Lysigenous 



A DICTIONARY 



Manubrium 



lysigenous. Compare Scmzo- 



GENIC. 



LYSl6'EN0u"S, see Lysigenic. 



mAcrAN'DROUS, having large or 

 elongated male plants in algae. 



MACRO-, large or long. 



MACROCEPH'ALOfJS, a term 

 sometimes applied to embryos 

 which have the cotyledons 

 very large and consolidated, 

 as in horse-chestnut. Com- 

 pare Macropodous. 



MACROGONlD'itJM (pi. Macrogo- 

 nid'ia), see Macrospore. 



MACROPH'YLLOtlS, having long 

 or large leaves. 



MACRdP'ODOtJS, a term of little 

 importance applied to a leaf 

 having a long petiole, or to an 

 embryo, chiefly in monocoty- 

 ledons, having a large radicle. 



MACROSPORAN'GltJM, a sporan- 

 gium containing macrospores; 

 megasporangium; oosporan- 

 gium. 



MICROSPORE, a female or ar- 

 chegonium - bearing spore in 

 some vascular cryptogams. 

 The macrospores are larger 

 than the male or microspores. 



MACROSPO'ROPHYL, the leaf 

 bearing the macrosporangium 

 in the heterosporous Pterido- 

 phyta. It is the bomologue of 

 the carpel in flowering plants. 



MACROSTY'LOTJS, applied to het- 

 erostylous flowers with long 

 styles and short filaments. See 

 remark under Microstylous. 



MACULATE, spotted or blotched; 

 maculose. 



MACULA'TION, tbe pattern or 

 arrangement of the spots upon 

 a plant. 

 MACULOSE, see Maculate. 

 MAIDEN (Hort.), a term some- 

 times applied to a tree or other 

 plant of one year's growth from 



the bud or graft. Also applied 

 to any plant which has not 

 fruited, and in forestry to a 

 seedling in distinction from a 

 tree which has sprung from an 

 old root or stub. 



MAL'ACOID, mucilaginous. 



MALE, bearing stamens only, 

 staminate; bearing only male 

 organs of whatever kind, or 

 pertaining to individuals 

 which bear them. 



MALE FLOWER, staminate 

 flower. 



MALPlGHlA'gEOIJS HAIRS, stel- 

 late hairs attached by their 

 middle, as in the order Mal- 

 pigbiaceae. 



MALPIG'HlAN CELL§, palisade- 

 like cells in which one or more 

 light lines are present, found 

 iiT the seed-coats of Legu- 

 minosae, Malvaceae, etc. 



mAm'MIFORM, breast-shaped. 



mAmmLL'LA (pi. MammU'lffl), a 

 small nipple or teat-like promi- 

 nence, as on some pollen-grains. 

 More short and obtuse tban 

 Papilla. The term is some- 

 times applied to the apex of 

 the nucleus of an ovule. 



MAM'MILLATE, nipple-shaped, 

 or bearing mammillae. Com- 

 pare Papillate. 



MAM'MlLLATilD, bearing mam- 

 millae. 



MAM'MOSE, breast - shaped, or 

 bearing breast-shaped promi- 

 nences. 



MAN'ICATE, having a coating of 

 entangled bairs. which may be 

 removed entire. Compare 

 Floccose and Pannose. 



MANU'BRltfM (pi. Manu'brla), 

 a cylindrical cell which pro- 

 jects inward from the centre 

 of each of the eight shields 

 composing the wall of the glob- 

 ule in Characeae. The manu- 

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