textile 



theciger 



textile, tex f tttis(La,t., woven), used for 

 weaving, 



Tex'ture, Textu'ra (Lat., a web), 

 applied by Starback to hyphal 

 structures in Discomycetes, thus : 

 ~ epidermoi'dea, the walls of 

 hyphae more or less confluent ; <~ 

 globo'sa, when the cells are nearly 

 isodiametric, the separate hyphae 

 not distinguishable ; ~ intrica'ta, 

 the hyphae running in various direc- 

 tions, with walls not coalescent ; 

 ~ ob'lita, hyphae nearly parallel, 

 and having small cavities with 

 thickened walls; ~ porrec'ta, 

 hyphae with large cavities and no 

 thickened walls ; ~ prismat'ica, 

 cells not isodiametric, hyphae not 

 distinguishable. 



thalamiflor'al, thalamiflor'ous (0ciXa- 

 /ios, a bed-chamber, flos, floris, a 

 flower), when the parts of the 

 flowers are hypogynous, separately 

 inserted on the thalamus ; Thala- 

 miflor'ae, a group of Phanerogams 

 so distinguished ; Thala'mium, ( 1 ) " a 

 hollow case containing spores iu 

 Algals " ; (2) " the disk or Lamina 

 prolifera in Lichens" ; (3) " a form 

 of the hymenium in Fungals " (all 

 from Lindley) ; Thal'amus, the re- 

 ceptacle of the flower, the torus. 



thalas'sinus, thalas'sicus (Lat., from 

 ddXaorva, the sea), sea-green ; Thal- 

 as'sophyte (^VTOV, a plant), a marine 

 Alga. 



Thallid'ium (0aXXos, a sprout), a 

 vegetative reproductive body, 

 especially amongst Thallophytes 

 and Muscineae (Kerner) ; thal'line, 

 thalli'nus, tnallo'dal, thallo'dic, 

 thallo'des, thaTlose, pertaining to a 

 thallus ; Thallogams, term used by 

 Focke for Vascular Cryptogams ; 

 Thallog'amae (yd-nos, marriage), 

 Ardissone's term for Algae ; ThaT- 

 logen (yevos, race, offspring), a 

 synonym of THALLOPHYTE ; thaT- 

 loid (eT5os, resemblance), having 

 the nature or form of a thallus ; 

 applied to Hepaticae in which the 

 vegetative body is not a leafy stem, 

 bsMarchantia ; thalloi'dal (Crozier) 



is a synonym ; Thal'lome, athallus- 

 like growth ; cf. CAULOME ; ThaT- 

 lophyte (<t>vTov, a plant), a plant 

 whose growth is thalloid, no clear 

 distinction of leaf or axis ; Thal'- 

 lus, pi. Thalli, (1) a vegetative 

 body without differentiation into 

 stem and leaf ; in Fungi the whole of 

 the body which does not serve for 

 reproduction ; (2) Goebel's term for 

 the organ of attachment in Ter- 

 niola, a genus of Podostomaceae, 

 composed of coalesced dorsiventral 

 branches ; ~ Gonidia, the gonidia 

 in the thallus of a Lichen ; the 

 Lichen thallus is subdivided into, 

 ~ lepo'des, crustaceous; ~ pla'- 

 codes, foliaceous ; -* thamno'des, 

 fruticose. 



Tham'nium J (ddfivos, a shrub), the 

 bushy thallus of such Lichens as 

 Cladonia rangiferina, Hoffm. ; tham- 

 noblas'tus (/SXao-ros, a bud), used 

 by Koerber for a fruticose Lichen. 



Theba'ine (from Thebes, where opium 

 was much employed), one of the 

 crystallized alkaloids occurring in 

 the opium poppy. 



The'ca (6-fiKij, a case), (1) the spor- 

 angium of a Fern ; (2) the capsule 

 of a Moss; (3):J: an anther; (4) 

 used by Necker for the fruit of 

 Myrtaceae; (5)J "a cell of any 

 sort" (Lindley); (6) = Ascus ; 

 (7) used by Vines for the loculua 

 of an anther ; (8) "a hollow space 

 in the pericarp formed by doubling 

 of the endocarp " (Gray) ; The'ea- 

 phore (0op^w, I carry), the stipe of 

 a carpel, homologous with the 

 petiole ; The'caspore (ffiropcL, a 

 seed), = ASCOSPOBE ; thecaspor'- 

 ous, used of Fungi which have 

 the spores in Asci (Stormonth) ; 

 theca'tus, bearing a theca ; the'cial, 

 possessing thecae or pertaining to 

 them ; ~ Al'gae, the hymenial 

 gonidia of Lichens ; Thecid'ion, 

 Thecid'ium = ACHENE ; thecif - 

 erous (fero, I bear), bearing thecae 

 or asci ; tlie'ciger, thecig'erus (gero, I 

 bear), theca-bearing, applied to the 

 hymenium of Fungi, and branches 



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