Suture 



symphiantherous 



relating to a suture ; Su'ture, (1) 

 a junction or seam of union ; (2) 

 a line of opening or dehiscence ; 

 sutura'rius, possessing a suture. 



Swarm, a number of spores or 

 unicellular Algae of similar origin, 

 which remain in company without 

 being united ; cf. ADELPHOTAXY ; 

 <~ Cell, <~ Spore, a motile naked 

 protoplasmic body, a zoospore ; 

 Swarm' ers, zoospores ; swarming, 

 moving by means of cilia, applied 

 to zoospores. 



swim'ming 1 , used vaguely for aquatics 

 which float or have floating leaves ; 

 also restricted to those wholly 

 immersed and free ; ~ Apparatus, 

 in Azolla, three apical episporic 

 spongy masses of tissue, surround- 

 ing a central conical body with an 

 array of fine filaments (Campbell). 



Switch-plants, plants whose leaves 

 are wanting or reduced, with green 

 shoots acting in place of leaves. 



sword-shaped, ensiform. 



sychnocar'pous, -pus (ffvxvos, frequent, 

 Kapiros, fruit), able to produce fruit 

 many times without perishing, as 

 trees and herbaceous perennials. 



Sy / con = Sycon'ium, or Sy'conus (O-VKOV, 

 fruit of the fig-tree), a multiple 

 hollow fruit, as that of the fig. 



Syco'sis (o-ikwcris), a skin disease 

 ascribed to species of Microsporon. 



Sygolli'phytum, error (?) for Syncolli- 

 ph'ytum (<rtyKo\\os, glued together, 

 (}>VTOV, a plant), a plant in which 

 the perianth becomes combined 

 with the pericarp. 



Syl'va, or Sil'va (Lat., a wood), 

 applied to an account of the trees 

 of a district, or a discourse on trees ; 

 syl'van, relating to woods ; sylvat'- 

 icus or silvat'icus, growing amongst 

 trees ; sylves'tral, used by H. C. 

 Watson for plants which grow in 

 woods and shady places ; sylves'tris 

 or silves'tris, growing in woods ; 

 sylves'trine (Crozier), growing in 

 woods; Syl'vula, (1) a plantation; 

 (2) a small SYLVA. 



sym, a modification of syn (abv], with ; 

 Sym'bion (/3/os, life), an organ which 



lives in a state of SYMBIOSIS; 

 Sym'biont (Symbio'tes, of Tubeuf), 

 an individual existing in Symbio'- 

 sis, the living together of dissimilar 

 organisms, with benefit to one only, 

 or to both ; also styled commen- 

 salism, consortism, individualism, 

 mutualism, nutricism, proto trophy 

 and syntrophism ; antagonistic ~ 

 is a struggle between the two 

 organisms ; conjunc'tive ~ where the 

 symbionts are intimately blended 

 so as to form an apparently single 

 body ; contingent ~ , when one 

 plant lives in the interior of another 

 for shelter, not parasitism, in Germ. 

 Raumparasitismus ; disjunc'tive <~ 

 when the association is only tem- 

 porary (Frank) ; mutualis'tic ~ 

 when of reciprocal advantage ; sym- 

 bio'tic, relating to symbiosis ; ~ 

 Sap'rophytism, the condition of a 

 higher plant as a Phanerogam, 

 in symbiosis with a Fungus 

 (Macdougal). 



symmetran'thus (cru/A^erpfa, propor- 

 tion, avflos, a flower), when a 

 perianth is divisible into equal 

 parts by several planes of division ; 

 symmet'ric, symmetrical, (1) act- 

 inomorphic ; (2) similar in the 

 number of members in calyx, 

 corolla, and androecium; sym- 

 metricar'pus (ra/)7ros, fruit), a fruit 

 which is symmetric, as first de- 

 fined ; Sym'metry, Symmetries, cap- 

 able of division into similar halves. 



Sym'pathy (<rv[j.Trddeia, fellow-feeling), 

 (1) the faculty of ready union in 

 grafting ; (2) readiness to hybridize, 

 or receive foreign pollen ; adj. 

 sympathetic. 



Sym'pedae, pi. (abv, with, irtdr), a 

 fetter), applied by 0. Mueller to 

 those Diatoms having superficial 

 symmetry ; Sympet'alae, (irtraKov, 

 a flower leaf) = GAMOPETALAE ; 

 sympetal'icus, J the cohesion of the 

 stamens to the petals, as in Malva ; 

 sympetalous, -lus, with united 

 petals, gamopetalous. 



symphian'therous,-rws((ru/Li0i;w, Icause 

 to grow together, av077poy, flowery), 



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