GLOSSARY. 



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0.). a plant resembling a native, but suspected of 

 ha\Hng been originally introduced. 

 Dentate, of le.if margins; toothed — the teeth point- 

 ing oiittranh^ not forwards or backwards, 

 Dermatogen, the embryonic cellular Layer at the 

 apt-N of a stem or root from which the epidermis 

 is developetl. 

 Desmid, one of the Conjugatae. See vol. ii. p. Ü55. 

 Dextrorse, used of twining pl.ants which turn from 



we,st tlm>ugh south to east, &c. 

 Diadromous, having a fan-like arrangement of leaf- 

 veins as in Gingko. 

 Dialypetalae, plants mth petals separate from one 



another ( = Polypetalie). 

 Diandria, the 2nd class of Linnean system ; includes 

 all geuei"a witli perfect flowers having two stamens. 

 Diastase, a solid, white, soluljle substance found in 



Oats, Potatoes, &c., after germination. 

 Diastole, used of the rhythmic expansion of a con- 



tr.ictile cell or vacuole. 

 Diatom, a single organism inclosed in a bivalved 



siliceous test or frustule. See vol, ii, p. 625. 

 Diatomin. the brown pigment of Diatoms. 

 Dichogamy, the maturing of pollen and stigma in a 

 hermaphrodite flower at different times, to prevent 

 self-fertilization. 

 Dicotyledon, plant with twoseed-leaves or cotyledons, 

 Dictyodromous, or reticulate venation, are terms 

 applied to lateral veins of leaves W'hich break up 

 into a network before reacliing the margin, 

 Didynamia, the 14th class of the Linnean system, 

 which includes flowers with four stamens, two long 

 and two short, 

 Didynamous, applied to flowers having four stamens, 



one pair longer than the other. 

 Dicecious, unisexual; the male and female flowers 



being on separate plants. 

 Diosmosis, the transfusion of a fluid through im- 

 perceptible openings in a membrane. 

 Diptero-cecidia, gall-structures, due to dipterous 



insects. 

 Discoid, resembling a disc. 



Discomycete, any Fungus belonging to the group 

 Discomycetes, i.e. an Ascomycete in which the fruit- 

 ing body is disc-shaped. 

 Discomycetous, pertaining to the group of Fungi 



Discnniycetes. 

 Discopodium, a disc-shaped floral receptacle. 

 Disintegration, a resolution of a tissue into its con- 

 stituent cells, or of any body into its constituents. 

 Displacement, in whorls, applied to the shifting of 

 places of insertion of members, so that successive 

 whorls are placed immediately above one another. 

 Divergence, applied to the angle between the inser- 

 tions of successive leaves on a stem. 

 Divided, used of leaf-blades to express the fact that 



they are deeply lobed. 

 Dormant eyes or buds, or Reserve-buds; are buds 

 which arise in the leaf-axils in the usual way, but 

 which do not forthwith expand into shoots; they 

 remain— often many years — until stimulated into 

 activity by some special event. 

 Drupaceous, of the nature of a drupe. 

 Drupe, a succulent fruit with hard, stony endocarp, 

 which incloses a single seed. Many-seeded drupes 

 are rare. 

 Duct, a continuous tube, arising either by the run- 

 ning together of cells (fusion), or by the separation 



of cells, when it is lacunar in nature; a canal formed 

 by a row of cells having lost their partitions. 

 Dwarf-male, of Oidogonium; the little few-celled 

 plant arising from an androspore which gives rise 

 to the spermatozoids. It is formed adjacent to the 

 oogonium. 



Ectoplasm, the peUicle-like outmost layer of proto- 

 pl.-ism in a cell. It is clear and hyaline, and less 

 fluid than the endoplasm. 

 Egg-cell, or Ovum ; the female generative cell. 

 Elaters, (1) in Liverworts, filamentous cells, with 

 spiral thickenings, which are present with the 

 spores, and, owing to their hygi-oscopicity, assist in 

 their dispersal; (2) in Equisetum, arm-like append- 

 ages of the spores, by the contractility of which 

 the spores become entangled in groups. 

 Ellipsoidal, having the form of an elliptical solid. 

 Embryo, the rudimentary plant; in seeds, that stage 

 of the young plantlet at which the resting-stage 

 supervenes. 

 Embryo-cell, the cell borne at the distal end of the 

 suspensor, which gives rise to the embryo, or to the 

 greater part of it. 

 Embryo-sac, the large cell in the nucellus of an 

 o\-ule, in which the egg-cell, and ultimately the 

 embryo, arises. 

 Endemic, restricted to a given region or locality. 

 Endophytic, living within the tissues of another 



plant, though not necessarily parasitic upon them. 

 Endoplasm, the soft, inner granular protoplasm of a 



cell, 

 Endosmosis, the transmission of fluids through 

 porous membranes from the exterior to the interior. 

 Endosperm, the tissue produced within the embryo- 

 sac of flowering plants, and which in many cases 

 becomes stored with food -materials for the embryo, 

 Endospores, asexual reproductive cells produced 



inside the original cells in Bacteria. 

 Endothecium, in flowering plants, the layers of the 



wall of the .anther internal to the exothecium. 

 Ennobling, the art of transferring a branch or bud 

 of one plant to another, and causing them to iniite. 

 Entire, untoothed: applied to the leaf-margin, petals, 



&c. 

 Entomophilous plants, such as have flowers pollin- 

 ated by insect agency. 

 Enzyme, any of the unorganized ferments which 



exist in seeds, as diastiise, pepsin, &c. 

 Ephemeral, ajiplied to flowers which endure only for 



a few hours or for a day ; opening but once. 

 Epicotyl, the portion of a plant above the cotyledons ; 



restricted to embryos and seedlings. 

 Epidermis, th.at Layer of colls which forms the envel- 

 oping mantle of multicellular plant-bodies. It may 

 be replaced in perennial I)lant8 by cork. 

 Epigeal, growing above the ground. 

 Epiphragm, of Mosses: the membrane remaining 

 .after the fall of the operculum, stretched across the 

 mouth of the ca])sule in Polytrichaceae. 

 Epiphyllous, applied to structures growing on leaves. 

 Epiphytes, plants growing attiiched to other plants 



(or animals), but not parasitically. 

 Equitant, riding ; folded around, as if straddling 



over, 

 Erythrophyll, a red sap-jiigment frequent in foliage- 

 leaves, especially in autumn. 



