spurious 



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spu'rious, spur'ius (Lat., illegitimate), 

 counterfeit, false ; ~ Branch, = 

 PSEUDORAMULUS ; <~ Dissepiment, a 

 partition in fruit but not from the 

 primary infolding of the margins of 

 a carpel or upward growth of the 

 torus ; ~ Fruit = PSEUDOCARP ; 

 ~Tis'sue, cell-aggregation of felted 

 hyphae in Agarics, or of coenocytes 

 in certain Algae ; ~ Whorl, organs 

 developed at different times, which, 

 by some displacement, appear at 

 the same level. 



Squa'ma (Lat., a scale), a scale of any 

 sort, usually the homologue of a 

 leaf ; ** fructif era, a seminiferous 

 scale; squama'ceous (+ aceous), 

 scaly ; squa'mate, squama'tus, 

 furnished with scales ; Squama'tio, 

 the unnatural formation of rosettes 

 of scale-like leaves as in the Rose- 

 Willow ; Squamel'la, diminutive of 

 SQUAMA, a scale of the second 

 order, or reduced in size, as in the 

 disk of Composites ; squainellif"- 

 erous, -us (fero, I bear), scale- 

 bearing ; squamel'liform (forma- 

 shape), shaped like a scale ; 

 Squamellula, (1) a sub-division of 

 the pappus-limb in Compositae; 

 (2) a scale-like appendage within 

 the tube of certain corollas ; 

 squamlf erous, -rus (fero, I bear), 

 bearing scales ; squamiflo'rus (flos, 

 floriSy a flower), having a perianth 

 of scale-like bracts, but not disposed 

 round an axis as in Coniferae ; 

 squa'iniform, squamiform'is (forma, 

 shape), scale-like; squamig'erous 

 (gero, I bear), scale - bearing ; 

 squa'moid (eUos, resemblance), 

 squamiform (Crozier) ; squa'mose, 

 squamo'sus, squa'mous, scaly or 

 scale-like; ~ Bulb = SCALY BULB 

 (Crozier) ; squa'mulate = SQUAMU- 

 LOSE (Crozier) ; Squa'mule, Squamf- 

 tUa, the hypogynous scale of 

 grasses, the lodicule ; squa'muli- 

 form, squamuliform'is (forma, 

 shape), resembling a small scale ; 

 squa'mulose, squamulo'sus, beset 

 with small scales. 



Bquar'rose, squarro'sus, squar'rous 



(Lat., rough, scurfy), rough or 

 scurfy with spreading and out- 

 standing processes, as the tips of 

 bracts; squarro'so-denta'tus, having 

 teeth which do not lie in the plane 

 of the leaf, but at an angle ; ~ 

 squar'rulose, squamdo'sus, diminu- 

 tive of squarrose. 



stag-head'ed, a forester's term for a 

 tree which is bare of leaves at the 

 top. 



Stalk, any lengthened support of 

 an organ, as the seta of a Moss ; 

 stalked, borne on a stalk ; - Gland, 

 a glandular hair ; Stalk'let, 

 a secondary petiole, the stalk of 

 leaflets. 



Sta'men, pi. Sta'mina, or Sta'mens 

 (OTTIIJMV, a filament), a male sporo- 

 phyll in a flower, one of the 

 elements of an androecium con- 

 sisting of anther and filament ; 

 ster'ile ~ a body belonging to the 

 series of stamens, but without 

 pollen ; stam'inal, stamina' Us, 

 stamina' 'ris, stamin'eal, staminea'lis, 

 relating to stamens, or consisting 

 of stamens; stam'inal Col'uinn = 

 ANDROPHORE ; ~ Leaves, the 

 stamens regarded as metamor- 

 phosed leaves ; Stam'inalpode (irovs, 

 irodos, a foot), Goethart's name for 

 the organs in the androecium of 

 Malvaceae which produce the 

 stamens on their margins ; stam'- 

 inate, applied to flowers which are 

 wholly male; stamin'eous, -neus 

 (Lat., consisting of threads), 

 relating to stamens ; Staminid'ium, 

 pi. Staminid'ia = ANTHERIDIA ; 

 staminife'rous, -rus (fero, I bear), 

 staminig'eroufl (gero, I bear), 

 stamen - bearing; Sta'minode, 

 Slamino'dium, (1) a sterile or 

 abortive stamen, or its homologue, 

 without an anther; (2) = 

 ANTHERIDIUM (Gray's Manual, ed. 

 i., p. xxxvi) ; Stam'inody, the con- 

 version of other floral organs into 

 stamens ; stam'inose, stamino'sus, 

 when the stamens form a marked 

 feature of the flower. 



Stan'dard, (1) the fifth or posterior 



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