Dwarf 



A DICTIONARY 



Egg-apparatus 



the characteristic color of the 

 species. 



DWARF, habitually attaining 

 much less than "the ordinary 

 size of related species or vari- 

 eties; nanus. Compare Hu- 

 milis and Depauperate. 



DWARF MALES, very small indi- 

 viduals in (Edogoniea?, origi- 

 nating from special swarm- 

 spores called androspores, and 

 producing only antberozoids. 



DYAS'TER, a stage of karyokine- 

 sis succeeding the monaster or 

 mother-star stage and ending 

 with the formation of the 

 daughter-skeins. During this 

 stage the chromatic filaments 

 are grouped about the poles, 

 the two groups (asters) being 

 more or less united by the 

 spindle-fibres or conjunctive 

 threads. See Daughter-star. 



£- or SlX-, a prefix meaning des- 

 titute of, outside of, or away 

 from. 



EAR, a prominent lobe, as those 

 at the base of the leaf in sorrel 

 (Rumex acetocella). 



EARED, see Auriculate. 



EBE'NEOUS, black like ebony. 



EBRAC'TEATE, without bracts. 



EBUR'NEOUS, ivory-white. 



ECAL'CArATE, without a spur. 



ECAU'DAXE, without a tail or 

 tail-like appendage. 



ECBLASTE'SlS, the production of 

 buds within a flower in conse- 

 quence of lateral proliticatiou. 



ECgflN'TRIC, out of the centre or 

 axis; not having the same cen- 

 tre; when the centre or axis of 

 growth does not coincide with 

 that of the mass, as in most 

 starch-grains, or in trees which 

 develop more rapidly on one 

 side than on the other. 



E€H'!NATE, spiny or prickly. 



ECHIN'tJLATE, diminutive of 

 Echinate; having small 

 prickles. 



E^ID'IUM, see vEcidium. 



ECONOMIC BfiT'ANY, the classi- 

 fication of useful and injurious 

 plants, and the study of all 

 botanical questions having a 

 practical bearing. See Agri- 

 cultural, Botany. 



EC6stATE, without a rib. 



^OTOGENIC, capable of living 

 outside of an animal body. 

 Said of certain disease-pro- 

 ducing organisms, as the ba- 

 cillus of anthrax. 



ECTOPLASM, a hyaline layer of 

 protoplasm free from granules 

 next to the cell-wall; hyalo- 

 plasm. 



EC'TOSPORE, see Basidiospore. 



ECTOSPO'ROUS, see Exosporous. 



ECTOTHE'CAL, gymnocarpous, 

 as applied to Ascom3 r cetes. 

 (Rare.) 



EDEN'TATE, without teeth, as 

 an entire leaf. 



EDGED, see Marginate. 



EFFETE', exhausted; no longer 

 productive or fruitful; past 

 the bearing age. 



EFFLORESCENCE, the time or 

 act of flowering. 



EFFUSE', spreading loosely, 

 especially on one side, as the 

 panicle of Juncus efficsus. 

 Compare Diffuse and Se- 

 cund. 



EGG-APPArA'TUS, a group of 

 three nucleated bodies at the 

 upper end of the embryo-sac, 

 which together with the upper 

 polar nucleus correspond with 

 the antipodal cells. The cen- 

 tral deeper cell of the egg-ap- 

 paratus becomes the oosphere, 

 the others form the elongated 



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