entomogenous 



EpicMle 



entomog'enous (evTOftos = Insect, 

 vdu>, I bring forth), used of Fungi 

 which are parasitic on insects ; 

 entomoph'ilous (<f>i\eu, I love), ap- 

 plied to flowers which are fertilized 

 by insects ; Entomoph'ilae, plants 

 whose flowers are fecundated by 

 insects, especially lepidoptera ; En- 

 tomopn'ily, the condition just de- 

 scribed ; Entomophy'tal (Upvrov, a 

 plant), entomogenous. 



Entopar'asite (fvros, within, Trapdcnros, 

 a parasite), a parasite living en- 

 tirely within its host (Crozier) ; 

 entophy'tal ((>UTOI>, a plant) = endo- 

 phytal ; En'topnyte, Entophy'ta, a 

 plant which grows within other | 

 plants, as some Fungi; adj. ento- 

 phyt'ic ; en'tozoic (u>ov, an animal), 

 growing within animals, endozoic. 



En'velope, surrounding parts, the 

 Flo'ral En'velopes are the perianth 

 or its analogues ; ~ Appara'tus, the 

 sporocarp in Ascomycetes exclusive 

 of the asci, and ascigerous cells ; 

 envel'oping 1 = involucrate. 



Environment (Fr.environnement), the 

 aggregate of surrounding condi- 

 tions. 



En'zyme (ev, in, frf/w/, yeast,) an 

 unorganised or soluble ferment, 

 as Diastase ; amylolyt'ic ~ , as 

 Diastase, converting starch into 

 sugar ; fat ~ , converting olein into 

 oleic acid and glycerine ; glu'coside 

 <- , as Synaptase or Emulsin; hydro- 

 lyt'ic ~, splitting up by hydro- 

 lysis ; invert ~ , turning cane-sugar 

 into grape-sugar ; oxidi'sing <~ , as- 

 sisting in the oxidation of various 

 substances ; proteolyt'ic ~ , decom- 

 posing proteids ; Enzymol'ysis 

 (Xucrts, a loosing), the action of 

 breaking up a substance by the 

 solvent power of an enzyme. 



Eosin'ophil (eosin, a rose-red dye from 

 coal-tar products, 0tXeo>, I love), 

 denotes any substance which be- 

 come coloured by the application of 

 eosin. 



Epan'ody (e-rravoSos, return to normal), 

 a return to a regular state from an 

 irregular, as a peloria flower. 



epan'thous (e-n-i, upon, avOos, a flower), 

 growing upon flowers, as certain 

 Fungi. 



Ep'en (Crozier) = EPENCHYMA. 



Epench'yma (eirl, upon, eyxvpa, an 

 infusion), Nageli's term for fibro- 

 vascular tissue; Epharmo'sis 

 (ap/j.ofa, I join together), the 

 minute anatomy of plants applied 

 to taxonomy ; adj. epharmot'ic ; 

 ephem'eral, ephem'erous, -us, 

 (i]/j.pa, day), (] ) lasting for a day or 

 less, as the corolla of Cistus ; (2) 

 used by Mobius as ~ polycarpic 

 plants, which flower several genera- 

 tions in the same year, as Stdlaria 

 media, Cyr. 



epiba'sal (eVi, upon, /3<x<m, the base), 

 in front of the basal wall, as in the 

 anterior half of a proembryo ; 

 ~ Cell, the upper cell of an oospore 

 in Bryophytes and Pteridophytes ; 

 ~ Oc'tants, the subsequent divi- 

 sions of the <-> CELL ; Ep'iblast, 

 Epiblast'us (pXacrros, a shoot), the 

 first and undeveloping leaf of the 

 plumule of grasses, a rudimentary 

 second cotyledon ; Epiblas'tanus is 

 a synonym ; Epiblaste'ma, a super- 

 ficial outgrowth from leaves ; Epi- 

 blaste'sis, growth of Lichens from 

 gonidia which develop on the 

 parent Lichen. 



Epible'ma (eVt/JA^a, a cloak), (1) the 

 extremity of the roots with its 

 root-hairs (Schleiden), now re- 

 stricted to the primary integu- 

 mentary tissue of the root, apart 

 from the root-cap ; (2) an epider- 

 mis of the thickened and flattened 

 cells (Lindley). 



epicalyc'ius (iwl, upon, KaXuf, a cup) 

 = EPISTAMINEOUS ; Epica'lyx, an in- 

 volucre resembling an accessory 

 calyx as in Malva ; Ep'icarp 

 (/capros, fruit), the external layer 

 of a pericarp ; epicarpan'thous ; 

 -us (dvdos, a flower), epicarp'- 

 ous, epicarp'ius, -icus, superior, 

 applied to a flower or its parts ; 

 Ep'ichil, Ep'ichile, Epichil'ium 

 (xeZXos, a lip), the terminal part of 

 the labellum of an orchid when it 



