Albuminates 



allagophyllons 



wheat ; Albu'minoids {^Uos, resem- 

 blance), nitrogenous organic sub- 

 stances, proteids ; albu^minose, 

 albn'minous, albumino'sus, contain- 

 ing albumen, a term restricted to 

 seeds ; Albumo'ses, similar to albu- 

 minates, but soluble in ■water ; 

 common constituents of aleuron. 



Albur'nitas {alburnum, sap-wood), a 

 disease in trees, a tendency to 

 remain soft like the recent wood ; 

 albur'nous, relating to the sap- 

 wood ; Albur'num, the outermost 

 and youngest portion of the wood, 

 still permeable by fluids. 



al'bus (Lat.), dead white, without 

 lustre. 



Alcaliot'rop'sm (alkali, Fr. ; rpoir^, a 

 turning), chemotropism induced by 

 alkalies (Massart). 



Alchemille'tum, an association of 

 Alchemilla plants. 



Alcohorase, the same enzyme as 

 Zymase. 



alcohortc Fermenta'tion, see Fehmen- 



TATION. 



Al'der-Will'ow association, a wood 

 usually showing a dominance of 

 alder, with a mixture of willows, 

 and sometimes of ash and oak. 



alector'ioid {Alectoria, Ach., elSos, 

 resemblance), filamentous, as the 

 thailus of the genus after which it 

 is named. 



alepido'tus, I (o, not; heiriSurhs, scaly), 

 destitute of scurf or scales. 



Ale'tophytes {akijTns, vagrant ; <pirov, 

 a plant), ruderal or wayside plants 

 (Clements). 



Aleu'ron, or Aleu'rone (sfXeupov, wheaten 

 flour), ja-oteid granules of globulins 

 and peptones, present in seeds, 

 ~ Lay'er, a special peripheric layer 

 in most seeds, especially in grasses ; 

 adj., aleuron'ic. 



Alex'ine (dAe|w, I ward off), a sub- 

 stance hypothetically assumed to 

 be formed by plants for protection 

 against bacteria ; antitoxine. 



AVgB,e (alga, seaweed), c'hloro[)hyll- 

 containing Thallophytes, which usu- 

 ally grow immersed in water, fresh 

 or marine ; known popularly as 



" Seaweeds," or " Waterweeds " ; 

 al'gal, relating to Algae ; — Layer, 

 the green band of gonidia in the 

 thailus of heteromerous lichens, also 

 styled <-' -Zone ; aigi'nus J resem- 

 bling a thread like Alga ; Al'^t 

 = Algorogist, a student of Algae ; 

 al'goid (eUos, resemblance), like an 

 Alga ; Argo-li'chenes, Lindsay's 

 term for certain transitional forms 

 between Algae and Lichens ; argons 

 = ALOAL ; Algol'ogy, {\6yos, dis- 

 course), the science of Algae ; Algs, 

 F. von Mueller's word for Algae. 



A'lien, used by H. C. Watson for 

 introduced" plants which have be- 

 come naturalised in Britain. 



alif' erous {ala, a wing ; fero, I bear), 

 having wings ; ariform (fo-nna, 

 shape), mng-shaped ; alig'erons 

 igero, I bear) = aliferous (Crozier). 



alig'ular {a, from ; ligula, strap), 

 Russow's term for that leaf- face in 

 Selaginella which is turned away 

 from the ligule and stem. 



Alimo'nia % (Lat., nourishment) = 

 ascending sap. 



Ariquote {aliquot, some, in numbers), 

 the constant of temj»eratures for a 

 given event in the life-cycle of an 

 organism ; the sum- temperature of 

 the event divided by the total sum- 

 temperature of the year (Linsser). 



-alis, Latin termination indicative of 

 belonging to ; thus radic-alis, be- 

 longing to the root, radix. 



alisma'ceous {Alisma,'D\\\., -j-cEOUs), 

 belonging to the order Alismaceae, 

 of which the genus named is the 

 type. 



Aliz'arine (Fr., Alizari, madder-root), 

 the colouring matter of the root of 

 madder, Rubia tinctoria, Linn. 



Alkachlor'ophyll (Alkali + Chloro- 

 phyll), a presumed constituent of 

 chlorophyll, produced by the action 

 of an alkali ; alkales'oent, of the 

 nature of an alkali ; Alk'aloids 

 {elSos, resemblance), general term 

 for the organic bases in many plants, 

 markedly medicinal or poisonous, a.s 

 Morphia, Strychnia. 



allagopbyirons (iAAay^, a change ; 



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