Asphyxia 



(ADDITIONS) 



Avoform 



Asphyxia (dff<f>v^ia, without a pulse), 

 in plants, insensibility brought on 

 by suspension of respiration due 

 to absence of oxygen ( Dutrochet). 



Aspidia'ria, formerly the name of a 

 genus of fossils, now applied to a 

 lepidodendroid stem when the cor- 

 tex has been stripped off (Scott), 



assimilative, conducing to ASSIMILA- 

 TION ; ~ Fil'aments, sterile hairs 

 which grow intermixed with the 

 sporangia of such Algae as Ecto- 

 carpus. 



aster'iate (Heinig) = ASTEROID. 



Asterid'ia, pi. (idiov = diminutive), 

 spinous or stellate bodies occurring 

 in the cells of Conjugatae, possibly 

 some parasitic form (Archer) ; As- 

 terosphae'ria, pi. (afiaipa, a sphere), 

 a synonym of the same. 



Astigmatlcae, Knuth's term for wind- 

 fertilized plants which do not pos- 

 sess stigmas, such as Gymnosperms. 



astrag'aloid (a<rTpdya\os, a knuckle- 

 bone, etSos, resemblance), dice- 

 shaped (Heinig). NOTE. This 

 definition has no reference to any 

 affinity with the genus Astragalus. 



As'trophe, or As'trophy (a, not, a-rpotpij, 

 a turning), negative EPISTROPHE 

 (S. Moore) ; Asyn'gamy (<rvv, to- 

 gether, yd/mos, marriage), the natural 

 prevention of cross-pollination by 

 the respective plants or species 

 flowering at different times (Ker- 

 ner) ; asynthetlc (avvQeros, com- 

 pounded) Gonid'ia, free Lichen 

 gonidia, occurring on the outside 

 of the thallus (Koerber). 



atavist'ic (afavus, an ancestor), revert- 

 ing to an older type of structure. 



at' ornate ( + ATOM), "sprinkled with 

 atoms" (Stevenson). 



atrate', atra'tous, given by Heinig as 

 " turning black " ; a'trous, dead 

 black (Heinig). 



atyp'ic (a, not, TVTTOS, a type), not 

 typical, departing from the type. 



Attach'ment - disc, the holdfast or 

 basal hapteron of an Alga. 



aucupa'rious (aucupatorius, used in 

 fowling), " attracting birds " 

 (Heinig). 



aulacocar'pous (a5\a, a furrow, 

 Kapiros, fruit), with furrowed fruit, 

 sulcate (Heinig). 



Au'lax-galls, galls which resemble 

 stone-fruits produced by gall- 

 wasps of the genus Aulajc, espe- 

 cially on Labiatae (Kerner). 



aurantia'ceous, like the orange, 

 Aurantium, or the order to which 

 it belongs (Heinig). 



auric'ulate, auricula' tus, eared, 

 auricled. 



Au'to-allog'amy ( + ALLOGAMY), the 

 condition of a species when some 

 individuals are adapted for self- 

 fertilization, and others for cross- 

 fertilization, as in Viola tricolor, 

 Linn. (Engler and Prantl). 



Autoch/thon (avrox^uv, indigenous), 

 an aboriginal form ; a native plant, 

 not an introduction ; adj. autoch'- 

 thonal ; ~ The'ory, the theory that 

 each species originated where now 

 found (L. H. Bailey). 



Autofecunda'tion ( + FECUNDATION), 

 self-fertilization; autogamlc, auto- 

 gamous, self-fertilized ; Autoph'agy 

 ((pdyu, I eat), employed by Dangeard 

 to express complete fusion of 

 gametes ; autopot'amic (Trora/xoj, a 

 river), applied to Algae which 

 have become adapted to living in 

 streams ; a modified form of 

 tychopotamic plmkton (Zimmer) ; 

 autotroph'ic (rpo<p^, food), ap- 

 plied to plants which can 

 collect their own nutriment, non- 

 parasitic. 



Auxan'agram, another spelling of 



AUXANAGRAMME. 



Auxiliaries, used by S. Moore for 

 SYNERGIDAE ; auxiliary Nu'cleus, 

 the nucleus of the auxiliary cell in 

 Drudesnaya purpurifera, J. Agh. 

 which does not fuse with the 

 nucleus of the sporogenous cell 

 when the cytoplasm does (Olt- 

 manns) ; ~ Ve'sicles = SYNER- 

 GIDAE. 



Av'oform (avus, a grandfather, + 

 FORM), the still existing stem-form 

 of RAMIFORM and PRAEFORM 

 (Kuntze). 



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