Alpino- arctic 



Androphile 



Alpi'no-arc'tic Forma'tion = An- 



THELIETUM. 



Alterna'tion, applied by Clements to 

 a mixed succession ; Alter'nes, two 

 alternations of dominancy over 

 the same area (Clements). 

 Al'var, term to denote dwarf growth 

 of perennial shrubs in parts of 

 Sweden (Warming). 

 Alve'olar Spheres, pi. certain bodies 

 in the cytoplasm of the micro- 

 sporangia of Cwpresaus Linn, which 

 do not take stain (Nichols) : 

 Alveola'tion The'ory, chromosomes 

 in telophase becoming honey- 

 combed with numerous vacuoles ; 

 Arveoles, pi. vacuoles which split 

 chromosomes into network of chro- 

 matin (Gregoire). 

 Amae'bola pi. -ae, a swarm-spore 

 which creeps like an Amaeba 

 (Minchin). 

 amara'lioid, like the genus Amaralia 



Benth. and Hook. f. 

 amathic'olous {afj-ados, sandy soil ; 

 colo, I dwell), growing in sandy 

 plains, 

 ambilat'eral {ambo, both ; lateralis, 

 pertaining to the side) ; -^ Segre- 

 ga'tion, unrestricted to either sex 

 (Bateson) ; cf. unilateral. 

 Amblystegie'tum, an association 

 formed of the moss Amblystegium 

 Bruch et Schimp. 

 Amen'ta, pi. add (2) employed by 



Parlatore for male flowers. 

 AmmophUe'tam, an association of 



dune-grass, Ammophila Host. 

 amnic'olous {amnis, river ; colo, I 

 dwell), growing on the sandy 

 banks of rivers. 

 Amphich'romy {xpcofia, colour), a 

 plant displaying two distinct colours 

 when in flower (Lindman) ; Am- 

 phicli'nons {kXIvt), a bed) Hy'brids, 

 when in Fj hybrid progeny, some 

 resemble one parent, the remainder 

 the other (De Vries) ; Amphicrypt'- 

 ophytes, helophytes having their 

 vegetative organs amphibious 

 (Gams); Amphig'onel (-f Gonel), 

 the reproductive apparatus having 

 poly centric axes (VuiUemin) j am- 



419 



phigy'nons (yunf, woman), when 

 the oogonium of Phytophthora 

 De Bary projects from the top of 

 the antheridium, the male surround- 

 ing the female element (Murphy) ; 

 Amphilep'sis, add (2) when in 

 hybrids the influence of both 

 parents is shown (Bateson) ; cf. 

 MoNOLEPSis; Amphine'reids (-{- 

 Nereid), amphibious plants; Am- 

 ph'iphytes, pi. {<f>vTov, a plant), 

 Gadeceau's term for the same as 

 the last : Amph'itene (Taivi'a, a 

 ribbon), the early stage of synapsis 

 (H. J. Miiller); amphitrich'ous 

 {dpL$, Tpixos, the hair), having a 

 flagellum at each pole as of a 

 flagellate ; Amphitrisyncot'yl, 



Bexon's term for a tricotyledonary 

 seedling with special development ; 

 Amphitact'ism (ra/frds", arranged), 

 the mutual attraction of several 

 hyphae for each other, as in Mucor 

 Linn. ; zygotactism. 



Amy'loplasts (TrAaa/xa, that formed), 

 the colourless starch-forming plas- 

 tids of plant cells (Errera) ; Amylo- 

 stat'oliths pi. (-(-Statoliths), 

 starch-grains simple or com- 

 pound. 



Anabase'tum, an association of Ana* 

 basis Linn. 



Anaphylax'is {dvd, up; (f>vXa^, cau- 

 tion), sensitive condition from use 

 of antitoxin serum (Conn) ; ana- 

 poret'ic {rropevros, going), Martius's 

 term for botanic skill in the closet, 

 as opposed to peripatetic ; An- 

 arhi'zophyte (pV|a, a root, (fyvrov, a 

 plant), a plant able to root in soil 

 which covers its original snot, as 

 Suaeda Moq. (F. W. Oliver); 

 anarthrodacty'Ious [dpOpov, a joint, 

 -f- Dactyl), with ultimate rays 

 each of a single cell, in Characeae ; 

 anatropist'ic = anatropous. 



Androe'cy {oIkos, a house), occurrence 

 of purely male individuals in a 

 species (Uexkiill) ; Androgyno- 

 cladogonid'ium, an hermaphrodite 

 merid (Janet). Androgy'ny, the 

 monoecious or androgynal state. 

 And'rophile {(fnXdco, I love), a plant 



