auricular 



autoicouB 



described above (4), also termed alar 

 cells. 



auric'ulate, auricula'tus, eared, 

 auricled. 



aur'iform {auris, the ear ; formis, 

 shape), ear-shaped. 



Auri'go {auritgo, jaundice), a leaf 

 disease shown hy the yellow colour 

 usually due to intumescence- forma- 

 tion (Sorauer). 



auror'eus (Lat. ), the colour of dawn, 

 rosy or golden. 



austere' {auste'rus, harsh), astringent 

 to the taste, as a sloe. 



austra'lis (Lat., southern), occasion- 

 ally applied to plants which are 

 natives of warmer countries, even if 

 not from the southern hemisphere. 



Autae8tlie'sia(ai»T5s,self+A]2STirEsiA), 

 sensibility to some internal stinmlus ; 

 Autallogam'ia {&\\os, other ; 70/110$, 

 marriage), normal pollination (Clem- 

 ents) ; Auf 'ecology ( + Ecology), 

 the relation of individual plants to 

 their habitats (Schroter) ; Autem'- 

 bryo8penn(^/i.^pyo»', a foetus; atrfpfxa, 

 a seed), MacMillan's term for Pau- 

 THENOSPKRMS with the endosperm 

 the result of fecundation from effec- 

 tive pollen arising in the same flower; 

 Auten'dosperm ( -f Endosperm) ; 

 the embryo being the result of 

 fecundation, the effective pollen aris- 

 ing from the same flower as the seed 

 (MacMillan) ; Auto'allog'amy (+ Al- 

 logamy), the condition of a species 

 when some individuals are adapted 

 for self-fertilization and others for 

 cross-fertilization, as in Viola tri- 

 color, Linn. (Engler and Prantl) ; 

 Aut'oblast {$\ac-rhs,a, bud), a free and 

 independent " Bioblast " (Schlater) ; 

 AntoVolitei {$o\\s, a missile, -|- ite), 

 the products of division of the living 

 protoplasm (Beyerinck) ; Autocarp'- 

 iu8 + {Kapirhs, fruit), (1) a superior 

 fruit, not adherent to the pericarp ; 

 (2) see AuTOCARPY ; adj. autocarp'- 

 ian, autooarp'ic, autocarpia'nus ; 

 Autocarp'y, the fruiting of a self- 

 fertilized flower, the product of 

 autogamy; adj. autocarp'ous ; auto- 

 carpotrop'io ( + carpotropic). 



automatic separation of fruit ; Auto- 

 catarysis (4- Catalysis), self-fer- 

 mentation (Johannsen) ; adj. auto- 

 catalyt'ic ; Aut'ochore {x<^pf(», I 

 spread abroad), motile plants or 

 those with motile spores (Clements) ; 

 autochor'ic {x^p^s, separate), applied 

 to plants distributed by means of 

 their own movements (Kirchner) ; 

 Autocho'ry, the state itself. 

 Autoch'thon {avT6xSo}v, indigenous), 

 an aboriginal form ; a native plant, 

 not an introduction ; adj. autoch'- 

 thonal, autoch'thonous ; -^ The'ory, 

 the theory that each species origin- 

 ated where now found (L. H. Bailey). 

 Autodeple'tion {avrhs, self; depleo, I 

 empty out), self-digestion by the 

 enaosperm of grasses and palms. 

 Autodifferentia'tio {differencia, a differ- 

 ence), inherent power to vary. 

 Autodiges'tionidigestio, digestion), the 

 endosperm digestingreserve material; 

 autoe'cious {oJkos, a house), applied to 

 a parasite which runs its whole course 

 on a single host of a particular species ; 

 this state of things is Autoe'cism ; 

 Autoeu'forms {ed, well ; formis, 

 shape), Arthur's term for those species 

 of PxLCcinia which produce every 

 kind of spore on the same host ; 

 Autofecunda'tion ( -4- Fecundation), 

 self-fertilization ; autogam'ic, auto- 

 gamous, self- fertilized ; autog'amous 

 (yei/uoj, marriage), self-fertilization ; 

 Autog'amy, (1) when a flower is fer- 

 tilized by its own pollen ; (2) self- 

 fertilization by a single cell = AUTO- 

 Mixis ; Autogen'esis [yh^ais, begin- 

 ning), a synonym of Spontaneous 

 Generation ; autogenet'io, self-de- 

 rived ; '-Fertiliza'tion=self-pollina- 

 tion ; autogen'ic [ytvos, race, de- 

 scent), self- derived ; autog'enous 

 {y4vos, race), self-derived, used of 

 diseases, etc., which have their origin 

 within the oiganis:m ; autog'enus, 

 term proposed in place of monotypic, 

 to show that the genus contains but 

 a single species (Crozier). 

 autoi^cous, used for Bryophytes, when 

 the"" male and female inflorescences 

 are on the same plant ; the follow- 



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