Melampyrino 



Mericarp 



Melampy'rine, Melampy'rite, a sub- 

 stance occurring in Melampyrum 

 nemorosum, Linn., the same as 

 DULCITE. 



Mel'anism (/.'.e\a?, black), a disease 

 producing blackness ; melanos- 

 perm'ous (arirep/j-a, seed), having 

 dark - coloured seeds or spores ; 

 melanochlor'us (xXw/aos, pale green), 

 blackish green, atrovirens ; melano- 

 phyl'lus (0i/\\o/, a leaf), having 

 leaves of a dark colour. 



melastoma'ceous, resembling or per- 

 taining to those plants of which 

 the genus Melastoma is the type. 



Melez'itose (Fr., meleze, larch), a 

 sugar from the larch. 



Melib'iase (mel, honey), a synonym 

 of RAFFINASE. 



me'linus (/^\t/os, pertaining to 

 quinces), like quinces, or quince- 

 coloured. 



Mel'itose (mel, honey), sugar from 

 Eucalyptus " Manna," produced in 

 Tasmania; also spelled Mel'itoze, 

 a synonym of RAFFINOSE ; Mel'i- 

 zitase, an enzyme present in 

 Sterigmatocystis nigra Sacc. ; Mel'i- 

 zitose, a sugar existing in Alhagi 

 Maurorum, Linn. 



Mellaro'se (Ital.), the name of a 

 variety of the orange in which the 

 carpellary whorl is multiplied, pro- 

 ducing an appearance of prolifica- 

 tion (Masters). 



mel'leus (Lat., pertaining to honey), 

 (1) with the taste or smell of 

 honey ; (2) honey- coloured. 



Mel'ligo (Lat., honey-like juice), used 

 for "Honey-dew," the exudation 

 of Aphides. 



mel'linus (mel, mellis, honey), the 

 colour of new honey. 



Melittaeph'ilae (/xAtrra, a bee, <tXew, 

 I love), flowers which are adapted 

 for fertilisation by the larger bees ; 

 the colour and scent are attractive 

 to man also (H. Mueller). 



Melonlda,t Melonid'mm J (w\ov, an 

 apple, elSos, like), an inferior, 

 many -celled fruit, as an apple; 

 melo'niform (forma, shape), me- 

 lon-shaped ; irregularly spherical 



with projecting ribs as in Melo- 

 cactus. 



Mem'ber, any part of a plant regarded 

 with reference to its form and 

 position. 



membrana'ceous, -ceus (Lat.), mem'- 

 branous, thin and semi-trans- 

 parent, like a fine membrane, as 

 the leaves of Mosses ; Mexn'brane, 

 Membra' na (Lat. ), a delicate pellicle 

 of homogeneous tissue ; Membra'na, 

 gongylifera, the hymenium of 

 Fungi ; mem'branous Lay'er ; ~ 

 mycelium, interwoven hyphae 

 forming a layer ; membranogen'ic 

 (ycvos, race), productive of a mem- 

 brane ; Membra'nula,! the indusium 

 of Ferns. 



memnon'ius (Lat. from Afemnori), 

 brownish black, nearly as dark 

 as piceus. 



Meneblaste'ma (rivy, moon = a month, 

 /SXdoT^a, a sprout), Minks's term 

 for the soredia of Lichens. 



menisca'tus (/ji-qvio-Kos, a crescent), "a 

 cylinder bent into half a circle " 

 (Lindley) ; menis'coid, meniscoi'- 

 deus (eldos, like), thin and concavo- 

 convex, like a watch-glass. 



Menisperm'ine, an alkaloid from the 

 genus Menispermum. 



menstrua'lis, men'struus (Lat.), last- 

 ing for a month or so ; cf. BIMES- 



TRIS, TRIMESTRIS. 



Menta'gra (Lat. an eruption on the 

 chin) parasit'ica = SYCOSIS; Men- 

 ta'graphyte (<t>vrct>, a plant), the 

 Fungus supposed to cause the 

 disease Mentagra or Sycosis. 



Men'tum (Lat. the chin), an extension 

 of the foot of the column in some 

 Orchids, in the shape of a projec- 

 tion in front of the flower. 



Merench'yma (fitpos, a part, (yx v / JLa > 

 an infusion), spherical cellular 

 tissue ; ~ Cells, unpitted cells 

 in the pith of trees, with inter- 

 cellular spaces, and much elon- 

 gated radially ; cf. PALISADE CELLSJ 

 Mer'icarp, Mericar'pium (/ca/>7rds, 

 fruit), a portion of a fruit which 

 splits away as a perfect fruit ; as 

 the two carpels in Umbelliferae. 



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