Homoeogamy 



Homomorphy 



cell, instead of the oosphere as 

 in Balanaphora (Van Tieghem) ; 

 Homoeokine'sis {Klv-qans, motion), 

 Grt'goire's terra for liomotypic meio- 

 sis; Homoeoli'chenes (+ JL-khen) 

 Lichens with gonidia distributed 

 throughout the thallus ; homo- 

 eom'erous {fj-fpos, a rest, hyphae 

 and gonidia more or less mixed 

 in a lichen thallus ; Ho'moeomorph 

 (^0^77, shaj)e), similar organisms 

 of ditiereiit origin due to condi- 

 tions of the environment, as many 

 species of Cactaceae and Euphor- 

 biaceae ; Homoeomorph'y is the state; 

 Hom'eoplasy {irXdaaw, I form), ab- 

 normal growth composed of normal 

 elements ; Homoeo'sis {dia-is, = im- 

 pulse), Bateson's term for metamor- 

 phy, a variation by assumption by one 

 member of a meristie series, of the 

 form or character proper to others ; 

 in'ward ~ outer organs taking on 

 the structure of a whorl internal to 

 itself; out'ward ■^ assumi»tion of 

 form of outer organs by inner parts, 

 as disc-flowers of Compositae 1 >ecom- 

 ing peialoid like those of tlie ray ; 

 homoet'ic, metamorphic. rf. Homo- 

 Eu.sis; Hom'oetype = HoMorvrE; 

 homoetyp'ic = iidmotyi'ic 

 homog'amous, -inus {ofxbs, one and the 

 same, yd/xos, marriage), bearing one 

 kind of flower ; Homog'amy, simulta- 

 neous ripeness of pollen and stigmas 

 in a perfect flowei' ; (]) Iw Delpino 

 divided into ikjmocephalic ~, 

 HOMOCLIMC '~, or MON'OEl lous ~ ; 

 (2) independently coined by G. J. 

 Romanes to express '"discriminate 

 isolation " ; homogen'eal, homo- 

 genet'ic, homoge'neous, {y4vos, race, 

 kind), of the same kind or nature, 

 uniform, opposed to hetm-ogeneous ; 

 Homogen'esis, Hoinog'eny, the re- 

 verse of Heti<:uo(;enes[s ; the suc- 

 cessive generations resembling the 

 parent foiiu ; Hom'ogene, the con- 

 dition of oirs]tring whose parents are 

 pure and vi' tlie same type (Lf)tsy); 

 Hom'ogone {yopos, ofl's]iring), a jtlant 

 bearing only one kind of flowers ; 

 adj. homog'onous ; Homog'ony, the 



state of uniform respective length 

 of anthers and stigmas in perfect 

 flowers ; homostylous ; the opposite 

 of Heterogony ;" Homoheterosty'ly, 

 the occurrence of similar and dis- 

 similar styles in the same species 

 (Warming). 



homoiochlamyd'eous (ofioios, like ; 

 X^a/j.vs, a mantle) used by Engler and 

 Prantl when the perianth is uniform ; 

 homoiog'amous (70,1105, marriage), adj. 

 of the next ; Homoiog'amy, the fusion 

 of two sexual nuclei of the same kind ; 

 homoiom'erous i/iejos, a part), used of 

 a Lichen thallus when the gonidia 

 and hyphae are distributed in about 

 equal proportions ; Wallroth em- 

 ployed the word ho/noeom'eres from 

 6fMoiofj.(p)]s ; Homoi'otlierms, pi. 

 [Qipfxos, hot), plants whose vital 

 temperatures are approximately the 

 same as their surroundings. 



homokaryot'ic [bpihs, one and the 

 same; Kapuov, a nut), spores which 

 contain nuclei of differing sexuality 

 (Burgett") ; Homokine'sis {Kivrjais, mo- 

 tion), liomotypic mitosis (Gregoire) ; 

 Homoli'cheni, a defective term for 

 HoMOEOLK'HENEs, i.e., Liclieus 

 with gonidia distributed generally 

 throughout the tliallus ' (Jatta) ; 

 homorogous {\6yos, discourse), ot 

 one type, eonstrnctfd on the same 

 plan though varying in form and 

 function, as leaves and jiarts which 

 answer morphologically to leaves ; ~ 

 Alternation of (Jcnerations, difler- 

 entiation of generations which are 

 fundamentally alike a-; regards 

 descent, either in form or the char- 

 acter of their reproductive organs ; 

 cf. ANTITHETIC ; Hom'ologue, the 

 equivalent of certain organs ; 

 Homorogy, the identity of parts 

 apparently different homomal'lous, 

 homom'alous (Crozier). -/ns (fxa\\i>s, 

 a lock of wool), recurved, arising 

 from all sides but turne<l to one 

 direction ; homomer'icus {/j-fpos, 

 a ])art) = HoMoKi.MEimus ; homo- 

 mor'phous, -phns, homomor'phic 

 p.op<pT], form), uniform in ^hape; 

 Homomor'phy, uniformity, as when 

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