fitipulose 



Straw 



organ of one cell, in one or more 

 rows subtending the branchlets in 

 Chara; stip'ulose, stipulo'sus, hav- 

 ing very large stipules. 



stirpa'lis J (stirps, a trunk, a plant), 

 growing upon a stem ; Stirps, pi. 

 Stir'pes, (1) a race or permanent 

 variety, as the Red Cabbage ; (2) 

 formerly equivalent to species. 



Stock, (1) a synonym of RACE; (2) 

 the stem which receives the scion 

 in grafting; (3) a caudex or 

 rhizome which emits roots. 



Stole, Stolon, Stol'o (Lat., a shoot), 

 a sucker, runner, or any basal 

 branch which is disposed to root ; 

 stoloniferous -rus (fero, I bear), 

 sending out or propagating itself 

 by stolons ; stolon'iform (forma, 

 shape) Stem, " a slender creep- 

 ing stem with minute leaves" 

 (Dixon and Jameson). 



Btom'a, pi. Stom'ata (o-ro^ta, a mouth) 

 or Sto'mate, (1) a breathing pore 

 or aperture in the epidermis, sur- 

 rounded by two guard-cells, leading 

 into an intercellular space com- 

 municating with internal tissue ; 

 according to Tschirch of four types ; 

 angiosper'mal ~, archego'nial, *- 

 eiso'dial~, and opisthe'lial ~; (2) 

 the ostiole of certain Fungi, cf. 

 EPIPHRAGMA ; sto'matal, stomat'ic, 

 pertaining to stomata ; stomat'ic 

 Cells = GUARD-CELLS; stomatifer- 

 ous, -rus (fero, I bear), bearing 

 stomata ; Stomat'ium = STOMA ; 

 stom'atose, in Mosses, possessing 

 stomata ; Stom'ium, an opening 

 on the side of Fern-sporangia, 

 between the lip -cells, through 

 which dehiscence takes place. 



Stone, the hard endocarp of a drupe ; 

 ~ Cells, the individual cells which 

 have become hardened by second- 

 ary deposit, the components of 

 sclerogen ; ~ Fruit, a drupe such 

 as a plum or peach. 



Stool, (1) a plant from which offsets 

 or layers are taken; (2) when 

 several stems rise from the same 

 root, as in wheat. 



Stop'per, a word applied by Archer 



to the callus-plates in Algae ; ** 

 of Pollen, hyaline protoplasmic 

 deposits in pollen-tubes (Degaguy). 



Stop'ples, the projections or lids in pol- 

 len-grains which fall away to admit 

 of the passage of the pollen- tube. 



strag'gling, divaricate. 



Stor'ax, = STYRAX. 



Stra'gulum J (Lat., a covering), the 

 paleae of grasses. 



straight, in a right line, not curved ; 

 - ribbed, ~ veined, when the ribs 

 run in a straight line, as in the 

 leaves of many Monocotyledons. 



Strain, (1) in atavism, the influence 

 of some ancestor ; (2) a slight 

 variety of race. 



Stra'men (Lat.), straw; straminellus 

 (N. Lat.), some what straw-coloured ; 

 stramin'eous, -neus, straw-like or 

 straw-coloured. 



Strand, a bundle of vascular tissue, 

 resembling a cord ; ~ Mycelium = 

 mycelial strand. 



Strand-plants, used by C. Macmillan 

 for shore plants. 



stran'gulated (strangulatus, choked), 

 contracted and expanded in an 

 irregular manner. 



Strap, the ligule of a ray floret in 

 Compositae (Crozier) ; ~* shaped, 

 ligulate or lorate. 



Stra'ta, pi. (stratum, a layer), layers 

 of tissue ; Stratification (facio, I 

 make), the successive deposition of 

 layers on the cell-wall, and the 

 arrangement of the said layers ; 

 strat'ifled, disposed in layers ; ^ 

 Thallus, a Lichen thallus in which 

 the gonidial layer or layers are 

 evident ; stra'tose, in distinct 

 layers (Crozier) ; Stra'tum, a layer 

 of tissue ; <~ cellulo'sum, the bark 

 layer next within the epidermis; 

 ~ corticale, any bast layer; ^ 

 gonidiale, <~ gon'imon, the algal 

 layer in Lichens; ~ lig'neum, a 

 layer of wood ; <~ medulla're, the 

 medulla or pith ; ~ sporidiif erum, 

 the flesh of Agarics; ~ sporoph'- 

 orum, the hymenium of Fungi. 



Straw, the jointed hollow culm of 

 grasses. 



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