

 early in the year, characterized by 

 larger ducts and cells than the later 

 growths. 



Sprout, a shoot or germinated seed ; 

 <~ Cell, one produced by sprouting, 

 or vegetative growth ; <~ Chain, a 

 chain of cells so produced ; <~ 

 Gem'ma, = CHAIN - GEMMA ; ~ 

 Gerrnina'tion, the germination of 

 a spore in which a small process, 

 or germ -cell, protrudes from the 

 surface, becomes cylindric, and 

 finally abjoints as a SPROUT-CELL. 



sprout' ing, the form of an excrescence 

 in a cell, becoming cut off by a 

 transverse wall; ^ Fun'gus, growth- 

 form in which the thallus consists 

 of a sprout-cell or chain. 



spumes'cent, spumes'cens (spumeus, 

 foamy), froth-like in appearance ; 

 spu'mose, spumo'sus, frothy. 



Spur, (1) a hollow and slender ex- 

 tension of some part of the flower, 

 usually nectariferous, as the calyx 

 of Larkspur or the corolla of the 

 Violet ; (2) sometimes a solid spur- 

 like process ; (3) a contracted lat- 

 eral bearing shoot, sometimes, in 

 forestry, with a few foliage leaves 

 in a tuft, and a terminal bud ; (4) 

 a buttress-like projection of a tree- 

 trunk ; (5) see ERGOT ; foliar ~ , 

 a short branch, bearing leaves only; 

 fruit <~ , a short branch which bears 

 blossom buds, as in the Peach; 

 spurred, calcarate, producing a 

 spur. 



