astipulatt 



Atomogynia 



sperms; astip'ulate (a, without, + 

 Stipula) =exstipulate ; astoin'- 

 atal (+ Stoma), wanting storaatu ; 

 ast'omons, ast'omus {ffrSfia, mouth), 

 not having an orifice. 



astrag'aloid {acrTpdyaXos, a knuckle- 

 bone; eUos, resemblance), (1) dice 

 shaped (Heinig) ; (2) having affinity 

 with the genus Astragahis. 



as'tral (+ Aster), relating to the 

 Aster in cytology. 



Astrocen'ters {k(rr)]py a star ; Kevrpov, 

 point, centre), C, MacMillan's term 

 for the bodies variously known as At- 

 traction-spheres, Directive-spheres, 

 Tinoleucites, etc. ; Astroscle'reids 

 {(TKKijphs, hard), thick-walled star- 

 shaped cells occurring in the leaves 

 of Camellia, and frequently in bark 

 amongst the surrounding parenchym- 

 atous cells (Tschinih); Ast'rosplieres 

 {a<l>aipa, a sphere), Strasburger's term 



for ASTROCENTERS. 



As'trophe, or As'trophy (o, not ; o-rpo^Tj, 

 a turning), negative Epistrophe 

 (S. Moore) ; Asymblas'ty (a, not ; 

 orvv, with ; &\a<rThs, shoot), the 

 various periods of germination of the 

 seeds of the same plant (Haberlandt) ; 

 asymmet'ric, asymmefrical ((rJ^ujue^ 

 rpos, symmetric), (1) irregular in 

 outline or shape ; (2) used of a flower 

 which cannot be divided in any ver- 

 tical plane into two similar halves ; 

 (3) dissimilarity of the number of tlie 

 members in calyx, corolla or genitalia; 

 Asym'metry (-fSYMMETRY), term ex- 

 tended by Goebel to express the 

 dissimilarity of lateral halves and 

 leaflets, irrespective of the entire 

 leaf; asyngam'ic {yd/xos, marriage), 

 used of plants prevented from inter- 

 crossing by their flowering at dif- 

 ferent times ; Asyn'gamy {ydixos, 

 marriage), the natural prevention of 

 cross-pollination by the respective 

 plants or species flowering at ditter- 

 ent times (Kerner) ; asynthet'ic 

 {(TvvOeros, compounded) Oonid'ia, 

 free Lichen gouidia, occurring on the 

 outside of the thallus (Koerber). 



atactodes'mic {AraKTos, out of order ; 

 Sifffxi], bundle), applied to the vas- 



cular system of Monocotyledons 

 (Brebner) ; Atact'ostele (-f Stele), 

 Hrebner's term for the monostele of 

 Monocotyledons, having scattered 

 vascular bundles imbedded in con- 

 junctive ground-tissue ; also in Dico- 

 tyledons when the meristeles are not 

 in a single ring; adj. atactoste'lic ; 

 Atactoste'ly, the condition described. 



At'avism {atavus, an ancestor), ances- 

 tral resemblance, reversion to an 

 older type ; At'avist, applied to a 

 plant showing that tendency ; ata- 

 vist'ic, reverting to an older type of 

 structure. 



ataxinom'ic (a, not ; rd^is, order ; vS/jios 

 law), used for teratologic, abnormal 

 structures not represented amon^ 

 plants in a normal condition, as 

 Fasciation, Chloranthy, etc. 



ataxonom'ic (o, not, -f taxonomic), 

 any part of botany which is 

 not concerned with systematic 

 work. 



ateg'minous, (a, without ; tegmen, 

 covering), used of naked ovules 

 (Goeliel) ; Ateg'miny, is the state. 



a'ter (Lat. ), i)ure, lustreless black ; in 

 composition, atro-. 



atharamous (a, without ; 0Ji\afxos, 

 bride-chamber), said of Lichens 

 witliout apothccia on their thallus. 



athairine (a, witliout ; daWhs, young 

 shoot)', without thallus. 



Ath'era, {adi]p, -fpos, beard of corn), 

 in Greek compounds =awn or stilf 

 bristle. 



Atlant'ic Type of Distribution, IL C. 

 Watson's term for Ikitish plants 

 which occur most frequently towards 

 the west of Great Britain. 



At'mograph (or^bs, vapour ; ypa(pu, I 

 write), an instrument for meaain-ing 

 the amount of water evaporated. 



At'om (a, not ; t4iivw, 1 cut), defined by 

 Nageli as the ultimate particle of a 

 chemical element ; in botanic par- 

 lance it means the smallest divisible 

 portion of any substance. 



at'omate (-+-AroM), "sprinkled with 

 atoms " (Stevenson). 



Atomogyn'ia {arofihs, cannot be cut ; 

 yvv^, woman), the elder Richard's 



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