ADJECTIVAL TERMS. 



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TABLE OF LATIN ADJECTIVAL TERMS. 



An- extensive code of latin and latinized adjectives 

 has been gradually built up descriptive of the salient 

 characters and of the variations in size, habit, etc., 

 of the Charophyta, by means of which the section to 

 which a plant belongs or the form or state it presents 

 can be concisely indicated. The following table in- 

 cludes the terms most generally in use, with the addi- 

 tion of some others complemental to them. 



Adjectives in the comparative degree serve to 

 indicate a deviation from the typical form. 



The terms enclosed in brackets are practically 

 synonymous with those preceding them. 



Explanations are given only when the terms are 

 not to be found in the glossary and their meaning is 

 not obvious. 



The names of the three main genera, Nitella, 

 Tolypella, and Ghara, being regarded as feminine, the 

 adjectives are given in that gender when they refer to 

 the whole plant, or when usually employed in continua- 

 tion of the generic name or of the word " forma." 



SEXUAL CONDITIONS. HABIT. 



monoecia. laxa, laxior. 



conjuncta antheridia and stricta, strictior. 



oogonia at the same 



nodes, 

 sejimcta = antheridia and 



oogonia at different 



nodes, 

 dioecia. 

 per-protandra. 



parthenogenetica. 



STATURE. 



magna, major, maxima. 



parva, minor, minima. 



pmnila. 



pusilla, perpusilla. 



nuinilis, humilior. 



elongata. 

 condensata. 



robusta, robustior. 

 gracilis, gracilior. 

 tennis, tenuior. 



contracta. 

 expansa. 



concinna. 

 rudis. 



COLOUR. 

 perviridis. 

 virescens. 

 atro-virens. 

 flavo-viridis. 



