miOBtemonous 



ttioiybdoS 



mioste'monous = meiostemonous. 



Mire, a north -country Avord for a 

 marsh or boggy place. 



Mischom'any {jxiaxos, a pedicel ; ^lavia, 

 madness), increase in the number 

 of pedicels, as in Rhus Cotinus, 

 Linn., Muscari comosum, Mill., 

 etc. 



Mist'oform {mistus, mixed ; -j- Form), 

 a hybrid or cross from forms which 

 themselves have varied from the 

 original ; Mistoproliform (proles, 

 offspring), fertile hybrids of Misto- 

 FORMS (Kuntze). 



mis'tus, mix'tus (Lat.), cross-bred. 



Mitochon'dria, pi. {jj-'nos, a thread or 

 web ; x'^^Spos, a grain) = Chro- 

 MiDiA ; Mitokinet'icism {Khrjais, 

 motion), kinesis Avhicli reveals itself 

 by a thread structure (Hartog), adj. 

 mitokinet'ic ; Mit'om, Flemming's 

 term for the network of threads of 

 protoplasm ; Mito'sis, Flemming's 

 term for nuclear division ; Karyo- 

 kincsis of Schleicher ; adj mito'sic, 

 mito'tic. 



Mi'tra {/j-irpa, a head-dress), (1) the 

 galea of a corolla ; (2) the thick 

 rounded pileus of some Fungi ; 

 mi'triform, mitriform'is {fm-ma, 

 shape), mitre-shaped ; ->' Calyp'tra, 

 one which is entire at the base 

 (W. J. Hooker). 



mixed {niixtus) For'est, one composed 

 of various kinds, growing inter- 

 mingled ; ^ Forma'tion, caused by 

 the intermingling of two or more 

 neighbouring formations (Clements) ; 

 '-' Inflores'cence, one in which 

 partial intlorescence devcloi* differ- 

 ently from the main axis, as centri- 

 fugal and centripetal together; -^ 

 Ves'sels, those having thickenings 

 of more than one description, as 

 annular and spiral (Crozier), 



Mix'ie {^Jl■^ls, a mingling), ]\Iaire's 

 term for tlie fusion of two similar 

 nuclei ; the product lie terms 

 Mix'ote; Mixochimae'ra (H-Ciii- 

 MAEJiA, a monster), the artilicial 

 mingling of spore material, })ro- 

 ducing {•\-) ( — )and neutral mycelia 

 (Blakeslee) ; Mix'otroph {rpo<f>^, 



food), applied to any plant whose in- 

 sufficient chlorophyll contents does 

 not > ensure a proper assimilation 

 (Pfeff'er) ; Mix'tae, applied to homo- 

 sporous Ferns producing sporangia 

 in succession in time but not in space 

 (Bower) ; mixotropli'ic, half-sapro- 

 phytic (Pfeffer) ; mixtiner'vius J 

 (Lat.), having veins of various sizes. 



Mne'mon {/xv^fxccu, unforgetting), 

 Coutagne's term for the elemen- 

 tary factors of heredity. 



mni'oid, (1) resembling the Moss 

 genus Mnium ; (2) used by E. New- 

 man as resembling any kind of 

 Moss. 



mo'bile, ino'bilis (Lat.), (1) easily 

 moved, movable or versatile ; (2) 

 " modified for migration "(Clements); 

 (3) as moving sands ; Mobilideser'ta, 

 pi. (-[- Desert), include a variety of 

 plant communities on unstable sub- 

 stratum, as of shifting sand-dunes 

 and screes; Mobil'ity, power of 

 movement ; cf. Motility. 



Mock-plums, abnormal growths known 

 also as Bag-plums. 



Modiflca'tion Forms, inconstant varia- 

 tions due to alteration in external 

 conditions (Hedlund). 



modioliform'is {modiolus, a small 

 measure, nave of a wheel, etc. ; 

 forma, shape), like the naA^e of a 

 Avheel, depressed, with narrow 

 orifice, as the ripe fruit of Ganl- 

 theria. 



Mod'ulus (Lat., a measure) of elasticity 

 =» Elastic Limit. 



Moreoule {mohcibla, a small mass), 

 an aggregation of atoms, hence the 

 ultimate particle of a chemical 

 compound ; cf. Pleon, JIicella ; 

 adj. molec'ular. 



molendina'ceous, -ecus, -a'ris (Lat., 

 pertaining to a mill), furnished 

 with large, wing-like expansions. 



Moliue'tum, a plant association com- 

 posed of MdJiiila caeruJca, Moencii 

 ( Warming). 



moriis (Lat.), soft; usually meaning 

 pubescent 



molyb'deus, molyb'dos (^uc^AuySSos, lead), 

 lead-coloured ; sad, neutral grey. 



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