Sphyrium 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



strephotrichial 



Sphyr'ium, or Spnyr'ion (deriv. ?), a 

 plant succession on "colluvial" 

 soils (Clements). 



spiladoph'ilus (<riri\as, cririXddos, a 

 crag, occasionally clay, 0iXew, I 

 love), "dwelling in clay"; Spila- 

 dophy'ta (Qvrov, a plant), " clay 

 plants"; Spiladophy'tia, "clay 

 plant formations." 



Spinula'tion, a minute spine or 

 prickle. 



Spi'roid, a delicate thickening in the 

 cells of the tentacles of Drosera 

 (Kerner). 



spllt'ting, employed of hybrids, to 

 denote division of characters from 

 the parents. 



Sporadophy'tia (a-iropas, <nropddos, 

 scattered, Qvrbv, a plant), open 

 plant formations (Clements). 



Sporangid'ium, C. Mueller's term for 

 the Moss-capsule. 



Spore, cf. CARPOSPORE, KINOSPORE, 

 PAULOSPORE, etc. 



Spore-sac = Moss-capsule (Berkeley). 



sporid'eus, bearing spores ; acotyle- 

 donous (Henslow) ; Spor'us, Lind- 

 berg's emendation of SPORA. 



Sporid'ia, should be restricted to 

 spores generated in asci, i.e. pro- 

 mycelial spores (Plowright) ; 

 sporiferous (fero, I bear), spore 

 bearing; Sporogen'esis (yewdw, I 

 beget), the origin of seeds or 

 spores; Spor'ocyst (mWts, a bag), 

 a unicellular structure, producing 

 asexual spores (Davis); sporog'- 

 enous (yevvdo), I beget), pro- 

 ducing spores; sporophyt'ic, be- 

 longing to SPOROPHYTES ; Spor'o- 

 some (0-oW, the body), the body 

 which actually serves for repro- 

 duction (Potonie"); Spor'ostrotes, -ae 

 (ffrpuros, spread), plants distributed 

 by means of spores (Clements). 



Squamel'lae (2) = LODICULES. 



Stalk-cell, the cell arising from 

 division of the antheridial eel] in 

 Pinus, which does not become the 

 generative cell. 



Stas'ium, a stagnant water forma- 

 tion ; stasopn'ilus (0tX<?w, I love), 

 dwelling in stagnant water ; Staso- 



phy'ta ((pvrbv, a plant), stagnant 

 water plants (Clements). 

 Sta'tolith (XJ0os, stone), starch grains 

 regarded as causing curvature by 

 their weight ; Sta'toplast (7rXa<rr6s, 

 moulded), movable starch grain?. 



Stele, cf. PERIPHERAL <~ ; REPARA- 

 TIVE ^. 



Stem-form, in Germ. Stammform, 

 the ancestral form (Kuntze). 



sten'ohaline (fiXs, dX6s, salt), applied 

 to organisms which can endure 

 only 3 or 4 per cent, of salt in 

 solution (Forel) ; stenopho'tic (</>wy, 

 LOTTOS, light), requiring a constant 

 amount of light, within narrow 

 variation ; stenophyll'ous (0yXXov, 

 a leaf), Beccari's term for plants 

 on river banks, etc. , with linear or 

 very narrow leaves; Stenoph'yllism 

 is the state in question ; steno- 

 ther'mic (BepM, heat), needing a 

 uniform temperature. 



stephanokon'tan, relating to Stepha- 

 nokontae, a class of green Algae, 

 whose zoospores are characterised 

 by a crown of cilia round the 

 anterior end. 



Stereogen'nylae (7^0$, race; ifXr; = 

 materia), Radlkofer's term for 

 BRYOPHYTES. 



stereodonta'ceous, allied to the genus 

 Stertodon. 



stereomat'ic, resembling or com- 

 posed of STEREOME ; Stereone'ma, 

 pi. Stereone'mata, solid threads 

 which make up the capillitium 

 in Futigo (Zopf ) ; stereospenn'ous 

 (ffirepfj.a, a seed), with solid seed 

 (Heinig). 



Ster'rhiuin (o-rep/jos, rugged of coun- 

 tries), a moor formation ; ster- 

 roph'ilus (0tXew, I love), moor- 

 loving; Sterrophy'ta ((pvrbv, a 

 plant), moor plants (Clements). 



Stich'id = STICHIDIUM. 



stiginar'ian, resembling Stigmaria in 

 structure or affinities. 



Stip'el, suggested by F. v. Mueller 

 for STIPELLA. 



Strand, (2) shore, as ~ -plants. 



strephotricli'ial, belonging to the 

 genus Strephothrix. 



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