Tegmenta 



Tentaenloid 



folia'cea, fulera'cea, petioWcea, 

 stipula'cea, modifications of leaves, 

 stipules and petioles, petioles and 

 stipules only (Lindley) ; tegmina'- 

 tus (Lat.), when the nucellus is 

 invested by a covering. 



tegument'ary {tegumen, a cover), re- 

 lating t^ some covering ; Tegu- 

 men'tum, (1) the indusium of a 

 Fern ; (2) the spermoderm. 



Teich'osome (Telxoy, a wall; awfia, a 

 body), droplets or spherules com- 

 posing the cell- wall (Gardiner). 



Tek'nospore {rfKv6o», I bear children, 

 -|- Spore), a spore produced dii-ectly 

 from male or female organs of Equi- 

 setaceae and many Ferns ( Radlkofer). 



Te'la (Lat., a web), elementary tissue, 

 as meristem ; ~ contex'ta, a weft 

 of distinct hyphae, felted tissue ; 

 Ger. "Filzgewebe." 



Teleb'olites (ttjAc, afar; iSoXh, a mis- 

 sile), the products of enzyme action 

 (Beyerinck) ; Teleomitp'sis (-f- Mi- 

 tosis) = Karyokinesis. 



teleian'thus (t? Xetoj, perfect ; i-vdos, a 

 flower), hermaphrodite. 



Teleorogy {t4\€os, gen. of r^Kos, com- 

 pletion ; \6yo5, discourse), the doc- 

 trine of final causes, or theory of 

 tendency to an end; adj. teleolog'ic ; 

 Teleomito'eis {fiiros, a thread), an 

 indirect division of the nucleus, when 

 the chromosomes divide to rejoin 

 the daughter-nuclei (Dangeard). 



Teleatoconidlum = Teleutogonidlam 

 (reAeuT^, an end, -f Gonidium) = 

 Teleutospork ; TeleutOBor'us {-\- 

 SoRUs), an aggregation of teleuto- 

 spores (Arthur and Holway) ; Tel- 

 ea'tospore (ciropi, a seed), a resting 

 bilocular spore of Uredineae, on 

 germination producing a promy- 

 celium ; telentospor'io, relating to a 

 Teleutospore ; teleutosporif erous 

 i/ero, I bear), producing teleuto- 

 spores' (Cooke). 



Teli'um {r4\o5, completion), Arthur's 

 term for Teleutosorus ; adj. tel'lal ; 

 Teriospores (-f Spore) = Teleuto- 

 spore. 



tellu'ric {tellus, the earth), applied to 

 ground water, as distinct from rain. 



Tel'matad {r4\(ia, a pool, -f ad), a 

 wet meadow plant (Clements) ; Tel- 

 mati'um, (1) Ganong's expression 

 for a wet marsh; (2) Clements 's 

 expression for a wet meadow forma- 

 tion ; Telmatorogy {)^6yos, dis- 

 course), account of the origin of 

 moors (Dorfler) ; telmatopli'ilas (i^«- 

 \4u), I love), dwelling in wet 

 meadows (Clements) ; Telmatophy'ta 

 {<pvThv^ a plant), wet meadow plants 

 (Clements). 



Telog'amae {r4\o5, an eiyl : 70^0*. 

 marriage), Ardissone's term for Flo- 

 rideae ; Telogonid'iom ( + Goni- 

 dium), a gonidium arising from 

 successive generations in the same 

 cell (A. Braun); Terophase (<^rf<riy, 

 an appearance), the last phase of 

 nuclear division ; adj. telopha'sio ; 

 Telosynap'sis ( + Synapsis, that 

 form of nuclear contraction in which 

 the chromosomes are paired end to 

 end ; adj. telosynap'tio. 



Tem'peratures, the sum of, used to 

 mark a given period in the life-cycle 

 of a plant. 



temulen'tous {temulentus, drunken), 

 nodding in a jerky irregular manner ; 

 cf. NUTANS (Heinig). 



Tem'ulin, an active principle occurring 

 in Lolium temulentum, Linn. 



Tena'onlnm, pi. Tena'cula (Lat., a 

 holder), haptei-a or holdfasts of 

 Algae; adj. tenac'alar. 



Ten'dril, a filiform production, cauline 

 or foliar, by which a plant may 

 secure itself in its position ; ten'dril- 

 lous, possessed of tendrils. 



Ten'sion {tensio, a stretching), due to 

 turgidity in cells, and manifested 

 by movements of parts; -^ Form, 

 Delpino's term for papilionaceous 

 flowers, with concealed anthers, such 

 as Genista and Ulex. 



Tent-pole, a raised central portion of 

 the apex of the prothallus (F. "W. 

 Oliver). 



Ten'tacle {tetitaculwn, Mod. Lat., a 

 feeler), a sensitive glandular hair, 

 as those on the leaf of Drosera ; 

 Tentac'uloid (elSoy, resemblance), 

 applied to long processes which 



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