sapotaceous 
(SUPPLEMENT) 
Shade plants 
Bapota’ceous, relating to or resem- 
bling Sapotaceae. 
Sap’rium, a saprophytic plant forma- 
tion (Clements). 
Saprogen'ic = SAPROGENOUS. 
saprolegnia’ceous, allied to or resem- 
bling Saprolegnia. 
Sap‘rophile, a plant growing on 
humus, 
Sar’cocaul (xavdds, a stem), a fleshy 
stemmed plant, as the Cacti and 
many Euphorbias (J. Smith) ; Sar’- 
cospores, -ae (+ Sporg), Cle- 
ments’s name for plants having 
fleshy fruits ; Sarcotes’ta (+Txsta), 
the fleshy outer seed coat, as of 
Cycas (F. W. Oliver). 
Sathrophy’ta (¢urdv, a plant), humus 
plants ; Sathrophy’tia, saprophytic 
formations (Clements). 
Sat'us (Lat., a sowing), arising from 
seed sown ; Sat‘iform (+ Form), a 
Novirorm which is reproduced by 
seed (Kuntze). 
scalar'iform Conjuga’tion, when the 
entire algal filament is concerned 
in the act of conjugation (A. W. 
Bennett), 
Scale-trace, the strand connecting 
scale with stem in Bryophytes ; 
Scales, intersem’inal, the scales of 
a cone-like fruit which are between 
successive seeds or ovules. 
Schistogam‘ia = ScHISTOGAMAE, Cha- 
raceae (Caruel). 
Schizob’olites (8oAls, a missile), a pro- 
duct of catabolism, due to decom- 
position of a body of definite com- 
position (Beyerinck) ; schizozog’o- 
nous (yévos, race), Correns’s term 
for the same phenomenon as that 
called 1sogonous by De Vries ; not 
breeding true; schizotrach’eal, 
tracheae dividing ; schizom’erous 
(uepds, a part), splitting into por- 
tions. 
scioph’ilus (cx.d, shade, giAdw, I love), 
shade-loving ; Sciophy’ta (gurdv, a 
plant), plants of the shade ; Scio- 
phy’tia, shade plant-formations 
(Clements). ; 
Scirpe’tum, an association of Scirpus 
(Clements). 
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scis’sile, separating. 
scitamin’eous, referring to the Scita- 
mineae. 
Sclerocau’ly (kavdés, stem), the pos- 
session of dry hard stems, as in 
Ephedra (Schimper); Scleromy- 
ce’tes, pl. (uvxys, a mushroom), an 
obsolete name for the Sphaeriaceae; 
sclerophyl’lous (@vA\ov, a leaf), 
hard leaved ; Sclerophyl'ly, the con- 
ditionitself; Sclerotes’ta (+TEsTA), 
the hard bony seed-coat, as the 
middle coat of Cycas; Sclerot‘ic, 
hard, stone-like, as the stone-cells 
in fruits; ~ Nests, characteristic 
groups of dark-coloured tissue of 
uncertain origin seen in sections of 
Lyginodendron. 
scotoph’ilus (cxo7os, darkness, piAdw, 
I love), dwelling in darkness ; 
Scotophy’ta (gurdy, a plant), ‘‘dark- 
ness plants”; Scotophy'tia, dark- 
ness plant formations (Clements). 
Scrobicula’tion, employed by algo- 
logists for the minute depressed 
marking in Desmidiae. 
scytone’matous, allied to the genus 
Scytonema (Archer); Scytone’min, 
a brown pigment peculiar to this 
group of Algae. 
Sec’tors, cf. PERICYCLIC SECTORS. 
sedimen’tary Yeast, bottom-yeast. 
Seed, (2) provisionally used in fossil 
botany, for certain seed-like fruits. 
Seed’ling, a plant produced from seed 
in its young stages, cf. p. 236. 
semi-mesophyt‘ic (+ MESOPHYTIC), 
intermediate between xerophytic 
and mesophytic. 
Se’minase, an enzyme occurring in 
Trigonella and Medicago. 
semi-xerophyt‘ic (+ XEROPHYTIC), 
showing a strong tendency to 
xerophytic conditions. 
senescent, growing old or effete. 
se’tose, add, (2) having setae usually 
ending in glands (Babington) ; 
Se’tula, (2) a minute bristle. 
Shade leaves, those adapted to 
modified light; ombrophile; ~ 
plants, (1) quick growing plants, 
employed to protect permanent 
trees, and removed when that 
