schistose 
Sclerotium 
schis’tose, schisto’sus, slaty, as to 
tint. 
Schistog’amae (cxords cleft, yduos, a 
marriage), used by Ardissone to 
designate the Characeae ; Schist’o- 
gams, Schistogam’'ia, Caruel’s terms 
for the same. 
Schi'zocarp (cxifw, I split, kapros, 
fruit), a pericarp which splits into 
one-seeded portions, mericarps or 
‘split - fruits” schizogenet’ic 
ee offspring), formed by split- 
ting ; ~ intercel’lular Spaces are 
formed by the separation of tissue 
elements owing to the splitting of 
the common wall of the cells; 
schizogen’ic Development, develop- 
ment arising from division; 
schizog’enous, =  schizogenetic ; 
schizo-lysig’enous (Avous, a loosing), 
arising from splitting or tear- 
ing of the tissues, applied by 
Tschirch to those cavities which 
arise at first from splitting of 
the cell-wall, but are enlarged 
by the breaking down of sur- 
rounding tissues; schizolyt‘ic, 
applied to those gemmae which are 
detached by splitting through the 
middle-lamellae of the cells 
(Correns); Schizomyce’tes (uUKys, 
a fungus), Naegeli’s term for bac- 
teria (Cohn) ; Schizophy’tae (durdv, 
a plant), was also used by Cohn for 
the preceding ; Schi’zophytes, plants 
which increase by fission; Schizo- 
spor’eae (cropa, a seed), a name 
proposed by Cohn for the Schizo- 
mycetes; Schizoste'ly (o77hy, a 
column), when the single primitive 
stele breaks up into as many 
distinct strands as there are vas- 
cular bundles ; adj. schizoste’lous. 
scim’itar-shaped, acinaciform. 
Sci‘on, a young shoot, a twig used for 
grafting. 
Scirpe’tum, Warming’s term for an 
association of Scirpus plants. 
Scis’sion (scissio, a cleaving) Lay’er 
= APBSCISS-LAYER; scissip’arous 
(pario, I bring forth), used for 
FISSIPAROUS, as bacteria. 
seiu'roid, sciuroi’des, sciuroi’deus 
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(cklovpos, a squirrel, ¢léos, resem- 
blance), curved and bushy, like a 
squirrel]’s tail. 
Scleran’thium (cxAnpos, hard, avéos, 
a flower), an achene enclosed in an 
indurated portion of the calyx- 
tube, as in Mirabilis; Sclerench’- 
yma (éyxvya, an infusion), (1) 
formerly applied to stone-cells, 
ScLEREIDS ; (2) afterwards proposed 
for bast or liber cells, which are 
immensely thickened, with their 
protoplasm lost; ~ Cells, all 
thick-walled cells which retain 
their protoplasm (Tschirch) io 
adj. sclerenchy’matous; as 
Tis’sue, composed of thick- walled 
cells ; Scle’ reid, a sclerotic or stone- 
cell, a strongly thickened or ligni- 
fied cell; it is sometimes spelled 
Scle’rid ;  scle’rised, sclerosed ; 
Scler’oblast (Bracrds, a bud), a 
stone-cell, or sclereid ; Scler’ogen 
(yévos, offspring), the hard lig- 
nified deposits in such cells as 
those which compose the shell 
of the walnut, or grit-cells of the 
pear; Sclerogen’ia, Berkeley’s 
term for induration of parts 
amounting to a disease ; scle’roid, 
sclerot'dus (eldos, resemblance), 
having a hard texture ; sclerophyl'’- 
lus (@vAXov, w leaf), having hard 
and stiff leaves ; scleropoi’dus (zrovs, 
todos, a foot), when persistent 
peduncles become hard and horny ; 
sclero’sed, hardened, lignified ; 
Sclero’sis, the hardening of a 
tissue or cell-wall by lignification 
of a membrane or intercellular 
deposits ; Sclerote’, a proposed 
emendation of ScLEROTIUM ; 
sclero'tic, hardened, stony in 
texture; ~ Cells, grit-cells or 
sclereids; ~ Parench’yma, grit- 
cells or stone-cells in pears, etc. ; 
Sclero’tiet, A. S. Wilson’s name for 
a small ScLEROTIUM ; small concre- 
tions of lime have been also so 
termed, inerror ; sclero’tioid,sclero’- 
toid (eldos, resemblance), like a 
sclerotium ; Sclero’tium, pl. Sclero’- 
tia, (1) a compact mass of hyphae in 
