Elaterium 



embryonal 



Elate'rium (Aar^nos, driving away) 



= COCCUM. 



ela'tus (Lat., exalted), tall, lofty. 



electri'nus(^Xe/cr/)oj>, amber), yellowish 

 amber coloured ; Electrol'ysis (Xftri j, 

 a loosing), analysis by electric force, 

 adj. electrolytic ; electrotrop'ic 

 (rpoTros, direction), actuated by 

 electric force ; Elec'tropism, the 

 electric impulse which governs 

 certain plant-functions. 



Element'ary Or'gans, the constituents 

 of cellular and vascular tissue. 



eleutheran'tlieroua (eXetfflepoj, free, 

 + ANTHER), having the anthers 

 distinct, not united ; eleuthero- 

 pet'alous (irtTaXov, a flower-leaf), 

 polypetalous, having free petals, 

 choripetalous ; eleutherophyll'ous 

 (0tfXXoi>, a leaf), separate leaved ; 

 eleutherosep'alous ( + SEPALUM) 

 with distinct sepals. 



eleva'ted, applied to a Lichen when 

 raised above the surface of its 

 matrix. 



Ell, a measure variously understood, 

 the English ell being 45 inches, the 

 French ell 54 inches. 



Elleb'orin, an acrid resin from Eranthis 

 hyemcdis, Salisb. formerly con- 

 sidered a species of Helleborus. 



ellip'soid, ellipsoi'dal, ellipsoida'lis 

 (eXXeti/as, a falling short, etSos, 

 like), an elliptic solid, sometimes 

 employed for elliptic ; ellip'tic, 

 ellip'tical, dlip'ticus, shaped like 

 an ellipse, oblong with regularly 

 rounded ends. 



Elitric'ulus = ELYTRICULUS. 



eloc'ular, elocida'ris (e, priv. locidus, 

 a cell), unilocular. 



Elonga'tion, Elonga'tio (dongo, I 

 lengthen), remarkable for length 

 in comparison with its breadth ; 

 elonga'ted, elonga'tm (drawn out in 

 length). 



Elytric'ulus (tKvrpov, a covering), 

 Necker's term for a floret in Com- 

 positae ; ely'triform (forma, shape), 

 resembling the wing-case of a beetle 

 (Crozier). 



emar'cid, emar'ddua (emarcesco, I 

 wither), flaccid, withered. 



emar'ginate emargina'tus (emargino, 

 to deprive of its edge), having a 

 notch cut out, usually at the ex- 

 tremity ; Emarginatu'ra (Lat. ), 

 the notch at the apex of an 

 emarginate leaf. 



Em' bolus (/ijSoXos, a pump piston), a 

 plug, a process which projects 

 downwards from the upper part of 

 the cavity of the ovary of Armeria, 

 and closes the foramen of the 

 ovule. 



emboss'ed, umbonate, having a slight 

 central nodule. 



emora'cing, clasping by the base, 

 amplectant. 



Em'bryo, Em'bryon (fyppvov, a foetus), 

 the rudimentary plant formed in a 

 seed or within the archegonium of 

 Cryptogams; ~ Buds, "spheroidal 

 solid bodies, of unknown origin, re- 

 sembling woody nodules formed in 

 the bark of trees, and capable of 

 extending into branches " (Lind- 

 ley) ; ~ CeU=Oosphere ; ~Nod'ule, 

 the same as EMBRYO BUDS : ~ Sac, 

 the cell in the ovule in which the 

 embryo is formed, also by some 

 termed the macrospore ; fixed ~ , 

 a leaf -bud ; embryogen'ic (ywvdu, 

 I bring forth), belonging to the 

 development of the embryo; ~> 

 Bod'ies, in Mucorini, naked masses 

 of protoplasm apparently derived 

 from the nuclei, at each end of the 

 zygospore, ultimately fusing to- 

 gether, becoming ^ Spheres, then 

 surround themselves with a double 

 cell-wall, and finally become EM- 

 BRYONIC SPHERES (Le"ger) ; Embryo- 

 g / eny, formation of the embryo ; 

 direct ~, when a spore gives rise 

 to an embryo resembling the adult 

 form ; heteroblast'ic - , when the 

 embryo differs widely from the 

 adult form it is not borne direct, 

 but as a lateral outgrowth ; ho'lo- 

 blastic ~ , in which the whole of the 

 ovum takes part ; ho'inoblast'ic ^ , = 

 DIRECT <~ ; in' direct ~ = HETERO- 

 BLASTIC -~ ; meroblast'ic, when 

 only a portion of the ovum takes 

 part in the development ; embry'o- 



