allagophyllous 



alpine 



0WAA.OV, a leaf), alternate-leaved ; 

 allagoste'mon, allagostern'onons, 

 when stamens are attached alter- 

 nately to the petals and the torus. 

 allanto'dioid, applied to ferns which 

 resemble the genus Allantodia, R. 

 Br., in habit or fructification. 

 allant'oid {ahhas, a sausage ; elZoSf 

 form), sausage-shaped ; AUanto- 

 spor'ae ( + Spora), 'J'ra verso's term 

 for cylindrical •s[>ores somewhat 

 lunate. 

 allassoton'ic (dWactrw, I vary ; t6vos, 

 turgescence), movements of mature 

 organs, caused by augmentation of 

 turgor with diminution of volume. 

 Allautogam'ia {&XKos, other ; avrhs, 

 self; ydfjLOs, marriage), unusual 

 method of pollination (Clements). 

 Alleeog'amy = Allog'amy. 

 AUe lomorph (dw^Aws, mutually ; 

 lxop(p^, shape), applied to "unit- 

 characters existing in antagonistic 

 pairs" (Bateson) ; c/. Hypallelo- 

 MORPH ; adj. allelomor''piiic ; AUe- 

 lomor'phism, the condition in 

 question ; AUelosif'isiu (o-Itos, food), 

 Norman's term for Syntjiophy ; 

 All'esy or AUe'sis, employed by 

 Massart for the power of an organ 

 to show interference. 

 allia'ceous, -cens {allium, garlic, 4- 

 ACEU.s), having the smell of garlic 

 or onions ; allia'rius (Lat. ) is a 

 synonym. 

 Alli'ance, a group of Families now 



usually styled Cohort. 

 Alliga'tor [alligo, I bind) = Fulcrum. 

 Aliochlor'opliyll {hXKos, another, -f 

 Chlorophyll), a second green sub- 

 stance accompanying chlorophyll 

 (Schunck and Marchlewski) ; allo- 

 ch'rous (xp<^«j complexion), changing 

 from one colour to another ; Allo- 

 car'py («opiri>s, fniit), fruiting from 

 cross-fertilized flowers ; Allog'amy 

 (7ajuos, marriage), cross- fertilization : 

 sub-divided into GEiTONOc;AMY,from 

 another flower on the same plant, 

 and Xenogamy, from another plant 

 of the same species ; adj. allog'am- 

 0T18 ; AU'ogene {yeuos, descent), the 

 recessive element of a couplet or 



pair of Allelomorphs ; cf. Proto- 

 GENE (Pearson) ; AUomet'ron {fierpov, 

 a measure), a quantitative change, 

 the genesis of new proportions in 

 an existing character (H. F. Osborn). 

 Alloorysis {aWoios, ditferent ; \vcris, 

 loosing), applied to the mode in 

 which natural diastase acts on the 

 endosperm of the date, and the 

 changes thereby caused. 

 Ariosperm {aWos, another ; arirep/xa, a 

 seed), an embryo arising through 

 Allogamy (MacMillan) ; Al'lospore 

 (+ Spora), a spore which gives rise 

 ultimately to a gametophyte (Radl- 

 kofer) ; Allot'ropliy (rpo^rj, nourish- 

 ment), (1) when plants are not in a 

 condition to assimilate CO2 (Pfeffer) ; 

 (2) tlie condition of flowers of low 

 adaptation to insect- visitors (Loew) ; 

 allot'ropous {rpoir^, a turn), Mac- 

 Leod's term for plants having stores 

 of honey open to all insect-visitors ; 

 Allot'ropy, otherwise turned or 

 formed ; adj. allotrop'ic ; allotyp'ic, 

 proposed by Strasburgcr in place of 

 atypic mitosis ; heterotypic followed 

 by homotypic nuclear division : 

 Allozy'gote ( + Zygote), a homo- 

 zygote displaying recessive characters 

 exclusively (K. Pearson). 



Alla'ring Glands of Nepenthes, glands 

 in the pitchers which tempt insects 

 down the tube (Macfarlane). 



Alne'tum, an association of alder 

 plants, Alnus. 



alpes'trine, alpes'tris, strictly appli- 

 cable to plants gi'owing above the 

 limit of forest growth, on the Alps, 

 but practically synonymous with 

 Alpine ; alpes'ter (Lat.) is used by 

 some botanists for the more usual 

 form. 



alphitomor'phous {&Ki^irov, pearl 

 barley ; f^op<p^, form), like barley- 

 meal ; applied to certain fungi. 



alplgene [alpig'eiia, bred in the Alps) 

 = Alpine. 



alp'ine, alpi'nus, properly denoting 

 plants belonging to the Alps {alpes, 

 mountains), but frequently used in 

 a wider sense, embracing alpestriue, 

 as well as the higher situated plants ; 



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