Mummiflcation 



mycetogenons 



Mummifica'tion of fruits, \ised by 

 Tubeuf to express the fungal rest- 

 ing body or sclerotium. 



Mumo'nian {Momonia, or Mumonia), 

 relating to the province of Mnnster. 



mu'niens (Lat.), fortifying; munien'- 

 tia Fo'lia, protecting leaves which 

 overhang or otherwise guard parts 

 which need protection. 



mu'ral, mura'lis (Lat., pertaining to a 

 wall), growing on walls ; mura'rius 

 (Lat.) means the same ; mura'li- 

 divi'ded = mu'iuform. 



mu'ricate, murica'tiis (Lat., like 

 murcx), rough, with short and hard 

 tubercular excrescences; muric'ulate, 

 7nuricula'tus, diminutive of the 

 preceding. 



mu'riform, muriform'is {murus, a wall ; 

 forina, shape), (1) flattened cellular 

 tissue, with cells resembling bricks 

 in a wall ; (2) Koerber applies the 

 term to certain Lichen-spores. 



muri'nus (Lat., of mice), mouse- 

 coloured. 



Mu'sa-form, gigantic tropical herbs 

 with perennial, epigeous, evergi*een 

 stem of involute leaf-sheaths, such as 

 Micsa (Warming). 



Muscardino' (Fr,), a silkworm disease 

 caused by Botryirs Bassiana, Bals. 



mascar'ian {musca, a fly), Beccari's 

 term when flowers attract flies by a 

 putrid stench (Praeger). 



muscar^iform, muscariform'is {mus- 

 earinm, a fly-flap ; forma, shape), 

 (1) fly-brush shaped; (2) like the 

 genus Mascari as to habit or in- 

 florescence ; Mus'carine, a poisonous 

 .alkaloid from Amanita Muscaria, 

 P. Karst. ; Musca'rium (Lat.), a 

 loose and irregular corymb. 



Mus'ci, sing. Muscus (Lat.), Mosses; 

 nma'cifonn, musciform'is {forma, 

 shape). Moss- like in appearance ; 

 mus'cicole, nmscic'olons {cola, I 

 inhabit), growing on Mosses; mus'- 

 coid {fihos, like), resembling or 

 belonging to M oss ; Muscorogy 

 {\6yot, discourse), a hybrid term 

 for BiiYOLOGY ; an account of 

 Mosses. 



miisli''room-head'ed, a cylindric body 



topped by a convex head of larger 

 diameter ; fungifonn. 



mu'table, (1) = mutaiulis ; (2) able 

 to produce mutants (Clements) ; 

 muta'bilis (Lat.), changeable, either 

 in form or colour. 



Mnta'tion {mutatio, a changing), De 

 Vries's term for "species" derived 

 by progi'essive or sudden changes 

 in several generations of seedlings ; 

 ^ At'avism, a tendency to revert ; 

 degressive ■^ , when a change t^kes 

 place in the partial latency of a 

 character ; progress'ive ~ , when an 

 entiiely new character appears ; 

 retrogress'ive -^ , Avhen an active or 

 present character becomes latent; 

 Mu'tant, G. Henslow's name for a 

 "species" so raised. 



mu'ticons, mu'ticus (Lat., curtailed, 

 docked), pointless, blunt, awnless. 



Mu'tilate {mutilus, maimed) ; mu'tilus 

 (Lat., maimed), applied to a flower 

 nearly or wholly wanting the petals. 



Mn'tnalism (mutual -f ism), the same 

 as Commensalism ; that is, an asso- 

 ciation of two organisms which is 

 beneficial to both; also termed Mu'- 

 tual Par'asitism ; adj . mutualis'tic. 



Mycelconid'ium {fivKTjs, a mushroom ; 

 fiAos, excrescence ; -f Conidium), A. 

 Fischer's term for Stylospore; 

 Mycele' = Myce'lium ; myce'lial, 

 relating to a mycelium ; ~ Lay'er = 

 MEMBRANOUS Mycelium; --'Strand, 

 fibrous mycelium ; Uycelia'tion, 

 taking on the aspect or form of 

 Mycelium (A. S. Wilson) ; myce'- 

 lioid (elSos, resemblance), resembling 

 a mycelium (Archer) ; Mycelitha 

 {\ldos, a stone), an old terra for 

 ScLKiiOTiUM ; Myce'lium, tlie vege- 

 tative portion of the thallus of Fungi, 

 composed of hyphae (Trattinick) ; 

 filamen'tous '^ , the thread-like loose 

 felting of hyphae ; mexn'branous -^ , 

 the layer formed by the interweaving 

 of the hyphae ; myce'Ioid [eUos, like), 

 resembling a mycelimn ; mycetoge- 

 nefic (yeveTrji, a parent), producing 

 Fungi ; -^ Metamorph'osis, de- 

 formation of parts by Fungi ; myce- 

 tog'enous {yeuos,, race, off"spring), 



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