Herborization 



heterochlamydeoas 



botanic excursion for the collection 

 of plants ; herb'orize, to botanize. 



Hercog'amy {epKos, a fence ; yd/LLos, 

 marriage), applied to hermaphrodite 

 flowers, when some structural pecu- 

 liarity prevents self-fertilization ; 

 requiring insect- visitation ; adj. her- 

 cogamlc, herkogam'ic, hercog'- 

 amous, -mtcs ; ab'solute -^ , the 

 possibility of self-pollination is 

 always excluded ; conceared ~ , self- 

 pollination as frequent as insect- 

 pollination ; contin'gent -^ , acci- 

 dental and occasional self-pollination 

 is possible ; half ~ , flowers at first 

 hercogamous, but at a later period 

 self-pollination becomes practicable 

 from growth or change in parts of 

 the flower. 



Hered'ity {hcre'diias, heirship), pos- 

 session by inheritance, of certain 

 qualities or structures ; bisex'ual '^ , 

 unisez'ual ^, having the qualities 

 of both, or of one parent only trans- 

 mitted ; adj. hered'itary ; ~ Sjrmbi- 

 o'sia, the presence of Mycobacteria 

 in the tissues, including seeds. 



hermapli'rodite, hermaphrodi'tus (Lat. 

 having the characters of both sexes), 

 the stamens and pistils in the same 

 flower. 



Her'pes (cpTrrjs, a cutaneous eruption) 

 tonsu'rans (Lat., shaving), ring- 

 worm, a disease of the skin as- 

 cribed to Trichophyton tonsurans, 

 Malm. 



Hcrp'ism (epirc, I creep), creeping by 

 means of variously shaped pseudo- 

 podia, as in Flagellata ; Her poblast 

 {^Kacrrhs, a shoot), Cramer's term 

 for a confervoid prothallium lying 

 flat on its substratum. 



Hertzot'topism {rpoir)], a turning), 

 movement due to the influence of 

 the Hertzian waves, whence the 

 term (M assart). 



Hesperid'ium (from the golden fruit 

 of the garden of the Jlesperides), 

 Desvaux's term for a fruit, such as 

 the orange : a superior, polycarpel- 

 lary, syncaipous berry, pulpy within, 

 and externally covered with a tougli 

 rind ; Auiiantium of de Candolle. 



Hetae'rio {eraipcia, a brotherhood); 

 a collection of distinct indehiscent 

 carpels produced by a single flower, 

 dry or fleshy, as in the Strawberry, 

 Buttercup, Raspberry ; usually 

 spelled Etaeuio. 



Heterac'my {erepos, other ; aK/x^, 

 apex), = DicoGAMY ; Heteraderphy 

 {a8€\<phs, a brother), used of two 

 adherent carpels which develop 

 unequally, one being more or less 

 atrophied (Reymondaud); heterand'- 

 rous (ovTjp, auSphs, a man), with 

 two sets of stamens ; applied to 

 flowers whose stamens vary in size ; 

 Heteran'dry, the condition de- 

 scribed ; Heteranthe'ry, the con- 

 dition of having distinct kinds of 

 stamens ; Heterauxe'sis {aij^r)<rls, 

 giowth), variation in the relative 

 growth of opposite sides of an 

 organ ; beterax'on {&^a>v, an axle), 

 applied by 0. Mueller to a diatom 

 if the transverse axes are unequal ; 

 Heteroalbumose' ( + Albumose), 

 Kuhne-s term for proteid, pliytal- 

 bumose ; heteroblas^tio {^haaros, a 

 shoot), (1) afiplied to embryogeny 

 which is indii'ect, the ofllspring not 

 similar to the parent, but producing 

 the adult form as an outgrowth, as 

 in Chara; (2) used by Uoebel to 

 express the fact that the adult form 

 of a plant is very unlike tiie young 

 or larval form ; (3) applied bv 

 Pfitzer to those Orchids in which 

 the pseudobulbs consist of a single 

 swollen internode ; the condition is 

 Heteroblas'ty ; Heterob'olites (SoXly, 

 a missile), a catabolic product with 

 absorption of other bodies (Beyer- 

 inck) ; cf. Schizobolites ; hetero- 

 car'picus (fructus), " an inferior 

 fruit" (Lindley) ; heterocar'pinus 

 {Kapvos, fruit), an inferior or par- 

 tially inferior fruit, as the acorn ; 

 beterocar'pous, -pics, producing more 

 than one kind of fruit ; Heterocar'py, 

 having two kinds of fruit ; hetero- 

 ceph'alus ■{K€<pa\^, the head), bear- 

 ing two kinds of head or capitulum ; 

 beterochlamyd'eous, -deits (xA-o^iuj, 

 a mantle), when the calyx and 



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