Adipocelluloses 



Aerobium 



some other organ or part ; Goebel 

 restricts it to union of dissimilar 

 parts ; cf. COHESION. 



Adipocelluloses (adepx, adipls, fat, + 

 Cellulose), a group of bodies which 

 constitute the cuticular tissues of 

 leaves and fruits ; cf. CELLULOSE. 



adisca'lis(a, without ; difficos, a quoit), 

 destitute of a disk. 



adli'gans (ad, to ; ligo, I tie), holding 

 fast or binding, as the aerial hold- 

 fasts of ivy. 



Adminic'ulum (Lat., a prop) = FUL- 

 CRUM. 



admoti'vus (ad, to ; moveo, I move), 

 when in germination the albumen 

 remains attached to the sheath of 

 the cotyledon. 



adnas'cent, adnas'cens (adnascor, to 

 grow to), growing to or upon some- 

 thing else ; Adnas'cens; (1) a young 

 bulb, as a "clove " of garlic ; (2) 

 a sucker of some Monocotyledons. 



ad'nate, adna'tus (adnascor, to grow 

 to), attached the whole length, 

 <~ Anth'ers have the lobes attached 

 their entire length to the filament ; 

 Adna'tion, the state in question ; 

 adnexed' (nexo, to tie), used of the 

 lamellae of some Agarics, which 

 reach the stem, but are not adnate 

 to it; ad'pressed, adpress'us = AP- 

 PRESSED; adscend'ent = ASCENDENT ; 

 adsurg'ent, adsurg'ens = ASSURGE'$T. 



adunc'ate,adunc'ous (aduncus, hooked) 

 bent or crooked as a hook. 



adust' us (Lat.), soot-coloured, fuli- 

 ginous. 



adventit'ious, adventit'ius (ad, to ; 

 venio, I come), applied to plants 

 lately introduced ; ~ Buds, those 

 produced abnormally, as from the 

 stem instead of the axils of the 

 leaves ; ~ Roots, those which do 

 not arise from the radicle or its 

 subdivisions, but from other part ; 

 advent'ive = ADVENTITIOUS. 



ad'verse (ad, to; verso, I turn); (1) 

 opposite ; (2) facing the main axis 

 or other object; advers'us (Lat.), 

 opposite ; adversifo'liate, adversi- 

 fo Hits (folium, a leaf), having oppo- 

 site leaves. 



Adynaman'dry (dSwafda, weakness ; 

 aviip, dvdpos, a man), Delpino's 

 term for self-sterility ; that is, 

 when a flower does not set seed 

 from its own pollen. 



Aecid'iospore ( A ecidium, infra ; (nropa, 

 a seed), a spore formed in the fol- 

 lowing : Aecid'ium (probably from 

 olxlSiov, a little house), a sporocarp 

 consisting of a cup-shaped envelope, 

 its interior surface consisting of a 

 hymenium, from whose basiHia 

 the aecidiospores are successively 

 thrown off; the name was pro- 

 pounded by Persoon as a genus of 

 Fungi, but it is now regarded as 

 only a form-genus of Uredineae. 



Aecol'ogy = Eco LOGY or OECOLOGY. 



ae'neus (Lat. bronze), used for brass- 

 coloured ; sometimes for verdigris. 



aequa'lis, ae'quans (Lat.), equal or 

 equalling ; similar in size, uniform ; 

 aequilat'eral, aequilatera'lis, equal- 

 sided, of equal length ; aequali- 

 flor'us (Lat.), with flowers alike in 

 form and character ; aequimag'nus 

 J (Lat.), equal sized ; aequinoc'tial, 

 aequinoctia'lis, pertaining to the 

 equinox ; used of flowers, which 

 open or close at stated hours ; 

 aequivalv'is (Lat.), having valves 

 of flowers or fruit of similar size ; 

 aequive'nius (Lat.), all the veins of 

 equal distinctness. 



ae'rating (aiir, air) Roots, peculiar 

 roots rising out of the mud, covered 

 with a loose, corky tissue, and 

 having large intercellular spaces ; 

 ae'rial, ae'rius, plants (or parts of 

 plants) living above the surface of 

 the ground or water ; ~ Plants, 

 epiphytes, as Tillandsia and many 

 tropical orchids ; ~ Roots, those 

 which vegetate altogether above 

 the ground ; Aerench'yma (eyxvpa, 

 that poured out), Schenk's term 

 for a tissue of thin-walled cells, 

 and large inter-cellular spaces, 

 found in the stems of some marsh- 

 plants, serving for aeration or 

 floating tissue ; Aero'bium (/3t'oy, 

 life), an organism which thrives only 

 in the presence of air or free oxy- 



