herborize 



Heteroecism 



for the collection of plants ; herb'- 

 orize, to botanize. 



Hercog'amy (epKos, a fence, ydfj.os, 

 marriage), applied to hermaphro- 

 dite flowers, when some structural 

 peculiarity prevents self-fertiliza- 

 tion, requiring insect-visitation ; 

 adj. hercogam'ic, herkogam'ic, her- 

 cog'amous, -mus. 



hermaph'rodite, hermaphrodi'tus (Lat. 

 having the characters of both sexes), 

 the stamens and pistils in the same 

 flower. 



Heredity (here'ditas, heirship), pos- 

 session by inheritance, of certain 

 qualities or structures ; bisex'ual ~ , 

 unisex'ual <~ , having the qualities 

 of both, or of one parent only trans- 

 mitted. 



Her'pes (tpT-rjs, a cutaneous eruption) 

 tonsu'rans (Lat., shaving), ring- 

 worm, a disease of the skin as- 

 cribed to Trichophyton tousurans, 

 Malm. 



Her'poblast (epirw, I creep, /SXacrrd?, a 

 shoot), Cramer's term for a con- 

 fervoid prothallimn lying flat on 

 its substratum. 



Hesperid'ium (from the golden fruit 

 of the garden of the Hespcrides), 

 Desvaux's term for a fruit, such 

 as the orange, a superior, poly- 

 carpellary, syncarpous berry, pulpy 

 within, and externally covered with 

 a tough rind ; AURANTIUM of De 

 Candolle. 



Hetae'rio (ercupeio., a brotherhood), 

 a collection of distinct indehiscent 

 carpels produced by a single flower, 

 dry or fleshy, as in the Strawberry, 

 Buttercup, Raspberry ; usually 

 spelled ETAERIO. 



Heterac'my (erepoy, other, CLK/J-TJ, apex), 

 = DICOGAMY ; neteran'drous (dv-^p, 

 avdpos, a man), applied to flowers 

 whose stamens vary in size ; Heter- 

 an'dry, the condition described ; 

 Heterauxe'sis (av^cris, growth), 

 variation in the relative growth 

 of opposite sides of an organ ; 

 heterax'on (aiiuv, a axle), applied 

 by 0. Mueller to a diatom if the 

 transverse axes are unequal ; Hetero- 



albumose' ( + ALBUMOSE), Kuhne's 

 term for proteid, phytalbumose; 

 heteroblas'tic (/JXacrrds, a shoot), 

 applied to embryogeny which is 

 indirect, the offspring not similar to 

 the parent, but producing the adult 

 form as an outgrowth, as in Chara; 

 heterocar'pous, -pus (nap-ros, fruit), 

 producing more than one kind of 

 fruit ; heterocar'picus (fructus), " an 

 inferior fruit " (Lindley ; Hetero- 

 car'py, having two kinds of fruit ; 

 heteroceph'alous, (Ke<pa\rj, the 

 head), bearing two kinds of head 

 or capitulum ; heterochlamyd'eous, 

 -deiis (%Aa/xL>s, a mantle), when the 

 calyx and corolla clearly differ ; 

 Heterocnro'matism (xpw/xa, colour), 

 a change in the colouring or mark- 

 ing of petals ; heterochro'mous, 

 when the florets of the disk in 

 Compositae differ in colour from 

 those of the ray ; heterocis'mal, an 

 ill-contrived version of HETEROECI- 

 ous ; het'erocline, heterocli'nous, 

 -nus (K\ivrj, a bed), with the male 

 and female members on separate 

 receptacles. 



het'eroclite, heteroc'litus (erepd/cXn-os, 

 varying in declension), anomalous 

 in formation. 



heterocy'clic (Yepos, other, KUK-AOS, a 

 a circle), used when the floral 

 whorls are heteromerous, not uni- 

 form or isomerous ; Het'erocyst 

 (/cucrrts, a bag), large inert cells in 

 the filaments of certain Algae, separ- 

 ating contiguous hormogonia ; adj. 

 beterocyst'ous; Heterodi'ody (dioSos, 

 a passage), Van Tieghem's term 

 for the condition of those DIODES 

 which are differentiated into MAC- 

 RODIODES, and MICRODIODES ; cf. 

 ISODIODY ; heterod'romous, -mus 

 (Spo/uoj, a course), having spirals of 

 changing directions, as in some 

 tendrils, or phyllotaxis ; Heterod'- 

 romy, with varied spirals; heteroe'- 

 cious, forms which pass through 

 their stages of development on 

 different hosts are so termed ; 

 metoecious is a synonym ; Heter- 

 oe'cism, the condition of a heter- 



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