spurious 
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spurious, spur’ius (Lat., illegitimate), 
counterfeit, false; ~ Branch, = 
PsEUDORAMULUS ;~ Dissep’iment, a 
partition in fruit but not from the 
primary infolding of the margins of 
a carpel or upward growth of the 
torus; ~ Fruit = PszupocaRP ; 
~Tis’sue, cell-aggregation of felted 
hyphae in Agarics, or of coenocytes 
in certain Algae; ~ Whorl, organs 
developed at different times, which, 
by some displacement, appear at 
the same level. 
Squa’ma (Lat., a scale), a scale of any 
sort, usually the homologue of a 
leaf; ~ fructif‘era, a seminiferous 
scale; squama’ceous (+ aceous), 
scaly; squa’mate,  squama’tus, 
furnished with scales ; Squama’tio, 
the unnatural formation of rosettes 
of scale-like leaves as in the Rose- 
Willow ; Squamel'la, diminutive of 
Squama, a scale of the second 
order, or reduced in size, as in the 
disk of Composites ; squamellif’- 
erous, -us (fero, I bear), scale- 
bearing ; squamel’liform (/forma- 
shape), shaped like a scale; 
Squamel’lula, (1) a sub-division of 
the pappus-limb in Compositae ; 
(2) a scale-like appendage within 
the tube of certain corollas; 
squamiferous, -rus (fero, I bear), 
bearing scales ; squamiflo’rus ( /los, 
floris, a flower), having a perianth 
of scale-like bracts, but not disposed 
round an axis as in Coniferae ; 
squa’miform, squamiform’is (forma, 
shape), scale-like; squamig’erous 
(gero, I bear), scale - bearing ; 
squa’moid (eldos, resemblance), 
squamiform (Crozier) ; squa’mose, 
squamo’sus, squa’mous, scaly or 
scale-like; ~ Bulb = Scaty BuLB 
(Crozier) ; squa’mulate = sQUAMU- 
Loss (Crozier) ; Squa’mule, Squam’- 
ula, the hypogynous scale of 
grasses, the lodicule ; squa’muli- 
form, sguamuliform'is (forma, 
shape), resembling « small scale ; 
squa’mulose, sgyuamulo’sus, beset 
with small scales. 
squar’rose, squarro’sus, squar’rous 
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(Lat., rough, scurfy), rough or 
scurfy with spreading and out- 
standing processes, as the tips of 
bracts; squarro’so-denta’tus, having 
teeth which do not lie in the plane 
of the leaf, but at an angle; ~ 
squar’rulose, sguarrwo’sus, diminu- 
tive of squarrose. 
stag-head’ed, a forester’s term for a 
tree which is bare of leaves at the 
top. 
Stalk, any lengthened support of 
an organ, as the seta of a Moss; 
stalked, borne on a stalk ; ~ Gland, 
a glandular hair; Stalk’let, 
a secondary petiole, the stalk of 
leaflets. 
Sta’men, pl. Sta’mina, or Sta’mens 
(orjpwr, a filament), a male sporo- 
phyll in a flower, one of the 
elements of an androecium con- 
sisting of anther and filament; 
ster’ile ~ a body belonging to the 
series of stamens, but without 
pollen;  stam‘inal, stamina’lis, 
stamina’ ris, stamin’eal, staminea’lis, 
relating to stamens, or consisting 
of stamens; stam’inal Col’umn = 
ANDROPHORE ; ~ Leaves, the 
stamens regarded as metamor- 
phosed leaves ; Stam’inalpode (zrovs, 
mo6ds, a foot), Goethart’s name for 
the organs in the androecium of 
Malvaceae which produce the 
stamens on their margins; stam’- 
inate, applied to flowers which are 
wholly male; stamin’eous, -neus 
(Lat., consisting of threads), 
relating to stamens ; Staminid’ium, 
pl. Staminid’ia = ANTHERIDIA ; 
staminife’rous, -rus (fero, I bear), 
staminig’erous (gero, I bear), 
stamen - bearing;  Sta’minode, 
Stamino’dium, (1) a sterile or 
abortive stamen, or its homologue, 
without an anther; (2) = 
ANTHERIDIUM (Gray’s Manual, ed. 
i., p. xxxvi); Stam‘inody, the con- 
version of other floral organs into 
stamens; stam’inose, stamino’sus, 
when the stamens form a marked 
feature of the flower. 
Stan’dard, (1) the fifth or posterior 
