694 GLOSSARY 



Sphseroidal. Somewhat spherical. 



Spindleform. Spindle-shaped, fusiform. 



Sporangiophore. A sporophore bearing a sporangium. 



Sporangium. Sac producing spores endogenously. 



Spore. A single cell which becomes free and is capable of developing 



directly into a new plant. 

 Sporidium. Diminutive of spore, especially applied to the spores pro- 

 duced on promycelia. 

 Sporocarp. A many-celled body serving for the* formation of spores. 

 Sporodochium. The sporiferous apparatus in fungi belonging to 



the Tuberculariales. 

 Sporogenous. Producing spores. 



Stellate. Star-shaped or radiating like the points of a star. 

 Sterigma (ta). A stalk-like branch of a basidium bearing a spore. 

 Stipe. A general term for stalk. 

 Stipitate. Having a stipe. 

 Stolon. A sucker or rimner. 

 Stoloniferous. Bearing stolons. 

 Stratose. In distinct layers. 

 Striate. Marked with fine longitudinal parallel lines. 

 Strigose. With sharp-pointed appressed straight and stiff hairs or 



bristles. 

 Stroma (ta). A cushion-like body, on or in which the perithecia are 



immersed. 

 Stromatic. Pertaining to or resembling a stroma. 

 Staffed. Solid, farctate. 

 Stylospore. A spore borne on a filament. 

 Sub. Under or below; in compounds usually implies an approach to the 



condition designated; somewhat or slightly. 

 Subiculuin. Subicle. A felted or byssoid basal stratxun of hyphse. 

 Subulate. Awl-shaped. 

 Sulcate. Grooved or furrowed. 

 Superficial. On the surface. 

 Suspensor. A club-shaped or conical portion of hypha adjoining a 



gamete-cell. 

 Sympodium. An axis made up of the bases of a number of successive 



axes arising as branches in succession one from the other. 

 Syn. Signifies adhesion or growing together. 

 Synema. A colunm of combined filaments. 



