deceptive 



Degradation 



plants, applied to Parnnssia and 

 other flowers which seem to offer 

 much honey, but the apparent 

 glands are dry (Knuth). 



Decidailigp[io'sa, pi. (deciduus, ready to 

 fall ; lignosus, woody), associations 

 of trees and shrubs which lose their 

 leaves during unfavourable periods, 

 and usually have protected buds 

 (Riibel); decid'uous, -uus, falling in 

 season, as petals fall after flowering, 

 or leaves in autumn, evergreens ex- 

 cepted ; Deciduous'ness, the quality 

 of falling once a year. 



deo'linate, declma'tiis (Lat. turned 

 aside), beat or curved downward or 

 forward ; decli'ned, directed ob- 

 liquely. 



Decoloora'tion, Decolora'tio (Lat.), 

 absence of colour ; decororate, de- 

 colora'tns (Lat.), discoloured, dis- 

 charged of colour, colourless. 



decom'poand, decompos'itus (Lat.), 

 several times divided or com- 

 pounded. 



decort'icated (decoriicatio, barking), 

 deprived of bark ; Decortica'tion, 

 stripping ofl" bark. 



decreas'ingly pinn'ate, where the 

 leaflets diminish in size from the 

 base upwards. 



decum'bent, -ena (Lat. reclining), 

 reclining, but with the summit 

 ascending. 



decur'rent, decur'rens (Lat.), running 

 down, as when leaves are prolonged 

 beyond their insertion and thus 

 run down the stem ; decar'sive, 

 dtciirsi'vus {decursics, a descent) = 

 DECURRENT ; decur'sively pin'nate, 

 the leaf .seemingly pinnate, but the 

 leaflets decurrent along the petiole. 



decus'sate, decussa'tus (Lat. divided 

 crosswise), in pairs alternately at 

 right angles ; DecnisA'tion, a cross- 

 ing by pairs of leaves. 



D^doublement (Fr.), doubling = 

 Chorisis. 



dedn'cens (Lat: leading forth), applied 

 by Macfarlane to the conducting 

 surface in the pitchers of Nepenthes. 



Deduplica'tion (Fr. deduplication), a 

 synonym of D£doublement. 



Defarina'tion (de, from, farina, flour), 

 De Vries's term for suppressed or 

 greatly lessened formation of atarch. 



deferent [defero, 1 bring down), con- 

 veying anything downward. 



deferred' Shoots, those produced by 

 buds which have remained long 

 dormant 



Leferrifica'tion {de, from, ferrum, 

 iron, facio, I make\ the reduction 

 of iron by Ferribacte'ria (Lipman). 



definite, defini'tus (precise, clear), 

 (1) precise ; (2) of a certain number, 

 as of stamens not exceeding twenty ; 

 (3) applied to inflorescence it means 

 cymose ; ~ Inflores'cence, where the 

 axis ends in a flower ; defln'itive 

 Nn'cleus, a result of the fusion of 

 one nucleus each from th6 micro- 

 pylar and chalazal ends of the 

 embryo sac. 



defix'ed, defix'us (Lat. fastened) = 

 immersed. 



deflect'ed, dejiex'us (Lat. bent aside), 

 bent or turned abruptly downwards ; 

 deflezed', bent outwards, the oppo- 

 site of inflexed ; Deflexion, turned 

 downwards. 



deflo'rate, dejlora'tus (Lat.), past the 

 flowering state. 



deflow'er, to deprive of flowers. 



deflu'ent (L^^-defliiens), flowing down. 



defo'liate, defolia'ttis (Mod. Lat.), 

 having cast its leaves ; Defolia'tion, 

 the act of shedding leaves. 



De'form {defortnis, misshapen), used 

 by 0. Kuntze for Deformity ; De- 

 f orma'tion, a malformation or altera- 

 tion from the normal state; de- 

 formed', disfigured, distorted ; De- 

 form'ity,. Btformfitas (Lat.), an 

 unshapely organism ; a monster. 



degen'erate {degenero, to become un- 

 like the race), degraded in function 

 or form ; Degenera'tion, an altera- 

 tion for the worse, or less highly 

 developed, as when scales appear 

 instead of leaves. 



degerm'ed {de, from, germen, an em- 

 bryo), used of a seed deprived of its 

 embryo (Pond). 



Degrada'tion {degradatio, L. Lat. the 

 act of reducing), (1) less highly differ- 



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