Oeobotany 



Qyaopleogamy 



(6) florist'ic ~, local botany ; (c) 

 genetic ~, changes, and Phyto- 

 socioLOGY, q.v. ; geodynam'ic 

 (Suva/xi?, power), the influence of 

 soils as agents ; Geogen'esis (yeWort?, 

 origin), botanic origins; adj. geo- 

 genet'ic; geognost'ic (yvibais, wis- 

 dom), that knowledge of the struc- 

 ture of the earth informatoiy of 

 distribution; Geoph'ilae (<^tAc6o, I 

 love), algae growing on bare earth, 

 or mossy ground (Ivanoff); Ge'o- 

 sere (+ Sere), the total plant suc- 

 cession of the geological past 

 (Clements) ; Ge'osphere {a^aXpa, a 

 globe), the earth itself as a whole 

 (Clements); Ge'ostrate ( + Strate), 

 the entire series of strates, sub- 

 divided as Ce'neostrate, the strate 

 corresponding to the Cainozoic or 

 Tertiary period in geology ; the 

 Me^seostrate to Mesozoic ~ and 

 Pal'eostrate to Palaeozoic periods ; 

 Qeox'yl {^vXov, wood), having a 

 woody stem, partly hypogeic, 

 partly epigeic ; c/. Aeroxyl (Lind- 

 man) ; Ge'otome (to/ios-, a cut), an 

 instrument to cut sods or soil 

 (Clements). 



Germ'ules, pi. {germen, a germ), small 

 seeds or other means of distribution 

 (Clements). 



Gi'antism, of gigantic size, giganticism. 



gink'goid, like the genus Ginkgo Linn. ; 

 Gink'gophyte {^vt6v, a plant), a 

 plant resembling the modern 

 Ginkgo (Wieland), 



Gitonog'amy, an American form of 

 Geitonooamy. 



gloeocar'pous, when the fruits are 

 immersed in mucus. 



Giucostact'y (+ Glucose, tactio, 

 touch), maize seedlings which 

 sweat a sugary fluid ; glucose 

 (Eyster); adj. glucostact'ous. 



glu'moid, glume-like. 



Gneta'leans = Gnetaceae (Wieland) ; 

 gneta'lian, belonging to Gnetum 

 Linn, or Gnetaceae. 



Gon'el {yovTj, offspring), floral repro- 

 ductive apparatus subdivided into 

 Ampitio'onel, Acroo'onel, and 

 Anthoo'cnel; Gon'elet, part of a 



Gonel, built up of Gon'oclines, pi., 

 units of Amphigonel receptacles 

 (Vuillemin). 



Grada'tae {gradatus, furnished with 

 steps), definite succession in time 

 and space in the production of sori 

 in homosporous ferns ; the domi- 

 nant ferns of the present time 

 (Bower) ; gradate', the intermediate 

 condition of a fern-sorus (Bower); 

 Grada'tion, the variation of a given 

 character along a given axis (Mac- 

 Leod) ; ~ Curve represents observed 

 values of a character (MacLeod). 



-graph, suffix for " a recording instru- 

 ment " (Clements). 



Grass'veld, the predominant feature 

 of South African vegetation. 



gregarin'iform applied to spores which 

 glide along (Minchin) ; Gregarin'- 

 ulae, the spores mentioned. 



gregar'ious {gregarius, belonging to a 

 herd), applied in varying degrees 

 to the frequency of a species 

 (Clements). 



Gubernac'ulum (Lat. a rudder), the 

 " trailer " of two flagella (Church). 



Gym'neosere (+ Sere), a mesosere or 

 sere of prevalent gymnosperms 

 (Clements) ; gymnophyrious(^uAAov, 

 a leaf), having branchlets destitute 

 of cortex. 



Gynan'dromorph {av-qp, avSpos, a man ; 

 fiop(f)T], shape), a female plant 

 assuming the appearance of a male 

 plant; gynecogen'ic (yevos, race), 

 parthenogenic (Janet) ; Gyneco- 

 I'ogy, ecology of species (Turesson) ; 

 Gynoe'cium, formed from yvfx-q and 

 oiKos, which give the corrected 

 spelling [cf. Roeper in Linnaea, i. 

 (1826) 438 in textu]; Gynoe'cy, the 

 occurrence of purely female indivi- 

 duals in a plant (Uexkiill) ; Gyno- 

 gonid'ium (+ Gonidium), Janet's 

 term for Oospore ; Gy'noplasm 

 {rrXdafia, that formed), passive 

 protoplasm as in female gametes 

 (N. Jones) ; adj. gynoplas'mic ; 

 Qynopleog'amy (+ Pleooamy), one 

 individual with pistillate flowers, 

 another with perfect flowers, and a 

 third gynomonoecious (Schutz) ; 



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