stipulose 
Straw 
organ of one cell, in one or more 
rows subtending the branchlets in 
Chara ; stip’ulose, stipulo’sus, hav- 
ing very large stipules. 
stirpa’lis + (sterps, a trunk, a plant), 
growing upon a stem ; Stirps, pl. 
Stir’pes, (1) a race or permanent 
variety, as the Red Cabbage; (2) 
formerly equivalent to species. 
Stock, (1) 4 synonym of Race; (2) 
the stem which receives the scion 
in grafting; (3) «a caudex or 
rhizome which emits roots. 
Stole, Sto’lon, Stol’o (Lat., a shoot), 
a sucker, runner, or any basal 
branch which is disposed to root ; 
stoloniferous -rus (fero, I bear), 
sending out or propagating itself 
by stolons; stolon’iform (forma, 
shape) Stem, ‘‘a slender creep- 
ing stem with minute leaves” 
(Dixon and Jameson). 
Stom’a, pl. Stom’ata (croua, a mouth) 
or Sto’mate, (1) a breathing pore 
or aperture in the epidermis, sur- 
rounded by two guard-cells, leading 
into an intercellular space com- 
municating with internal tissue ; 
according to Tschirch of four types; 
angiosper’mal ~, archego’nial, ~ 
eiso’dial~, and opisthe’lial ~; (2) , 
the ostiole of certain Fungi, cf. 
EprrHRagia ; sto’matal, stomat’ic, 
pertaining to stomata; stomat‘ic 
Cells=GUARD-CELLS ; stomatif’er- 
ous, -rus (fero, I bear), bearing 
stomata ; Stomat‘ium = Stroma; 
stom‘atose, in Mosses, possessing 
stomata; Stom’ium, an opening 
on the side of Fern-sporangia, 
between the lip-cells, through 
which dehiscence takes place. 
Stone, the hard endocarp of a drupe; 
~ Cells, the individual cells which 
have become hardened by second- 
ary deposit, the components of 
sclerogen; ~ Fruit, a drupe such 
as a plum or peach. : 
Stool, (1) » plant from which offsets 
or layers are taken; (2) when 
several stems rise from the same 
root, as in wheat. 
Stop’per, a word applied by Archer 
to the callus-plates in Algae; ~ 
of Pollen, hyaline protoplasmic 
deposits in pollen-tubes (Degaguy). 
Stop’ples, the projections or lids in pol- 
len-grains which fall away to admit 
of the passage of the pollen-tube. 
strag’gling, divaricate. 
Stor’ax, = STYRAXx. 
Stra’gulum { (Lat., a covering), the 
paleae of grasses. 
straight, in a right line, not curved; 
~ ribbed, ~ veined, when the ribs 
run in a straight line, as in the 
leaves of many Monocotyledons. 
Strain, (1) in atavism, the influence 
of some ancestor; (2) a slight 
variety of race. 
Stra’men (Lat.), straw; straminel’lus 
(N.Lat.),somewhat straw-coloured ; 
stramin’eous, -neus, straw-like or 
straw-coloured. 
Strand, a bundle of vascular tissue, 
resembling a cord ; ~ Myce’lium = 
mycelial strand. 
Strand-plants, used by C. Macmillan 
for shore plants. 
stran’gulated (strangulatus, choked), 
contracted and expanded in an 
irregular manner. 
Strap, the ligule of a ray floret in 
Compositae (Crozier); ~ shaped, 
ligulate or lorate. 
| Stra’ta, pl. (stratum, a layer), layers 
of tissue; Stratifica’tion (facio, I 
make), the successive deposition of 
layers on the cell-wall, and the 
arrangement of the said layers; 
strat‘ified, disposed in layers; ~ 
Thal'lus, a Lichen thallus in which 
the gonidia] layer or layers are 
evident; stra’tose, in distinct 
layers (Crozier) ; Stra‘tum, a layer 
of tissue; ~ cellulo’sum, the bark 
layer next within the epidermis ; 
~ cortica‘le, any bast layer; ~ 
gonidia’‘le, ~ gon'imon, the algal 
layer in Lichens; ~ lig’neum, a 
layer of wood; ~ medulla’re, the 
medulla or pith; ~ sporidiif‘erum, 
the flesh of Agarics; ~ sporoph’- 
orum, the hymenium of Fungi. 
Straw, the jointed hollow culm of 
grasses. 
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