Lipms 



malaceons 



phatides, with phosphorus and 

 nitrogen; Lecithin is one of the 

 three known (Priestley). 



Liriog'amae {Xelpiov, the white lilj ; 

 ydfj-oSf marriage), monocotyledons 

 with a perianth never glumace- 

 ous. 

 Lith'arch {dpx-q, beginning), a succes- 

 sion or adsere on hard rock 

 (Clements) ; Lith'ophyte (^uroi', a 

 plant), plants growing on rock or 

 stones; adj. lithophyt'ic; Lith'osere 

 (+ Sere), a rocky Adsere 

 (Clements) ; beginning on bare 

 rock (Tansley and Chipp) ; litho- 

 spher'ic {a<f)aipa, a globe), earth 

 or rock agency in migration (C. C. 

 Adams). 



Littorelle'tum, an association of Lit- 

 torella Berg. 



Local'ity, add, (2) the ground occupied 

 by an individual association (Water- 

 man). 



Loc'ale for Loc'ulus, Loc'uli spu'rii 

 are certain cavities in the seeds of 

 Beriholletia Humb. et Bonpl., 

 the brazil-nut of commerce. 



" Lo'cns " Change, restricted to one 

 of a pair of chromosomes, without 

 affecting its allelomorphic mate ; 

 the change first appears in the 

 heterozygous condition, 



Loeb Effect', the action of an in- 

 hibitor, probably a single active 

 substance in early bud, before the 

 later growth. 



Logarith'mic Phase, the second stage 

 in the growth of the yeast plant. 



Loiseleorie'tam, an association of 

 Loiseleuria procumbens Desv. 



Long shoot = Leader ; long-styled, 

 when the styles exceed the stamens 

 in length ; cf. short-styled. 



lopped' [monosyll.], old term for 

 truncate. 



lorantha'ceons, akin to or resembling 

 Loranthaceae. 



lo'tic {lotusy washed), used of asso- 

 ciations in rapidly flowing streams 

 (Needham and Lloyd). 



low'er, suggested by Hurst to super- 

 sede Bateson's " hypostatic," as a 



substitute for " recessive." 



Lozule'tum, an association of Luzula 



DC. 

 Lychne'tum, abbreviation for Lychni- 



de'tum, an association of Lychnis 



Linn. 

 lycopodin'eous, relating to Lycopodiiim 



Linn. (Jeffrey). 



Mac'chia (Ital.), shrubby growth, 

 mainly evergreen, in Mediterranean 

 regions. 



macran'drous, add, (2) used of 

 antheridia developed in male fila- 

 ments of Oedogonium Link, nearly 

 as large as the filaments themselves 

 (West) ; macrobioste'monous, -ic, 

 (Bios, life ; cnrjiiojv, a thread), 

 having persistent stamens (Del- 

 pino) ; macrocle'ma (/cAiJ/xa, a 

 twig), with long branchlets ; macro- 

 dac'tylous, the ultimate rays of 

 Nitella Ag., long ; Macrog'amy 

 {ydfios, marriage) = Holoqamy; 

 Macronu'cleus (+ Nucleus), in di- 

 atoms the nucleus as commonly 

 received (West) ; Macrophan'ero- 

 phytes (+ Phanerophytes), trees; 

 Mac'rophyll {(f>vXXov, a leaf), Raun- 

 kiaer's term for a long leaf, but 

 less than a megaphyll ; Macro- 

 phytoplank'ton, floating Angio- 

 sperms, large algae, etc. ; mac- 

 ropt'ilus (TTTt'Aov, a feather), longi- 

 bract-eate ; Macropycnid'ia (+ 

 Pycnidia), large conidiospores in 

 pycnidia ; Macropyc'nospores, pi., 

 long spores of certain fungi ; Mac'ro- 

 scope (cKOTTeo), I see), a hand mi- 

 croscope, magnifying about 10 

 diameters, for field-work. 



Magmaph'ilae, pi. (^lAeto, I love), 

 algae which prefer warm and well- 

 lit waters, forming a coloured 

 mixture (Ivanoff). 



Mag'nigrade (gradns, a step), applied 

 to a large variation, as ~ Tran- 

 sil'ient, or ~ Saltation ; '- Evolu- 

 tion = discontinuous ; cf. Parvi- 

 GRADE ; Magnocarice'tum, an asso- 

 ciation of large species of Carcx 

 Linn. 



mala'ceous [ixaXaKos, delicate), used 



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