Androgametanginm 



anemophiloni 



a vessel), = Antheridium, the organ 

 in which the male sexual cells are 

 formed ; Androgam'etes, zoosperms, 

 male sexual cells ; Androgam'eto- 

 phore {(popds, carrying), male sexual 

 form of a plant, as in Equisetum ; 

 Androg'amy {yoi/j.os, marriage), em- 

 ployed by Dangeard for the im- 

 pregnation of a male gamete by a 

 female ; it may be, {a) cyto- 

 plas'mic ■-', the cytoplasm of the 

 female gamete acting, or (6) nu'clear 

 '~, when the nucleus of the female 

 effects the impregnation ; Androgen'- 

 esis {yfveais, beginning), the growth 

 of an individual from a male cell ; 

 cf. Parthenogenesis ; androg'- 

 enous (yeyos, offspring), male-bear- 

 ing ; — Castra'tion, the action of 

 Ustilago antherarum, DC, when in- 

 citing production of male organs ; 

 An'dxogone (y6i'os, off"spring), any 

 cell within an antheridium other 

 than the androcyte or androcyte- 

 mother-cell (Allen) ; Androgonid'- 

 ium (-f- Gonidium) = Andkospore; 

 androg'ynal, androg'ynoiis - nus 

 iyvv^, woman), (1) hennaphrodite, 

 having male and female flowers on 

 the same inflorescence, as in many 

 species of C'^rex ; ' (2) occasionally 

 used for monoecious ; androgyna'- 

 ris (Lat. ), of double flowers in wliich 

 both stamens and pistils have be- 

 come petal oid;androgyn'icu8t( Lat.), 

 belonging to, or of an hermaphrodite 

 flower ; androgyniflor'ust {fios, fivris, 

 a flower), a hybrid term for when the 

 head of a composite bears hermaph- 

 rodite flowers ; Androg'ynism, a 

 change from dioecious to monoecious. 



Andromedotox'in, a ghicoside occur- 

 ring in Andromeda and other Erica- 

 ceae, 



andromonoe'cioxis (avr;p,dv8pi)s, a man ; 

 ti6vos, alone ; oIkos, house), hav- 

 ing perfect and male flowers, but 

 no female flowers; Andromonoec'ism, 

 the state described ; Andromorpho'- 

 sis {/x6p<pw<Tis, a change), the altera- 

 tions caused by the excitation of the 

 pollen tubes (Schroter) ; andropet'- 

 alout, andrupdala'riuH {ir(Ta\ov, a 



flower leaf), flowers double, the 

 stamens petaloid, the pistils un- 

 changed ; An'drophore, Andro- 

 ph'orum {<pop6s, carrying), (1) a sup- 

 port of a column of stamens, as in 

 Malvaceae ; (2) a stalk supporting an 

 androecium ; An'dropbyll {<f>v\\oi-, 

 a leaf), a male sporophyll, a stamen ; 

 An'drophyte {(pvrhu, a plant), a male 

 plant in the sexual generation. 



Androsac'ile (+ile), a "Society" of 

 Androsace (Clements). 



Androsporan'gium {av^p, avSphs, a 

 man, airopa, a seed ; ayy^loVf a 

 vessel) ; a microsporangium, a spor- 

 angium containing An'drospores, 



(1) swarmspores of Oedogoniae, 

 which give rise to Dwarf-males 

 destined to produce spermatozoids, 



(2) (A. W. Bennett) = Microspoke ; 

 an'drouB, staminate, male. 



Anelectrot'onus {b.va, up ; fjXcKrpov, 

 amber ; r6uos, stress), the diminished 

 excitation produced on the vital 

 movements of plants by a constant 

 current of electricity from the anode. 



An'emad {&yefios, wind, 4- ad), a 

 "blow-out" plant; Anemi'um ( + 

 ium), a "blow-out" formation ; Ane- 

 mo'chore {x<^p^<^^ I spread abroad), 

 a pknt distributed by wind 

 (Clements) ; Anemocho'ry, anemo- 

 chor'ous (xwpls, asunder), applied 

 by Sernander to plants which 

 retain their seeds through the 

 winter, and then disseminate them 

 by the instrumentality of the 

 wind ; Ajiemodi'um, siiggested by 

 Clements for plants of "blow-outs," 

 hollows in dunes excavated by 

 wind ; ' anemodoph'ilas {<piKeo, I 

 love), plants dwelling in "blow- 

 outs " ; Anemodophy'ta (<t>vrhu, a 

 plant), "blow-out" plants; Ane- 

 moentomoph'ily, ( +Entomophily), 

 employed of a polymorphic species 

 which in some individuals is adapted 

 for Avind-fertilization, and in others 

 for insect- fertilization (Knuth). 



Anem'onin, an acrid substance from 

 several species of Anemone, Tourn. 



anemoph'ilous {&v€fxos, wind ; 0iAe«, I 

 love), api>lied to flowers which are 



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