herborize 



Heteroecism 



for the collection of plants ; herb'' 

 orize, to botanize. 



Hercog'amy (2/wros, a fence, yd/j,o$, 

 marriage), applied to hermaphro- 

 dite flowers, when some structural 

 peculiarity prevents self-fertiliza- 

 tion, requiring insect-visitation ; 

 adj. hercogam'ic, herkogam'ic, her- 

 cog'amous, -mus. 



hennapn'rodite, hermaphrodi'tus (Lat. 

 having the characters of both sexes), 

 the stamens and pistils in the same 

 flower. 



Heredity (here'ditas, heirship), pos- 

 session by inheritance, of certain 

 qualities or structures; bisex'ual ~ , 

 unisex'ual ~, having the qualities 

 of both, or of one parent only trans- 

 mitted. 



Her'pes (epirw, a cutaneous eruption) 

 tonsu'rans (Lat., shaving), ring- 

 worm, a disease of the skin as- 

 cribed to Trichophyton tonsurans, 

 Malm. 



Her'poblast (epiru, I creep, /3Xa<rrds, a 

 shoot), Cramer's term for a con- 

 fer void prothallium lying flat on 

 its substratum. 



Hesperid'ram (from the golden fruit 

 of the garden of the Hesperides), 

 Desvaux's term for a fruit, such 

 as the orange, a superior, poly- 

 carpellary, syncarpous berry, pulpy 

 within, and externally covered with 

 a tough rind ; AURANTIUM of De 

 Candolle. 



Hetae'rio (^rcupeta, a brotherhood), 

 a collection of distinct indehiscent 

 carpels produced by a single flower, 

 dry or fleshy, as in the Strawberry, 

 Buttercup, Raspberry ; usually 

 spelled ETAEEIO. 



Heterac'my (fr-e/jos, other, d/c/t?), apex), 

 = DICOGAMY ; neteran'drous (avyp, 

 avdpos, a man), applied to flowers 

 whose stamens vary in size ; Heter- 

 an'dry, the condition described ; 

 Heterauxe'sis (atf^ais, growth), 

 variation in the relative growth 

 of opposite sides of an organ ; 

 heterax'on (awj>, a axle), applied 

 by O. Mueller to a diatom if the 

 transverse axes are unequal; Hetero- 



albumose' ( + ALBUMOSB), Kuhne's 

 term for proteid, phytalbumose; 

 heteroblas'tic (^Xcurrds, a shoot), 

 applied to embryogeny which is 

 indirect, the offspring not similar to 

 the parent, but producing the adult 

 form as an outgrowth, as in Chara; 

 heterocar'pous, -pus (/capTros, fruit), 

 producing more than one kind of 

 fruit; heterocar'picus (fructus), " an 

 inferior fruit " (Lindley ; Hetero- 

 car'py, having two kinds of fruit ; 

 heteroceph'alous, (Ke^aXi), the 

 head), bearing two kinds of head 

 or capitulum ; heterochlamyd'eous, 

 -deus (xXa^i)s, a mantle), when the 

 calyx and corolla clearly differ ; 

 Heterochro'matism (xpw/ia, colour), 

 a change in the colouring or mark- 

 ing of petals ; neterochro'mous, 

 when the florets of the disk in 

 Compositae differ in colour from 

 those of the ray ; heterocis'mal, an 

 ill-contrived version of HETEROECI- 

 ous ; het'erocline, heterocli'nous, 

 nua (K\ivrj, a bed), with the male 

 and female members on separate 

 receptacles. 



het'eroclite, heteroc'litus (^repo/cXiros, 

 varying in declension), anomalous 

 in formation. 



heterocy'clic (crepos, other, KVK\OS, a 

 a circle), used when the floral 

 whorls are heteromerous, not uni- 

 form or isomerous ; Het'erocyst 

 (KV<TTIS, a bag), large inert cells in 

 the filaments of certain Algae, separ- 

 ating contiguous hormogonia ; adj. 

 heterocyst' ous; Heterodi'ody (dioSos, 

 a passage), Van Tieghem's term 

 for the condition of those DIODES 

 which are differentiated into MAC- 

 RODIODES, and MICRODIODES ; of. 

 ISODIODY ; heterod'romous, ~mus 

 (5po/Aos, a course), having spirals of 

 changing directions, as in some 

 tendrils, or phyllotaxis ; Heterod'- 

 romy, with varied spirals; heteroe'- 

 cious, forms which pass through 

 their stages of development on 

 different hosts are so termed ; 

 metoecious is a synonym ; Heter- 

 oe'cism, the condition of a heter- 



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