•Meeni 



euephemerous 



-escenfl, a Latin suflBx = ish, thus rub- 

 eacens = redd-ish. 



M'calent {esculentus, fit for eating), 

 suitable for human food. 



Es'culin = Aesculin. 



•sep'tate («, priv. ; septmn, a partition), 

 destitute of septa. 



esore'diate, destitute of Soredia. 



esoteric {i(r<i>repos, inner), arising from 

 inside the organism. 



Espalier, a fruit tree trained lattice- 

 fashion, in one plane, but not 

 attached to a wall ; — shape, 

 stems pressed against tht ground 

 (Warming). 



espatha'ceas {e, priv.^ + Spatha, 

 -aceus), wanting a spathe ; Lindley 

 gives the form espatha'tus J. 



essen'tial {essentia, the being of any- 

 thing), the necessary constituent of 

 an existing object : -- Char'acter, 

 the distinguishino; note by which a 

 form differs from its allies, diagnostic 

 character ; ~ Or'gans, those which 

 are absolutely necessary, stamens 

 and pistils. 



Esthe'sis = Aesthesis. 



esti'val = aestival ; e'stivate = 

 aesiivate; Estiva'tion = Aesti- 

 vation. 



estrophlolate {rstrnphioln.'tus, destitute 

 of caruncle, or Strophiole. 



Etae'rio, Etai'riuTn {fraipela, com- 

 panionship), an aggregate fruit 

 composed of achenes or drupes, as 

 in Ranunculus, the Strawberry, 

 and Blackberry ; adj. etairiona'ris, 

 ttairio'neiif!. 



Ete'sisB I iri.atof. annual), herbaceous 

 perenuials ; the root persisting, 

 with the above-ground portion only 

 annual ; adj ete'sial. 



ethnobotan'ic (?0j/rfr, a tribe ; fiordyrj, 

 a herb), relating to those plants 

 which illustrate or are typical of 

 the custom? of a given race or 

 people. 



e'tiolative, tending to disease. 



e'tiolated etwla'tus (Fr. etiol^, drawn 

 out), lengthened or deprived of 

 colour by absence of light ; Etiola'- 

 tion, the condition of being blanched; 

 E'tiolin, the yellow-colouring matter 



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of blanched plants, chlorophyll which 

 has not acquired its green colour 

 (Pringsheim). 



etiological, connected with Aetio- 

 logy ; E'tiology = Aetiology. 



etrabecula'tus {e, priv. ; trabecula, a 

 little l>eam), not cross-barred ; when 

 the peristome teeth of Mosses want 

 cross-connections. 



-e'tum, sufRx denoting Consocies 

 (Clements). 



eii- (eS, well), in Greek compounds = 

 true ; often used in sectional names, 

 with a restricted meaning ; enacran- 

 thlc {&Kpos, apex ; fiv^o-f, flower), 

 truly terminal ; ~ Flow'er, a terminal 

 flower which springs immediately 

 from the apex of a shoot which has 

 produced leaves or other lateral 

 structures ; cf. pseudacranthic ; 

 euanthlc, used by Del pin o to denote 

 a monothalamic flower, the reverse 

 being fskudanthio ; Euanthros- 

 trobllus (-f Anthrostrobilus), the 

 theoretic id^a of the flowering 

 Angiosperms (Arber and Parkin) ; 

 Euapog'amy(-j-Ap<)GAMY),restricted 

 to such ca'^es as have no obvious need 

 for fertilization as in Aihyrium. 

 (Farmer and Digby). 



Eucalyptorogist, an expert in the 

 polymorphic genus Eitcalyplus 

 (Maiden). 



Eucar'otin (eS, well ; -f- Carotin), Zopf 

 employs this to denote the yellow 

 carotin as distinct from the red ; 

 eucarplc {Kapirh^, fruit), applied to 

 certain Algae where part only of the 

 body of the plant goes to form the 

 sporangium, in contrast to HOLO- 

 CARPic ; eucar'pouB, ( 1 ) = eucarpic ; 

 (2) of Fungi when producing several 

 successive fructifications from the 

 same thallus ; eucy'clic {kvk\o5, a 

 circle), when flowers are composed 

 of alternate isomerous whorls. 



Eudiom'eter {evSla, fair weather ; 

 fierpoi^, measure) an instrument for 

 measuring the quantity of oxygen in 

 a given bulk of fluid ; adj. eudio- 

 met'ric. 



euephem'erous (eS, well ; -f ephem- 

 eiu)Us), applied to flowers which open 



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