hemichimonopliilous 



hemipsammic 



those plants whose above-ground 

 development begins even during* the 

 prevalence of frost, as Ranunculus 

 Ficaria, Linn. ; hemichlamyd'eous 

 (xAo/xi/s, a cloak), half-coated, as 

 ovules when borne on an inverted 

 sympliyllodiuni in Coniferae (Cela- 

 kovsky) ; Hemicleistog'amy '( + 

 Cleistogamy), Knuth's term for 

 che condition of plants whose flowers 

 open slightly; adj. hemicleisto- 

 gam'ic ; hemiconcen'tric {concentri- 

 cus, Late Lat., having a common 

 centre), incompletely concentric 

 (Solereder) ; Hemicrypt'ophytes ( + 

 Cryptoi'HY'J'es), perennial plants 

 having their buds at the level of the 

 ground (Raunkifer) ; Hemicy'cle 

 (kvk\o5, a circle), a half-circle, or 

 half-coil ; hemicy'clic, partly in 

 whorls, as the perianth leaves in 

 whorls, and the sporophylls in 

 spirals ; hemicylin'dric {KvAivSpos, 

 a cylinder), (1) hal f- terete ; (2) a 

 leafy expansion, plane on one fide, 

 convex on the other; Hemidys- 

 troph'ia {8vcr-, bad ; rpocpij, nomish- 

 raent), partial nourisliment, semi- 

 starvation ; hemiendobiot'ic ( -f 

 KNDOBioiic), living usually within 

 the host, sometimes outside it ; 

 hemiendophyt'ic (+ endophytic), 

 used of a fungus parasite sometimes 

 external and sometimes internal 

 (Salmon)'; Hemiendozo'a {Cci}ov, an 

 animal), applied to Torxihia, as 

 though imperfect plants ; Hemiep'i- 

 phyte (eVI, upon ; (pvrhv, a plant), 

 employed by Went for a plant which 

 at first roots in the soil, afterwards 

 developing aerial roots ; Hem^iform 

 ( -f- Form), used of heteroecious 

 Fungi, having uredospores and tele- 

 utospores, the latter on ly germinating 

 after a resting period ; hemigamot'- 

 ropous {ydfios, marriage ; rpoir)?, a 

 turning), used of flowers which open 

 and shut imperfectly ; hemigona'ris + 

 {yovos, offspring), employed when a 

 part of both stamens and pistils are 

 changed into petals ; hemigymno- 

 car'pous (-f oymnocarpous), iised 

 of Fungi which mature their spores 



in closed receptacles which open 

 for their dispersal ; Hemigy'rus J 

 iyvpor, round) = Follici-e ; hemi- 

 hel'icoid (+ helicoid) F. N. Wil- 

 liams's term for Braun's hemicyclic ; 

 hemi'iden'tic, nearly the same ; e. g. 

 the red flowers and spots of the leaf- 

 axils in certain races of peas arsL, 

 hemiidejitic characteis; Hemimetat''- 

 ropy {/xerh, with ; Tponi], a turning), 

 in crossing when the interchange 

 between male and female elements 

 from different flowers or plants is 

 only half completed (K. Pearson) ; 

 adj. hemimeta tropic ; hemiortho- 

 morph'ic {opdhs, upright ; fJ.op(p^, 

 shape), symmetric organs which 

 possess an equality in a vertical 

 plane (Wiesner) ; Hemiorthot'ropy 

 (rpoTTTj, a turning), any naturally 

 placed organ displaying vertical 

 symmetry (Wiesner) ; Hemipar'a- 

 site (+ Parasite), (1) plants whose 

 seeds germinate without a host plant, 

 but whose after life is dependent 

 upon a host, as Bartsia and Tozzia ; 

 (2) a facultative saprophyte, a para- 

 site which can exist as a saprophyte ; 

 Hemiparthen'osperm (+ Parthen- 

 08PRRM),, C. MacMillan's term for 

 a plant having either embryo or 

 endosperm parthenogenetic, but not 

 both ; hemipe'lic (TrrjAbs, clay), rocks 

 which yield a moderate amount of 

 clay detritus, and the plants which 

 aff"ect such localities (Thurmann) ; 

 hemipelor'ic (ireAciptos, monstrous), 

 partly peloric flowers in Lhuiria, 

 the flowers being nearly regular 

 (Vernon) ; Hemipentacot'y^. a seed- 

 ling with partial division of its 

 cotyledons so as to appear as if it 

 had five ; Hem'iphyll {<pv\\ov, a 

 leaf), the hypothetic segment of a 

 carpel ; ov'ular ~ , placen'tal ~ , 

 those which become modified into 

 special parts of the ovary respec- 

 tively, cf. Tkiphyllome ; Hemi- 

 plank'ton ( + Plankton), the 

 mingled vegetation of shallow and 

 deep water forms in land-locked 

 pools, etc. (A. F. W. Schimper) ; 

 hemipsam'mic (i^c^^juos, sand), strata 



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