Elaterium 



embryonal 



Elate'rium (eXor^tos, driving away) 

 = COCCUM. 



ela'tus (Lat. , exalted), tall, lofty. 



electri'nus(r|Xe/cTpov, amber), yellowish 

 amber coloured; Electrol'ysis (XuVty, 

 a loosing), analysis by electric force, 

 adj. electrolytic ; electrotrop'ic 

 (rpoTTos, direction), actuated by 

 electric force ; Elec'tropism, the 

 electric impulse which governs 

 certain plant-functions. 



Element'ary Or'gans, the constituents 

 of cellular and vascular tissue. 



eleutheran'therous (eXet/0e/w, free, 

 + ANTHER), having the anthers 

 distinct, not united ; eleuthero- 

 pet'alous (TreTa\oi>, a flower-leaf), 

 polypetalous, having free petals, 

 choripetalous ; eleutherophyll'ous 

 (<f>v\\ov, a leaf), separate leaved ; 

 eleutherosep'alous ( + SEPALUM) 

 with distinct sepals. 



eleva'ted, applied to a Lichen when 

 raised above the surface of its 

 matrix. 



Ell, a measure variously understood, 

 the English ell being 45 inches, the 

 French ell 54 inches. 



Elleb'orin, an acrid resin from Eranthis 

 hy emails, Salisb. formerly con- 

 sidered a species of Helleborus. 



ellip'soid, ellipsoi'dal, ellipsoida'lis 

 (e\\fi\f/is, a falling short, eldos, 

 like), an elliptic solid, sometimes 

 employed for elliptic ; ellip'tic, 

 ellip'tical, ettip'ticus, shaped like 

 an ellipse, oblong with regularly 

 rounded ends. 



Elitric'ulus = ELYTRICULUS. 



eloc'ular, elocula'rls (e, priv. loculus, 

 a cell), unilocular. 



Elonga'tion, Elonga'tio (elonyo, I 

 lengthen), remarkable for length 

 in comparison with its breadth ; 

 elonga'ted, elonga'tiis (drawn out in 

 length). 



Elytric'ulus (ZXvrpov, a covering), 

 Necker's term for a floret in Com- 

 positae ; ely'triform (forma, shape), 

 resembling the wing-case of a beetle 

 (Crozier). 



emar'cid, emar'ddus (emarcesco, I 

 wither), flaccid, withered. 



emar'ginate emargina'tus (emargino, 

 to deprive of its edge), having a 

 notch cut out, usually at the ex- 

 tremity ; Emarginatu'ra (Lat.), 

 the notch at the apex of an 

 emarginate leaf. 



Em/bolus (?/j.j3o\os, a pump piston), a 

 plug, a process which projects 

 downwards from the upper part of 

 the cavity of the ovary of Armeria, 

 and closes the foramen of the 

 ovule. 



emboss'ed, umbonate, having a slight 

 central nodule. 



embra'cing, clasping by the base, 

 amplectant. 



Em'bryo, Em'bryon (2/j.j3pvov, a foetus), 

 the rudimentary plant formed in a 

 seed or within the archegonium of 

 Cryptogams; ~ Buds, "spheroidal 

 solid bodies, of unknown origin, re- 

 sembling woody nodules formed in 

 the bark of trees, and capable of 

 extending into branches " (Lind- 

 ley) ; ~ Cell = 0osphere ; ~Nod'ule, 

 the same as EMBRYO BUDS : ~ Sac, 

 the cell in the ovule in which the 

 embryo is formed, also by some 

 termed the macrosporo : fixed ~, 

 a leaf-bud ; embryogen'ic (yevvdw, 

 I bring forth), belonging to the 

 development of the embryo ; ~ 

 Bodies, in Mucorini, naked masses 

 of protoplasm apparently derived 

 from the nuclei, at each end of the 

 zygospore, ultimately fusing to- 

 gether, becoming ~ Spheres, then 

 surround themselves with a double 

 cell-wall, and finally become EM- 

 BRYONIC SPHERES (Le'ger) ; Embryo- 

 g'eny, formation of the embryo ; 

 direct ~ , when a spore gives rise 

 to an embryo resembling the adult 

 form ; heteroblast'ic ~ , when the 

 embryo differs widely from the 

 adult form it is not borne direct, 

 but as a lateral outgrowth ; ho'lo- 

 blastic ~ , in which the whole of the 

 ovum takes part ; ho'moblast'ic ~ , = 

 DIRECT ^ ; in'direct ~ = HETERO- 

 BLASTIC <~ ; meroblast'ic, when 

 only a portion of the ovum takes 

 part in the development ; embry'o- 



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