allotropous 



ambiparous 



loosing), applied to the mode in 

 which natural diastase acts on the 

 endosperm of the date, and the 

 changes thereby caused. 



allot'ropous (aXXos, another, TPOTTTJ, a 

 turn), MacLeod's term for plants 

 having stores of honey open to all 

 insect- visitors ; Allot'ropy, other- 

 wise turned or formed. 



alpes'trine, alpes'tris, strictly ap- 

 plicable to plants growing above 

 the limits of forest growth, on the 

 Alp, but practically synonymous 

 with Alpine ; alpes'ter (Lat. ) is used 

 by some botanists for the more usual 

 form. 



alphitomor'phous (&\<f>iToi>, pearl 

 barley, nop<f>r], form), like barley- 

 meal ; applied to certain fungi. 



alp'igene (alpig'ena, bred in the Alps) 

 = alpine. 



alp'ine, alpi'nus, properly denoting 

 plants belonging to the Alps (cUpes, 

 mountains), but frequently used in 

 a wider sense, embracing alpestrine, 

 as well as the higher situated plants. 



alsina'ceous (Alsine, Tourn. + CEOUS), 

 used of a petal having a short, but 

 distinct claw. 



alter'nate, alter'nus ; altema'tus, 

 alter'nans, (1) placed on opposite 

 sides of the stem on a different line ; 

 (2) when between other bodies of 

 the same or different whorls, as in 

 Umbelliferae, where the stamens are 

 alternate with the petals, that is, 

 between them; alternipin'nate, or 

 altern'ately-pin'nate, when the 

 leaflets of a pinnate leaf are not 

 exactly opposite each other ; Alter- 

 na'tion, Alterna'tio, the fact of being 

 alternate, ~ of Generations, the 

 reproduction by organisms which 

 do not precisely resemble the parent, 

 but the grand-parent, applied espe- 

 cially to the regular succession of 

 sexual and asexual phases, as in 

 Ferns, etc. ; alternative, alternati'- 

 vus, in aestivation when the peri- 

 anth segments are in two rows, and 

 the inner so covered by the outer, 

 that each exterior member overlaps 

 the half of two interior members. 



Al'theine, a principle from the marsh- 

 mallow, Althaea, Tourn., analogous 

 to Asparagin. 



Altitude, Altitu'do(L&t. height), used 

 to specify the height above the sea 

 of the vegetation in question. 



aluta'ceous, aluta'cem (aluta, soft 

 leather + CEOUS), (1) the colour of 

 buff leather, or light tan ; {2) 

 leathery in texture, coriaceous. 



Alve'ola (alveolus, a hollow vessel), 

 pi. Alveolae ; cavities on the sur- 

 face, as the pits on the receptacle 

 of many Compositae, honey-combed ; 

 (2) the pores of such Fungi as 

 Poly poms ; (3) the perithecia of 

 certain other Fungi ; Alve'oli, the 

 pit-like markings on the valves of 

 many Diatomaceae ; Alve'olar- 

 plasma (ir\6.fffj.a, modelled), term 

 used by Strasburger in place of 

 TROPHOPLASM, granular protoplasm ; 

 al'veolate, alveola'tus, alveola'ris, 

 marked as though honey combed. 



Amadou' (Fr. ), ( 1 ) the substance of cer- 

 tain Fungi used as tinder, as Poly- 

 porusfomentarius, Fr. ; (2) as styptic 

 when from the pubescence of the 

 Phanerogam Melastoma hirta, Linn. 



Amalthe'a (fywt, together, dX^w, I 

 increase), used by Desvaux for an 

 aggregation of dry fruits within a 

 calyx which does not become fleshy, 

 as Alchemilla, and Sanguisorba. 



Aman'itin (from Amanita, Dill.), (1) 

 the red pigment of the pileus of 

 the Fly-Agaric, (2) the poisonous 

 alkaloid from the same, also 

 written Aman'itine. 



ambig'enus (ambo, both, genus, race), 

 applied to a perianth whose ex- 

 terior is calycine, and interior 

 corolline, as Nymphaea. 



ambiguiflor'us (ambiguus, doubtful, 

 /os, floris, flower), applied by 

 Cassini to flowers of an indeterm- 

 inate form ; ambig-'uous, (1) said of 

 an organ when its origin is un- 

 certain, thus the dissepiments of an 

 orange may belong to the axis or 

 the paries ; (2) of a plant when its 

 position is doubtful. 



ambip'arous, -rus, (ambo, both ; pario t 



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