alpine 



Amalthea 



'-'Kegions, defined thus by Schim- 

 per : ba'sal -^ , liygrophilous warmth- 

 loving plants of the foothills ; 

 mon'taae^', the same as the last, 

 but able to endure cooler tempera- 

 ture ; alp'ine--', restricted to actual 

 alpine plants. 



Al'sad {&\<Tos, a grove, + ad), a grove 

 plant ; Alsi'um, a grove formation ; 

 alsoph'ilus {(piXfo, I love), gi-ove- 

 loving plants ; Alsophy'ta {<pirrhv, 

 a plant), grove plants (Clements) ; 

 alsoc''olus (Clements) = alsoc'ola, 

 dwelling in groves. 



alBina'ceous {Alsine, Tourn., 4-cEous), 



(1) used of a petal having a short, 

 but distinct claw ; (2) belonging to, 

 or resembling the group of plants 

 of which Alsine is the typical genus. 



altema'rioid {Mos, likeness), resem- 

 bling the genus AUemaria; Al- 

 tema'riose, a disease caused by the 

 same fungus genus. 



alter'nate, alter'nus ; alterna'tus, 

 alter' nans, (1) placed on opposite 

 sides of the stem on a different line ; 



(2) when between other bodies of 

 the same or different whorls, as in 

 Umbelliferae, where the stamens are 

 alternate with the petals, that is, 

 between them ; Altema'tion, Alter- 

 nation (1) interchange, by turns ; (2) 

 the heterogeneous arrangement of 

 plant groups and formations (Cle- 

 ments) ; -^ of Genera'tions the re- 

 production by organisms which do 

 not precisely resemble the parent, 

 but the grand-parent, applied espe- 

 cially to the regular succession of 

 sexual and asexual phases, as in 

 Ferns, etc. 



alter'native, alternati'vus, in aestiva- 

 tion when the perianth segments are 

 in two rows, and the inner so covered 

 b}' the outer, that each exterioi 

 member overlaps the half of two 

 interior members. 



altemipet'alous {alternusy every other ; 

 •KfraKov, a flower leaf), applied to 

 stamens alternating with the petals ; 

 alternisep'alous ( + Skpalum), used 

 of petals alternating with the sepals. 

 alternipin'nate, or altem'ately-pin' 



nate, when the leaflets of a pinnate 

 leaf are not exactly opposite each 

 other. 



Artheine, a principle from the marsh- 

 mallow, Altha,ea, Tourn,, analogous 

 to Asparagin. 



Alt'itude, Altitu'do (Lat., height), used 

 to specify the height above the sea 

 of the vegetation in question. 



Altolierbipra'ta, pi. {alius, high ; hfrha, 

 a plant ; pratum, a meadow), a divi- 

 sion of Terriprata characterised 

 by the dominance of tall-growing 

 herbs. 



Alu'mina Bod''ies, substances found 

 in the mesophyll and cortex of 

 Symplocos (Radlkofer). 



aluta'ceovB, aluta'cetcs {aluta, soft 

 leather + CEOUs), (1) the colour of 

 buff leather, or light tan ; (2) 

 leathery in texture, coriaceous. 



Al'var, applied to peculiar dwarfed 

 growth, resembling steppe vegeta- 

 tion, in Uland, etc. (Sernander). 



Alve'ola {alveolus, a hollow vessel), 

 pi. Alveolae ; (1) cavities on the sur- 

 face, as the pits on the receptacle of 

 many Compositae, honeycombed ; 

 (2) the pores of such Fungi as 

 Polyporus ; (3) the perithecia of 

 certain other Fungi ; adj. arveolar ; 

 -' Theory, applied to Biitschli's 

 theory of protoplasm as a foam-like 

 substance ; Alveolarplas^ma (irXd<r/ito, 

 modelled), term used by Strasburger 

 in place of Troi'HOPLAsm, gianular 

 protoplasm ; al'veolate, alveola'tus, 

 alveola'ris, marked as tnough 

 honeycombed ; Alve'oli, the pit-like 

 markings on the valves of many 

 Diatomaceae ; Alveoliza'tion, the 

 process of becoming granular or 

 honeycombed ; alve'olized, the pro- 

 cess named. 



Amadou^ (l^'r. ), (1) the substance of 

 certain Fungi used as tinder, as 

 Polyporus fo7nenlarms, Fr. ; (2) as 

 a styptic when from the pubescence 

 of the Phanerogam Melastoma hirta, 

 Linn. 



Amalthe'a X {H/xa, together ; a\d(w, I 

 increase), used by Desvaux for an 

 aggregation of dry fruits within 



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