Antospore 



Biosphere 



Aut'ospore (+ Spore), (1) proto- 

 plast division into spore-like bodies 

 usually assuming the character of 

 mother-cells before being liberated 

 (West) ; (2), in lichens, daughter- 

 gonidia (Paulson) ; autotroph'ic, 

 applied to those bacteria which 

 act directly upon mineral matter 

 (Conn). 



Antop'ta [avTovT]?, an eye-witness), 

 used by Linne and Jacquin for an 

 observer who makes an autopsy. 



Aux'imones, pi. {av^ifxos, promoting 

 growth), plant-food accessories, 

 essential to growth, only differing 

 from vitamines in withstanding 

 160 C, while the latter are largely 

 destroyed by boiling (Bottomley); 

 adj. auximon'ic. 



Avicennie'tum, a mangrove associa- 

 tion. 



Ax'ial Ar'ea, a hyaline area sometimes 

 occurring on diatom valves on 

 each side of the raphe (West) ; 

 axill'ary shoot, ~ Strand, a bundle 

 in Zygopteris Corda, the state of 

 the main stem (Scott). 



Azoospor'ia (a, = not, icoov, an 

 animal), motionless reproductive 

 cells in certain fresh-water algae. 



Azy'gospore (+ Spore) = Partheno- 

 spore. 



Back-cross, a hybrid of reversed 

 parentage, the male and female 

 parents being interchanged. 



Bacte'riad, Hillhouse's term for any 

 bacterium ; bacte'rial, pertaining 

 to bacteria. 



Baha'da (Span, descent), applied to 

 accumulations of debris on slopes 

 in Central America; adj. baja'dal. 



Bambuse'tum, a bamboo forest asso- 

 ciation. 



Barotax'is i^apvs, heavy ; rd^is, 

 order), reaction to mechanical 

 stimulus. 



Ba'sal Cell, add, (2) sister-cell below 

 antheridial mother-cell. 



basiton'ic = basitonous. 



Batrachie'tum, an association of ba- 

 trachian Eannnculus Linn. 



bead'ed, old term for granulate. 



Beggiatoe'tum, an association of 

 Beggiatoa Trev. 



Beha'viour, dynam'ic, the part 

 played by the species in the 

 development of the community. 



bennettit'ean, pertaining to the fossil 

 genus, Bennettites Carruth. 



benth'ic, relating to Benthos. 



BertiU'onage, a combination of figures 

 by measurement of many characters 

 from a person n, applied to botany 

 by J. MacLeod. 



Bestand' (Germ.), durable form 

 (Schroeter). 



biator'ine, add, apothecia soft or waxy, 

 and often brightly coloured. 



Bif'erae, pi. [bifer, twice-fruiting), 

 flowering twice in each year ; 

 biflor'us, biflorous, add, (2), old 

 writers meant flowering in autumn 

 as well as in spring ; bi-indu'siate, 

 having a double indusium, as 

 Pteris Linn. 



Bill, an antique term for Beak. 



Biocat'alysts, pi. (+ Catalysis), a 

 synonym of P^xzymes ; Biochar'- 

 acter {xapaKr-qp, to engrave), char- 

 acters found separable as units 

 in heredity, evolution or individual 

 development (Osborn); Biocoen- 

 ol'ogy, Biocoeno'sium [kowos, com- 

 mon vegetation of a unitary 

 habitat ; social life ; ecology 

 (Gams); adj. biocoenolog'ic ; Bio- 

 coll'oid (+ Colloid), a mixture of a 

 base and an inert carbohydrate 

 as agar and albumen ; Bio-com- 

 mu'nity, ecology is its science 

 (Clements) ; Bi'omes, evidences of 

 past human communities and 

 climates (Clements) ; Bi'ont [ovra, 

 things existing), a living being ; c/. 

 Metabkint; PuoTARiONT; bio- 

 phor'ic (</>o/3eaj, to bear), having 

 vital and heritable properties 

 (Adami) ; Biosociology, the life 

 of organisms in communities (Du 

 llietz) ; adj. biosociolog'ic ; Bi'o- 

 sphere {aj>aipa, a globe), the inter- 

 mediate part between the atmo- 

 sphere and the geosphere where 

 life is lived ; vegetation is the 

 controlling influence (Clements) ; 



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