pseudocoachoid 



PusUlaejnncetaxn 



a curve in phyllotaxis enunciated 

 by Schoute; '^Pseudocormophy'tes 

 (+ CoRMOPHYTES), Trelease's term 

 for mosses ; Pseudocotyledo'neae 

 pi. (+ Cotyledon), Agardh's ex- 

 pression for vascular cryptogams ; 

 Pseudocyphel'lae, pi, ( + Cyphella), 

 pulverulent, sparingly sorediate, 

 excavated points in the under 

 surface of lichens (A. L. Smith) ; 

 Pseudodichot'omy (+ Dichotomy), 

 " monopodial production of lateral 

 axes from the segments of a domi- 

 nant 3-sided apical cell " (Church) ; 

 Pseudofertil'ity, in self-sterile plants 

 " a mere environmental fluctuation 

 having nothing to do with heredity " 

 (East); Pseudog'amy {ydfj-os, mar- 

 riage), the fusion of two hyphal 

 cells of different thalli (Bensaude); 

 Pseudogym'nosperms (+ Gymno- 

 SPERMS), cycadeoid plants (Wie- 

 land); Pseudoid'ia ( + Oidia), 

 disarticulated hyphal cells which 

 may germinate (Bensaude) ; 

 Pseudoi'on ( + Ion), acid combined 

 with colloid dissociating into the 

 named substance (Lloyd) ; Pseu'do- 

 lam'ina (+ Lamina), the leaf- 

 blade of the monocotyledons, as 

 a palm-leaf regarded as a petiolar 

 phyllome (Arber) ; Pseudoleuco- 

 der'mis, a periclinal chimaera in 

 Arabis Linn., and Glechoiiia Linn. ; 

 the seedling inherits a white sub- 

 epidermal layer ; Pseudolo'bes, seg- 

 ments of palm -leaves, from having 

 been torn in development (Arber) ; 

 Pseudomac'chia, xerophilous ever- 

 green scrub- juniper and evergreen 

 oak predominating ; c/. Lauri- 

 FBUTicETA ; Pseu'do-Ma'qul, xero- 

 phytic evergreen bush, as the fore- 

 going ; Pseu'do-mito'sis (+ Mito- 

 sis), the action of a pair of bivalent 

 chromosomes (Tischler) ; pseudo- 

 monocarp'ous, adj. of Pseudomono- 

 car'py (+ Monocarp), in cycads 

 the occurrence of mature cones 

 imbedded in the trunk, the seeds 

 not being shed until the death of 

 the tree, conserved as in the leaf- 

 bases until set free (Wieland) ; 



Pseadomycorrhrza (+ Mycor- 

 rhiza), false- my corrhiza in which 

 the fungus is a one-sided parasite 

 (Melin) ; Pseu'do-nemathe'cia, pi. 

 (+ Nemathscium), parasitic algae 

 assuming the guise of nemathecia ; 

 Pseudonu'cleus (+ Nucleus), a 

 nucleus containing blue corpuscles 

 (Auerbach) ; Pseudoparenchy'ma- 

 tous, to be shortened to parenchy'ma- 

 tous ; add, ( 2 ) the py cnidial wall of cer- 

 tain fungi, of more or less hexagonal 

 cells (W. B. Grove); Pseudopet'al, 

 one of the numerous petal-like 

 constituents of the corolla in 

 Mesembryanihemum Dill. ; Pseu'do- ~ 

 phyll (^u'AAov, a leaf), the sheathing 

 bracts of certain bamboos which 

 fall off when the leaves develop; 

 pseu'do-phyllo'dic, the peculiar 

 semi-equitant leaf of Phormium 

 Forst. ; Pseudoplasmo'dium ( + 

 Plasmodium), constituent amoe- 

 bulae remaining distinct and not 

 fusing into a true plasmodium 

 (Minchin); Pseudopod'ium, pi. -ia 

 (-f- Podium), portions of moving 

 protoplasm in Myxogastres, myxo- 

 podia; Pseudopod'iospore ( + 

 Spore), = Amoebula (Minchiu) ; 

 pseudopycnid'ial (c/. Pycnid), 

 Potebnia's term for plectenchymat- 

 ous hyphae; Pseudovac'uoles ( + 

 Vacuole), dark-reddish granules 

 in the cytoplasm of certain Cyano- 

 phyceae, " suspensory bodies " of 

 Molisch (West); Pseudo-valve, a 

 semi -solid carpel splitting at 

 maturity between the two vas- 

 cular bundles of the midrib (Saun- 

 ders). 



psilic'olons ((/(tAo?, bare), prairie- 

 dwelling, 



Pter'eosere (+ Sere), characterised 

 by fossil pteridophytes, a paleo- 

 phytic eosere ; = Paleosere 

 (Clements); pter'id, allied to 

 Pteris Linn. (Bower) ; Pteride'tum, 

 an association of ferns. 



Pul'vinoid (efSo?, form), a petiole 

 acting in a degree as the pulvinus 

 (Bose). 



Pusillaejunce'tum [pusillus, petty). 



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