hemipsammic 



Herborization 



which give a moderately porous 

 detritus, with the plants which pre- 

 fer such places (Thurmaim) ; Hemi- 

 puccin'ia, a group of Puccinia, = 

 liEMiFoPwM ; Hemisap'ropliyte ( + 

 Saproi'Hvtk), a plant which appro- 

 priates humus although capable of 

 self-support, a facultative parasite 

 (Warming) ; hem'iscliist (trxto'Tos, 

 split), in brood-cell formation when 

 the nucleus only divides, the cyto- 

 plasm remaining whole (Hartog); 

 Hemisyncot'yly ( -f Syncotyly), 

 when seedlings have their cotyledons 

 partially fused with one another or 

 3ome other organ (De Vries) ; hemi- 

 syngyn'icus {(rvy, with ; yuvr), yvvai- 

 Kosy a woman), half-adherent (Lind- 

 iey) ; Hemite'ria X {repas, & monstei), 

 ' ' a monstrosity of elementary organs, 

 or of appendages of the axis " (Lind- 

 ley) ; Hemitetracotyle'don {rerpas, 

 four ; -f Cotyledon), De Vries's 

 expression when both cotyledons 

 are divided, or one normal and the 

 other divided ; hemit'riclious J {dpli, 

 rpiKhs, hair), half covered with hairs ; 

 Hemitricotyle'don {rpus, three ; + 

 Cotylrdon), used by De Vries, when 

 one cotyledon is apparently divided 

 into three ; Hemitricot'yly, partial 

 division of one cotyledon ; complete" 

 fission is Tuicotyly (De Vries) ; 

 hemit'ropal, hemit'ropous (r^Jiroy, 

 direction), (1) amphitropous, the 

 axis of the ovule being more curved 

 than the anatropous conditian ; 

 (2) employed by MacLeod for flowers 

 which are lestrictea to certain in- 

 sects for lioney-getting ; (3) with 

 flowers of moderate adaptiveness to 

 insect visitors, the mean between 

 ALLOTROPous and EUTiiopous ; (4) 

 also applied to insects which visit 

 the same, as flies, short-tongued bees, 

 and most butterflies (Loew) ; '-' 

 Herkog'amy = Hercogamy 



Hemp, the libro-vascular tissue of 

 Cannabis saliva, Linn. 



Hen-and-chickens, proliferous flowers, 

 the centre flower or head being sur- 

 rounded by subsidiary flowers. 



Henslo'vian Mem'brane, the cuticle ; 



so named from Prof. J. S. Henslow's 

 researches on the same. 



hepat'ic, hepat'icous, -cus (Lat., dis- 

 eased in the liver), liver-coloured, 

 dark, imrplish-red ; Hepaticorogist, 

 an expert in Hepaticae ; Hepati- 

 col'Dgy {K6'yos, discourse), the 

 study of the Hepaticae or Liver- 

 worts. 



Hepo'doche (eVw, I follow ; 5ox^, suc- 

 cession), a secondary succession 

 (Clements). 



Heptagyn'ia (iTrra, seven ; yw^, a 

 woman), a Jinnean class of plants 

 having seven pistils ; heptagyn'ian, 

 possessing seven pistils ; heptam'- 

 erous (/jLcpos, a part), having the 

 parts in sevens ; heptan'der {avhp.. 

 avSphs, a man), having seven sta- 

 mens ; Heptan'dria, a Linnean order 

 of plants with seven stamens ; hep- 

 tan'drian, heptan'drous, relating^ to 

 the same, or possessing seven sta- 

 mens ; heptapet'alous (Tr4ra\ov, a 

 flower leaf), having seven petals ; 

 heptaphyl'lous {(pvWov, a leaf), with 

 seven leaves ; hep'tarch, applied to 

 a fibrovascular cylinder or stele with 

 seven rays or bundles ; heptari'mis 

 {&ppT]v, male), IS'eckei''s term for 



HEPTANDROUS. 



Herb, Herh'a (Lat., grass, herbage, 

 plant), a plant with no persistent 

 stem above ground ; herba'eeous, 

 -ceus ( -f ) ACEOUS, ( 1 ) with the t exture, 

 colour and properties of a herb ; (2) 

 with annual stems from a perennial 

 root, as an ~ Peren'nial ; Herb'age, 

 herbs collectively, grass, pasture ; 

 Herb'al, (1) an ola volume containing 

 descriptions of plants, such as John 

 Gerard's " Herball " ; (2) sometimes 

 = Herbarium ; Herb'alist, (1) a 

 writer of herbals, one of the old 

 botanists ; (2) a person skilled in 

 the knowledge of herbs ; Herb'arist, 

 an old word for l)otanist ; Herba'- 

 rium, a collection of dried plants, 

 formerly styled a ^'hortus siccus" \ 

 Herb'elet, Herb'let, a small herb ; 

 herbes'cent, growing into herbs ; 

 Herb'orist, a collector of plants for 

 medical use ; Herboriza'tion, a 



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