Hemifonn 



Herborization 



<J)VTOV, a plant), employed by Went 

 for a plant which at first roots in 

 the soil, afterwards developing 

 aerial roots ; Hem'ifbrm ( + Form), 

 used of heteroecious Fungi, having 

 uredospores and teleutospores, the 

 latter only germinating after a 

 resting period ; hemigona'ris J 

 (ybvos, offspring), employed when a 

 part of both stamens and pistils 

 are changed into petals ; Hemigy'- 

 rus (yupos, round), = FOLLICLE ; 

 hemisyngyn'icus (crtiv, with, yvvrj, 

 ywaiKos, a woman), half-adherent 

 (Lindley) ; Hemipar'asite ( + PARA- 

 SITE), a facultative saprophyte, a 

 parasite which can exist as a sapro- 

 phyte ; Hem'iphyll (<j>6\\ov, a leaf), 

 the hypothetic segment of a 

 carpel ; ov'ular <- , placen'tal ~ , 

 those which become modified into 

 special parts of the ovary respec- 

 tively, cf. TRIPHYLLOME ; Henri- 

 sap'rophyte (crawpos, rotten, <f>vrov, 

 a plant), a facultative parasite ; 

 hem'iscMst (O-XKTTOS, split), in 

 brood - cell formation when the 

 nucleus only divides, the cyto- 

 plasm remaining whole (Hartog) ; 

 Hemitetracotyle'don (reTpds, four, 

 + COTYLEDON), De Vries's ex- 

 pression when both cotyledons 

 are divided, or one normal and 

 the other divided ; Hemite'ria J 

 (rr)pfu, I keep), " a monstrosity 

 of elementary organs, or of ap- 

 pendages of the axis " (Lindley) ; 

 hemi'triehous J (fy>l, TPIKOS, hair), 

 half covered with hairs ; Hemitri- 

 cotyle'don '(rpe?s, three, + COTY- 

 LEDON), used by De Vries, when 

 one cotyledon is apparently divided 

 into three ; hemit'ropal, hemi- 

 t'ropous (T/JOTTOS, direction) (1) am- 

 phitropous, the axis of the ovule 

 being more curved than the ana- 

 tropous condition ; (2) employed 

 by M'Leod for flowers which are 

 restricted to certain insects for 

 honey-getting. 



Hemp, the fibro-vascular tissue of 

 Cannabis saliva, Linn. 



Hen-and-cbickens, proliferous flowers, 



the centre flower or head being 

 surrounded by subsidiary flowers. 



Henslo'vian Mem'brane, the cuticle ; 

 so named from Prof. Henslow's 

 researches on the same. 



hepatic, hepat'icous, -cus (Lat., dis- 

 eased in the liver), liver-coloured, 

 dark, purplish-red ; Hepaticol'ogist, 

 an expert in Hepaticae ; Hepati- 

 col'ogy (\6yos, discourse, the study 

 of the Hepaticae or Liverworts. 



Heptagyn'ia (en-rot., seven, yvvfj, a 

 woman), a Linnean class of plants 

 having seven pistils ; heptagyn'ian, 

 possessing seven pistils ; hepta- 

 m'erous (/uepos, a part), having the 

 parts in sevens ; heptan'der (dvrjp, 

 dvdpos, a man), heptan'drous, having 

 seven stamens ; Heptan'dria, a 

 Linnean order of plants with seven 

 stamens ; heptan'drian, relating to 

 the same, or possessing seven 

 stamens ; heptari'nus (appTjv, male), 

 Necker's term for HEPTANDROUS ; 

 hep'tarch, a fibro-vascular cylinder 

 or stele with seven rays or bundles ; 

 heptapet'alous (ireToXov, a flower 

 leaf), having seven petals ; hepta- 

 phyl'lous ((f>v\\ov, a leaf), with 

 seven leaves. 



Herb, Herha (Lat., grass, herbage, 

 plant), a plant with no persistent 

 stem above ground ; herba'ceous, 

 -cens, ( + aceous), (1) with the text- 

 ure, colour and properties of a 

 herb ; (2) with annual stems from 

 a perennial root, as an <~ Peren'nial ; 

 Herb'age, herbs collectively, grass, 

 pasture ; Herb'al, (1) a volume con- 

 taining descriptions of plants, such 

 as John Gerard's "Herball"; (2) 

 sometimes = HERBARIUM ; Herb'al- 

 ist, (1) a writer of herbals, one of 

 the old botanists ; (2) a person 

 skilled in the knowledge of herbs ; 

 Herb'arist, an old word for botan- 

 ist ; Herba'rium, a collection of 

 dried plants, formerly styled a 

 " hortus siccus" ; Herb'elet, Herb'- 

 let, a small herb ; herbes'cent, 

 growing into herbs ; Herb'orist, a 

 collector of plants for medical use ; 

 Herboriza'tion, a botanic excursion 



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