proxylar 



pseudogyratus 



prox ylar J ( irpo, for, v\ov, wood), 

 capable of forming wood ; Proxyle', 

 Proxylem = PROTOXYLEM ; Prozy'- 

 mogen. ( + ZYMOGEN), a material 

 formed of the chromatin of the 

 nucleus which is extruded into the 

 cytoplasm there becoming zymo- 

 gen (Macallum). 



Prui'na (Lat., hoar-frost) semina'lis, 

 "the spores of certain Fungals " 

 (Lindley) ; pru'inate, pruina'tus, 

 pru'inose, pruino'sus, pru'inous, 

 having a waxy powdery secretion 

 on the surface, a " bloom." 



pruniferous (prunum, a plum, fero, 

 I bear), bearing plums ; pru'nifonn, 

 pruniform'is (forma, shape), plum- 

 shaped ; Pru'nus $ = DRUPE. 



pru'rient, pru'riens (Lat., itching), 

 causing an itching sensation. 



psammoph'ilous (^d/i/xos, sand, 0i\<?u>, 

 I love), sand-loving, as the vege- 

 tation of dunes; Psam'mophyte 

 ((fivrov, a plant), a sand-loving 

 plant, as dune plants. 



pseudacran'thic (^eu5?)s, false, + 

 ACRANTHIC), applied to flowers 

 from dichasial shoots which are 

 apparently terminal (K. Schu- 

 mann) ; Pseud-an'nual ( + ANNUAL), 

 an herbaceous plant which hiber- 

 nates as a tuber or bulb (L. H. 

 Bailey); Pseudan'nulus (+ ANNU- 

 LUS), an apparent annulus of 

 specialized cells, exterior to the 

 perislome in Mosses ; pseudan'thic 

 (&vdos, a flower), a flower which 

 simulates a simple flower, but is 

 composed of more than a single 

 axis, with subsidiary flowers (Del- 

 pino) ; Pseudan'this, the state in 

 question ; Pseudax'is ( + Axis) = 

 SYMPODIUM ; pseudhomonym'ic ( + 

 Homonym), used by F. N. Williams 

 for a partial homonomy, as Oas- 

 trolychnis and Gastrosilene ; Pseu- 

 din'ulin ( + INULIN), a subordinate 

 constituent of inulin (Tancret) ; 

 pseudobiator'ine, falsely biatorine, 

 having an apothecium without a 

 conspicuous thalline margin ; Pseu'- 

 dobulb ( + BULB), a thickened and 

 bulb-like internode in Orchids, a 



corm; Pseudobul'bil ( + BULBIL), a 

 growth from the roots of Acriopsis 

 javanica, Reinw. , composed of two 

 internodes, and bearing leaves at 

 the apex ; Pseudo capillitium ( + 

 CAPILLITIUM), Lister's term for a 

 structure in Enteridium, consisting 

 of the perforated walls of the 

 component sporangia ; Pseu'do- 

 carp, Pseudocar'pium, Pseudocar'pua 

 (Kapirbs, fruit), (1) a fruit with its 

 accompanying parts, as a straw- 

 berry ; (2) = GALBULUS (Henslow) ; 

 Pseudocellulose ( + CELLULOSE), 

 see CELLULOSE ; Pseudocephalo'- 

 dium (+ CEPHALODIUM), a growth 

 formed in the protothallus by a 

 germinating hypha investing an 

 algal colony of some other type 

 than the normal gonidia of the 

 Lichen (Forsell) ; Pseudocil'ium 

 (cilium, an eyelash), a motionless 

 whip-like body, proceeding in pairs 

 from each cell of Apiocystis Brauni- 

 ana, Naeg. (Correns) ; pseudo- 

 cos'tate, pseudocosta'tus (costatus, 

 ribbed), false-ribbed, as where a 

 marginal vein is formed by con- 

 fluence of the true veins ; Pseudo- 

 cotyle'don (+ COTYLEDON) = PRO- 

 EMBRYO ; Pseudodys'tropy (5ucr = 

 bad, rpoirri, a turning), when eutro- 

 pous insects gain access to honey 

 by secondary means, as when cer- 

 tain bees bore through to the 

 nectaries, instead of entering 

 by the opening of the flower 

 (Loew) ; Psendoe'p'iphyte (+ EPI- 

 PHYTE), a plant whose stems die 

 away at the base, and the upper 

 part derives its nourishment from 

 its own aerial roots, as Aroids 

 (Went); Pseu'do-fecunda'tion ( + 

 FECUNDATION), two nuclei of four 

 combine to form the egg, the other 

 two form the albumen (Guignard) ; 

 Pseudog'amy (ydpos, marriage), 

 parthenogenetic fruiting, as polli- 

 nation without impregnation of 

 ovules ; pseudogyra'tus (yvp&s, 

 curved), falsely ringed, as when 

 the annulus is confined to the 

 vertex of the sporangium in Ferns j 



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