effete 



Elater 



effete', ej[e'tus, effoe'tus (Lat. , exliaus- 

 ted), past bearing, functionless from 



age. 



ef£i.^'viX?LiQ,effigura'tus (figura, a fignro). 

 (1) when an prgan is completed l»y 

 the full development of its subordi- 

 nate parts ; (2) of definite outline, 

 opposed to EFFUSE ; Effigura'tiona, 

 outgrowths of the receptacle or 

 torus, as in Passijivra, Capparis, etc. 



Ifflores'ence, Fjflorescen'lia [etflorcsco, 

 I blossom forth), the season of 

 flowering, anthesis. 



Effolia'tion -(Lindley) = Exfoltatiox. 



effuse, effu'sus (Lat., poured out), 

 patulous, expanded ; Effu'sio, an ex- 

 pansion ; Effu'sion, used by Wiesner 

 for an intermingling of gases under 

 different pressures, the current acting 

 through openings in membranes. 



eflagellif'erous {e, priv. + Flagel- 

 LUM, fero, I bear), destitute of fla- 

 gella ; efo'liolate, rfoliola'tus [folio- 

 luvi, a small leaf), without leaf-like 

 scales or squamre ; efo'iiolose has 

 the same meaning ; efov'eolate 

 [fovea, a pit), "smooth, without 

 ]tit8 or dejnessions " (Heinig) ; — the 

 form " eforeolate " is a press error ; 

 eful'crate, efulcra'tus [fulcrum, a 

 bed-postj, ust'd of buds from which 

 the customary leaf or bract lias fallen. 



^g? (1), Ovum, ovule ; (2) restricted 

 in meaning as below ; - Appara'tus, 

 the three cells with nuclei at the 

 micropylar end of the emliryo sac, 

 two form the synergidit}, and the 

 other forms the ousphere ; ~ Cell, the 

 oosphere or gynogamete ; ~ -sac, 

 the mesochite and endocliite of 

 Fucaceae, the membranes which en- 

 close the egg ( Farmer and Williams) ; 

 ~ -shaped, = ovate ; ~ Spore = 

 Oospore. 

 eglandu'lose, ajJnadulo'sus [r, priv., 

 gJandula, a gland), destitute of 

 glands ; egran'ulose {granuJa, a 

 small grain), without granules. 

 E'gret, ^fartyn's term for pappus ; 



Fr. Aigrette. 

 ehila'tus J {e, priv.; -f- Hilum), imper- 

 forate, applied to pollen grains 

 having no perforations. 



eis'odal, eiso'dial [("((xoSos, an entry), 

 anterior, as the outer pore -^f 

 stomates (Tschirch). 



Ejacula'tion {ejaculor, I shoot forth) 

 = Kjection. 



Ejec'tion [cjech'o, a casting forth), 

 for<;i])ly throwing out endogen- 

 ously formed spores from a spor- 



angium. 



Elabora'tion [rJahoratio, persevering 

 labour), used of tlie changes which 

 tiike place after the absorption of 

 food material to fit it for the use of 

 the plant. 



elaeo'des {i\aia, olive), olive colour, 

 brownish green ; Elaioleu'cites 

 [\fvKhs, white), Van Tieghem's term 

 for Elaioplasts ; Elaioplank'ton 

 (+ Plankton), plankton floating 

 by means of fatty matters (Forel) ; 

 Elai'oplapts [irKacTThs, moulded), 



(1) })lastid8 which are believed to 

 form oil, as leuco})lasts form starch ; 



(2) oil-drops, usually applied to the 

 chromatophores in Diaton)s, some- 

 times free ; the^' are particularized 

 as Libkoplasts, Placuplasts, and 

 Spausioplasts (Mereschkowsky) ; 

 Elai'osomes, pi. [(rwfjia, a body), 

 characteristic oily appendages and 

 seeds of myrmecochorous plants, 

 such as arils, crests, etc., offering 

 food-bodies to ants (Sernander) ; 

 Elai'ospheres {cr<pa7pa, a sphere), 

 bodies in spongy and palisade paren- 

 chymi, similar to elaioplasts, pro- 

 bably oilrbodies (Lidforss). The 

 foregoing are also spelled elaeo-. 



elaphi'nes {f\a(piv^s, a fawn) ; eia- 

 phi'iivs [i\a<phs, a deer), tawny or 

 fulvous. 



Ela$'tic Lim'it, the extreme load which 

 a vegetable fibre or body can sup- 

 port, without being permanently 

 stretched (Haberlandt). 



Ela'ter [iKar^p, a driver), (1) an 

 elastic spirally twisted filament, 

 occurring amongst the spoics in the 

 ihecfe of Hepatict^i ; (2) a free capil 

 litium thread in Myxogastres; (3) 

 in EquiHctum, four clubbed hygro- 

 scopic bands attached to the spores, 

 which serve for dispersal. 



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