Kettle -traps 



Kollenohym 



Ket'tle-trapfl, applied to such flowers 

 as those of Aristolochia, which iro- 

 prison insects until fertilization is 

 effected. 



Key, (1) a clavis or short statement of 

 the contrasted characters of a genus 

 or other group; (2) or Key-fruit, 

 the Samara of sycamore or ash. 



kid'ney-form, kid'ney-shaped, oblately 

 cordate ; crescent-shaped, with the 

 ends rounded. 



Kin'ases, pi., ferments or enzymes. 



Kind, genus or species, a sort. 



Kine'sis {Kluriais, motion), (1) move- 

 ment, used by T. W. Engelmann in 

 contradistinction to Taxis ; (2) = 

 Karyokinesis ; kinet'ic, relating to 

 kinesis; --' En'ergy, the energy of 

 actual motion, as opposed to potential 

 energy ; Kine'tosomes, pi. {cMixa, a 

 body), small polar plates or bodies 

 of kinoplasm present before mitosis, 

 presumably material for the forma- 

 tion of the spindle-fibres (Allen). 



kinlc [Kina-Kina, a name for Cin- 

 chona), pertaining to cinchona ; r^ 

 Ac'id, an organic acid in Cinchona 

 barks. 



King'dom, one of the highest groups 

 of organic nature ; the Veg'etable '^ 

 includes all plants. 



Ki'noplRsm iKiVfco^ I set in motion ; 

 irXdfffia, moulded), that part of cyto- 

 plasm involved in spindle formation, 

 as contrasted with Trophoplasm ; 

 Ki'nospore ( -f Spoue), a spore re- 

 sulting from a simple process of 

 division, as motile zoospores, conidia, 

 pycnidospores (Klebs). 



Klado'dium = Cladode. 



Kleisanthe'ry = Cleisanthery. 



kleistogam'ic, kleistog'amous = cle- 



ISTOOAMIC. 



Klinogeot'ropiBm [kKivu, I bend ; 77), 

 the earth ; rpoir^, a turning), the 

 drooping tendency of the free end 

 of a climbing plant whilst mutating 

 (Pfeffer) ; Klinomorph'y {uop^^, a 

 shape), Wiesner's terra for the con- 

 dition of an organ determined by 

 the simultaneous obliaue position of 

 the principal and meaian planes, so 

 that the right and left halves may 



be distinguished as upper and lower, 

 resulting in a diflferent shape of the 

 two halves ; klinorrhom'bic {(tSufios, 

 a rhomb), a mineralogic term applied 

 by De I3ary to oblique rhombic 

 crystals iu plants ; Kli'nostat = 

 Clinostat ; klinotroplc = clino- 

 TROPic ; Klinot'ropism = Clino- 



TROPISM. 



Knaur = Gnaur. 



Knee, (1) an abrupt bend in a stem or 

 tree-trnnk ; (2) an outgrowth of 

 some tree-roots ; -joint'ed, genicu- 

 late; '--pan-shaped, concavo-convex, 

 patclliforra ; kneed, geniculate. 



Knight-Dar'win Law, generally under- 

 stood as "that no organic being 

 fertilizes itself for an eternity of 

 generations"; preferably "Nature 

 abhors perpetual self-fertilization," 

 cf. Y. Darwin in Nature^ Iviii., 

 630-632. 



knob-like = gongylodes; knobbed = 

 TORULOSE; knoVby = nodosk. 



Knobs, used by Sir J. E. Smith for 

 Cephalodia. 



Knor'ria, formerly a genus of fossil 

 plants, now used for lepidodendroid 

 stems when their cortex has been 

 stripped off to a considerable but 

 variable depth (Scott). 



Knot, (1) a node in the stem of 

 grasses ; (2) a swelling in stems at 

 the attachment of the leaf; (3) 

 various diseases caused by Fungi, 

 as Black -- , effected by Plowrightia 

 Diorbosa, Sacc. (Tubenf); Knot-phase, 

 in nuclear-division, is also known 

 as skein-stage^ or spirera; Knot- 

 stage = Skein in nuclear division ; 

 kaot'ted, knot'ty, nodose. 



Knur, Knurl, a knob or hard substance 

 = Gnaur. 



koele'rian, relating to Eiihus Koderi 

 or its close allies. 



Koleoch'jrma («o\ebj, a sheath; tyxvixa, 

 an infusion) = Kritenchyma. 



Koriaplankton {niKXa, glue ; -4- 

 Plankton), used of organisms which 

 float by being encased in gelatinous 

 envelopes (Forel) ; Kollen'ohym 

 (e7xy,wo, an infusion) = Hypno- 

 derm. 



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