eroded 



Eugamophyta 



ero'ded, ero'se, ero'sus (Lat. gnawed), 

 as though bitten or gnawed. 



erost'rate, erostra'tus, erost'ris (Lat.), 

 beakless. 



Error, probable, see DEVIATION. 



Ersatzfag'ern, Sanio = SUBSTITUTE 

 FIBRES, intermediate in form 

 between woody fibres and 

 parenchyma. 



erubesc'ens (Lat. blushing), blush 

 red. 



emcaeform'is (eruca, a caterpillar, 

 forma, shape), used for such Lichen 

 spores as those of Graphis, which 

 are long, septate, blunted at the 

 extremities,, and in shape suggest a 

 short caterpillar. 



erump'ent, erump'ens (Lat. breaking 

 through), prominent as though 

 bursting through the epidermis. 



Er'ythrism (tpvOpos, red), a red colour 

 in flowers usually white, the re- 

 verse of albinism ; Er'ytnrophyll 

 (0i/XXov, a leaf), Berzelius's term 

 for the red colouring of leaves ; 

 erythropn'ilous (0Xe'w, I love), 

 used of nuclei which take up 

 red stains in preference to blue ; 

 Erythrost'omum J (oro/m, the 

 mouth), Desvaux's word for 

 ETAERIO; Er'ytnrozym ($VM, yeast), 

 an enzyme from the root of the 

 madder which acts on glucosides. 



-escens, a Latin suffix = ish, thus 

 rub-escens = redd-ish. 



es'culent (esculentus, fit for eating), 

 suitable for human food. 



Es'culin, = AESCULIN. 



Espalier, a fruit tree trained lattice- 

 fashion, in one plane, but not at- 

 tached to a wall. 



esep'tate (e, priv. .septum, a partition), 

 destitute of septa. 



esoteric (eo-corepos, inner), arising 

 from inside the organism. 



espatha'ceus (e, priv., + SPATHA, 

 -aceus), wanting a spathe ; Lindley 

 gives the form espatha'tus J 



essen'tial (essentia, the being of any- 

 thing), the necessary constituent of 

 an existing object ; ~ Char'acter, 

 the distinguishing note by which a 

 form differs from its allies, diag- 



nostic character ; ~ Or'gans, those 

 which are absolutely necessary, 

 stamens and pistils. 



esti'val = AESTIVAL ; e'stivate = 

 AESTIVATE; Estiva'tion = AESTI- 

 VATION. 



Etae'rio, Etairium (ercupefo, com- 

 panionship), an aggregate fruit 

 composed of achenes or drupes, as 

 in Ranunculus, the Strawberry, 

 and Blackberry ; adj. etairiona'ris, 

 etairio'neus. 



e'tiolated, etiola'tus (Fr. etiole", drawn 

 out), lengthened or deprived of 

 colour by absence of light ; Etiola'- 

 tlon, the condition of being 

 blanched ; E'tiolin, the yellow- 

 colouring matter of blanched plants, 

 chlorophyll which has not acquired 

 its green colour (Pringsheim). 



E'tiology = AETIOLOGY. 



etrabecula'tus (e, priv., trabecula, a 

 little beam), not cross-barred ; when 

 the peristome teeth of Mosses want 

 cross-connections. 



eu- (e5, well), in Greek compounds 

 = true ; often used in sectional 

 names, with a restricted meaning ; 

 euacranth'ic (a/c/>os, apex, avtfos, 

 flower), truly terminal ; ~ Flow'er, 

 a terminal flower which springs 

 immediately from the apex of a 

 shoot which has produced leaves 

 or other lateral structures ; cf. 

 PSEUDACRANTHIC ; euanth'ic, used 

 by Delpino to denote a mono- 

 thalamic flower, the reverse being 

 PSEUDANTHIC ; Eucar'otin ( + CARO- 

 TIN), Zopf employs this to mark the 

 yellow carotin as distinct from 

 the red ; eucarp'ic (/capTroy, fruit), 

 applied to certain Algae where 

 part only of the body of the plant 

 goes to form the sporangium, in 

 contrast to HOLOCARPIC ; eucy'clic 

 (KIJK\OS, a circle), when flowers are 

 composed of alternate isomerous 

 whorls ; Eugam'ophyte (7<i/uos, 

 marriage, 0uro, a plant), term 

 proposed by C. Macmillan for such 

 Cryptogams as Oedogonium, Mar- 

 chantia, Sphagnum, "which sup- 

 port dependent sporophytes*" 



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