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A GLOSSARY 



OF TERMS. ESPECIALLY OF THOSE USED EXCLUSIVELY, 

 OR IN A PARTICULAR SENSE, IN RELATION TO 

 THE CHAROPHYTA. 



Obsolete terms are denoted by f. 



allantoid (aAXae, a sausage; aSoc, resemblance), sausage- 

 shaped. AllantoidesR, a section of Tolypella having 

 sausage-shaped ultimate cells to the rays. 



famphigonium (afufn, around; yov?), seed), a term applied to 

 the oogonium. 



anarthrodactylous (uv, not; apOpov, a joint ; ^ajcruAoc, a finger), 

 having the ultimate rays or dactyls each composed, of a 

 single cell. Anarthrodactylse, a section of Nitella. 



anisostichous (avivoq, unequal ; ort^, a row), having unequal 

 rows, applied to the stem-cortex of Chara, when the 

 primary and secondary rows are of unequal diameters. 



antheridiophore (avOripbc;, flowering; HC>OC, resemblance; 0opoc 3 

 bearing), the term applied by Strasburger to the male 

 generative process, regarding it as a composite organ, 

 formed by the union of eight antheridia. 



antheridium (avOiipbs, flowering; aSoc, resemblance), the male 

 generative organ. 



antherozoids (avtirjobs, flowering; 2<jov, animal; tloc, re- 

 semblance), the minute motile bodies produced in the 

 antheridium, representing the male element. 



arthrodactylous (aoOpov, a joint; SaKruAo^ a finger), having 

 the ultimate rays or dactyls each composed of more 

 than one cell. Arthrodactylas, a section of Nitella. 



aulacanthous (av\bg, a groove ; aKavOa, a spine), having a 

 stem-cortex with the secondary rows more prominent 

 than the primary, so that the spine-cells appear to be 

 seated in furrows. Auldcanthse, a subsection of Chara. 



bistipulate (6As i , twice ; stipula, a little stalk or blade), having 

 two stipulodes at the base of each branch let. 



bract-cells (bractea, a thin plate of metal), vegetative single- 

 celled processes growing outwards from the peripheral 

 cells of the branchlet-nodes in the Charete. 



bracteoles (bracteola, a small bract), cells similar to the bract- 

 cells but arising below the oogonium. 



