multipartite 



membranous 



many-bearing, applied to a cyme 

 which has many axes ; multipar'- 

 tite, multiparti' tus (partitus, 

 divided), many times divided, 

 much cut. 



mul'tiplex (Lat. with many folds), 

 where many of the same parts 

 occur together ; mul'tiple Corolla, 

 one that has more than one whorl 

 of petals ; ~ Fruits, the fruit 

 of a flower-cluster when confluent 

 into one mass ; ~ Pri'mary 

 Root, a root with several main 

 divisions from the crown, as in 

 Dahlia (Crozier) ; multipli'cate 

 (plica, a fold), folded often or 

 repeatedly ; ~ Flow'er, a double 

 flower; Multiplica'tion, multiplica'- 

 tus (Lat., increasing), augmentation, 

 pleiotaxy, pleiophylly ; adj. multi- 

 plica' tus ; multipo'lar (jwlus, a 

 pole), with more than two poles ; 

 ~ Spin'dle, Guignard's term for 

 an achromatic spindle when ex- 

 tending in a star-shape between 

 several nuclei ; Multipolar'ity, the 

 state in question ; multira'diate, 

 multiradia' tus (radius, a ray), with 

 many rays. 



multira'mose (muftus, many, ramus, 

 a branch), much branched ; multi- 

 sep'tate, mult isepta' tus (septum, a 

 hedge), with many partitions ; 

 multise'rial, multiseria'lis, multise'- 

 riate, multiseria'lis (series, a row), 

 in several series ; multisil'iquous 

 ( + SILIQUA), having many pods or 

 seed-vessels. 



Mummiflca'tion of fruits, used by 

 Tubeuf to express the fungal rest- 

 ing body or sclerotium. 



mu'niens (Lat.) fortifying; munien'- 

 tia Fo'lia, protecting leaves which 

 overhang or otherwise guard parts 

 which need protection. 



mu'ral, mura'lis (Lat., pertaining to 

 a wall), growing on walls ; mura'- 

 rius (Lat.) means the same. 



mu'ricate, murica'tus ( Lat. , like 

 murex), rough, with short and 

 hard tubercular excrescences ; 

 muric'ulate, muricula'tus, diminu- 

 tive of the preceding. 



mu'riform, muriform'is (murus,a wall, 

 forma, shape), (1) flattened cellular 

 tissue, with cells resembling bricks 

 in a wall ; (2) Koerber applies the 

 term to certain Lichen-spores. 



muri'nus (Lat., of mice), mouse- 

 coloured. 



Muscardine' (Fr. ), a silkworm disease 

 caused by Botrytis Bassiana, Bals. 



muscar'iform, muscariform'is (mus- 

 carium, a fly-flap, forma, shape), 

 (1) fly-brush shaped ; (2) like the 

 genus Muscari as to habit or in- 

 florescence ; Mus'carine,a poisonous 

 alkaloid from Amanita muscaria, 

 P. Karst. ; Musca'rium (Lat.), a 

 loose and irregular corymb. 



Mus'ci, sing. Mus'cus (Lat.), Mosses; 

 mus'ciform, musciform'is (forma, 

 shape), moss-like in appearance ; 

 muscic'olous (colo, I inhabit), grow- 

 on Mosses ; mus'coid (dSos, like), 

 resembling or belonging to Moss ; 

 Muscol'ogy (\6yos, discourse), a 

 hybrid term for BRYOLOGY ; an 

 account of Mosses. 



mush'room-head'ed, a cylinrlric body 

 topped by a convex head of larger 

 diameter ; fungiform. 



muta'bilis (Lat.), changeable, either 

 in form or colour. 



mu'ticous, mu'ticus (Lat. curtailed, 

 docked), pointless, blunt, awnless. 



rnu'tilus (Lat. maimed), applied to a 

 flower nearly or wholly wanting 

 the petals. 



Mu'tualism ( mutual + ism), the same 

 as Commensalism ; that is, an 

 association of two organisms which 

 is beneficial to both ; also termed 

 Mu'tual Par'asitism. 



Mycelconid'ium ( + CONIDIUM) ([J.VKTJS, 

 a mushroom), A. Fischer's term 

 for STYLOSPORE ; Mycele' = MY- 

 CE'LIUM ; myce'loid (elSos, like), re- 

 sembling a mycelium ; myce'lial, 

 relating to a mycelium ; <~ Lay'er=; 

 MEMBRANOUS MYCELIUM ; ~ Strand, 

 fibrous mycelium ; Mycelium, the 

 vegetative portion of the thallus of 

 Fungi, composed of hyphae ; fila- 

 men'tous ~, the thread-like loose 

 felting of hyphae ; mem'branous ~ 



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