Anthoclinium 



antipodal 



colouring of flowers ; xanthein ; 

 Anthoclin'ium (K\II>T], a bed), the 

 receptacle of a Composite ; Antho- 

 cy'anin (KVO.VOS, dark blue), the 

 blue, sometimes red, colouring of 

 flowers ; Antho'dium (avOuS-r)-*, 

 flower-like), the capitulum of the 

 Compositae, by some restricted to 

 the involucrum ; Anthoecol'ogist 

 (ol/cos, house, \6yos, discourse), 

 a student of plant-life in its en- 

 vironment ; an'thoid (eldos, resem- 

 blance), flower-like, as the male 

 inflorescence of Poly tri chum ; An- 

 tholeu'cin (\ev/cos, clear), the so- 

 called colouring matter of white 

 flowers; An'tholite (\i6os, a stone), 

 a fossil plant which has the ap- 

 pearance of a flower ; Anthol'ysis 

 (Xvais, a loosing), the retrograde 

 metamorphosis of a flower ; 

 anthoph'ilous (0iX<?w, I love, ap- 

 plied to plants with flower-visiting 

 insects which aid cross-fertilization. 

 Anthoph'ilus, a florist, a cultivator 

 of garden flowers ; An'thophore, 

 Anthoph'orum, -us, (<j>optia, I bear), 

 a short stalk which sometimes 

 occurs between the calyx and petals, 

 supporting the interior organs, as in 

 Silene ; anthoph'orous, -rux, bearing 

 flowers, floriferous ; Anth'ophyta 

 (<f>vrov, plant), R. Brown's term for 

 Phanerogams ; Anthop'tosis (TTTWCTIS, 

 a falling), the fall of flowers. 

 An'thos, AnthuK (iLvdos, a flower,) used 

 in Greek compounds ; An'thosperm 

 (ffTrep/j.0,, a seed), " a little coloured 

 concretion scattered in the tissues 

 of certain Fucoids," (Lindley). 

 Anthotax'is, Anthotax'y (rd, 

 order), the arrangement of the 

 flower ; Anthoxan'thin (frvOos, 

 yellow), the colouring matter of 

 yellow flowers. 



anthrac'inus (Lat.), coal-black. 

 Anthrac'nose (avOpa^, coal, i/oVos, dis- 

 ease) the "Birds-Eye Rot" of the 

 Vine, caused by Phoma ampelinum, 

 Berk, et Curt. ; An'thrax, disease 

 in animals due to Bacillus Anthracis, 

 Cohn. 

 Anthu'rus J (avdos, flower, ovpa, tail), 



a cluster of flowers at the end of a 

 long stalk ; An' thus, of old authors = 

 COROLLA. 



anti-, in composition = against. 

 An'tiarine, the active poisonous prin- 

 ciple of the upas tree, Antiaris 

 toxicaria, Lesch. 



Antibi'onts (avrl, against, pios, life), 

 antipathetic organisms ; Antibio'sis, 

 antipathy, a term proposed by 

 Vuillemin. 



anti'cal, anti'cous, anti'cus (Lat. fore- 

 most), the fore-part ; that most re- 

 mote or turned away from the axis ; 

 Spruce uses antical to denote the 

 upper (dorsal) face of a stem in 

 Hepaticae. 



anticli'nal (avrl, against, K\ivew, I in- 

 cline), perpendicular to the sur- 

 face; ~ Cells, " parent" -cells which 

 persist in their primitive state with- 

 out producing antipodal cells or 

 vesicles ; Vesque further subdivides 

 them into (a) inert, (b) active or 

 albuminigenous, (c) cotyloid ; <~ 

 Planes, ~ Walls, those which cut the 

 surface or the periclinal walls at 

 right angles ; anticlinan'thous (avOos, 

 flower), the inferior scaly parts of 

 someComposite flowers ; antid'romal, 

 antid'romous (5p6/xos, a course), the 

 direction of a lateral spiral being 

 different to that of the main stem ; 

 ~ Tors'ion, a twist against the 

 direction of twining ; Antid'romy, 

 diverse twining ; used also when 

 different individuals of the same 

 species display right and left-hand 

 torsion ; antimycot'ic(/ai)/c7;s, ^K^TOS, 

 fungus), fungicidal ; antipathetic 

 (n-ddos, suffering), applied to plants 

 which do not easily unite by graft- 

 ing (Crozier) ; antipedunc'ular 

 (pedunculus, a stalk), placed oppo- 

 site a peduncle ; antipet'alous 

 (n-fToXov, a flower leaf), opposite or 

 superposed to a petal, not alternate, 

 An'tiphyt ((pvrov, plant), in alter- 

 nation of generations, that gen- 

 eration which produces reproductive 

 cells asexually ; antip'odal (TTOUS, 

 TroSos, foot) ~ Cells, three cells at 

 the base of the embryo sac, formed 



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