Amathiuni 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Anastates 



Amath'ium (apados, sandy soil), a 

 sand-hill formation ; amathoph'llus 

 (0tX^w, I love), dwelling on sand- 

 hills or sandy plains ; Amathophy'ta 

 (<t>vrbv, a plant), sand-plain plants ; 

 amath'ocolus (i.e. = amath'ocola), 

 sandy duelling plants (Clement*). 



Am'ber, the English name of SUC- 

 CINITE. 



Ambro'sia, the mycelial or oidial 

 stage of a Fungus, probably of 

 some Ascomycete, found in the bur- 

 rows of some beetles in fruit-trees, 

 and believed to be used as food. 



Amentiflo'rae (flos, Jloris, a flower), 

 wind - fertilized, catkin - bearing 

 plants, as the hazel or willow 

 (Delpino). 



Am'idases ( + AMIDE), enzymes occur- 

 ring in the mycelium of Aspergillus, 

 which split off ammonia from urea, 

 etc.j but are not proteolytic 

 (Shibata) ; am'inoid (eUos, resem- 

 blance), used by Kerner for those 

 scents which have an amine as 

 their foundation, and diffuse into 

 the air, such as the hawthorn and 

 elder. 



Am'me (Ger., nurse), cf. TROPHO-. 



Ammoch'tnium (a/i^tos, sand, 6xOy> 

 bank), a sand-bank formation ; 

 ammochthoph'ilus (<j>i\tu t I love), 

 plant dwelling on sand-banks ; 

 Ammocnthophy'ta ((pvrbv, a plant), 

 plants of sand-banks (Clements). 



Am'pelid (a/tTreXos, a vine), used by 

 J. Smith for any climbing plant ; 

 Ampelog'rapMst (ypd<f>u, I write), 

 a writer on vines. 



amphicoe'lous (/totXos, hollow), con- 

 cave on both sides (Heinig) ; Am- 

 phicot'yly, cf. AMPHISYNCOTYLY ; 

 amphicri'bral (cribrum, asieve), ap- 

 plied to a hadrocentric bundle 

 (Haberlandt) ; Amphigen'esis (yeve- 

 <ris, beginning); amphige'al, ap- 

 plied to a plant which bears 

 dimorphic flowers, the upper from 

 the stem, the lower from the 

 root or root-stock, as Kraschen- 

 ninikowia ; Ampnig'ony (76^05, 

 offspring), sexual reproduction 

 (Haeckel); Ampnigon'ium, Kerner 's 



term for ARCHEGONIZTM ; Amphi- 

 le'psis (X^ts, a receiving), the 

 ordinary result of fertilization ; 

 cf. MONOLEPSIS (Bateson) ; Amphi- 

 mixis (/<, a mingling), the union 

 of parental characters in the em- 

 bryo (Sargant) ; amphiphlo'ic, ap- 

 plied to the central cylinder of 

 stems, when both external and 

 internal phloem are present ; cf. 

 ECTOPHLOIC (Jeffrey) ; ~ Phyllo- 

 si' phony, when the tubular central 

 cylinder exists with foliar gaps, 

 and without external phloem ; am- 

 phispor'al, amphispor'ic ( + SPORE), 

 relating to an Am'phispore, Carle- 

 ton's name for MESOSPORE ; Am- 

 paisor'us (+ SORUS), a group or 

 patch of AMPHISPORES (Arthur 

 and Holway) ; amphistomat'ic, 

 amphisto'matous ( + STOMA), with 

 stomata on both upper and lower 

 leaf - surfaces ; Amphisyncot'yly 

 ( + COTYLEDON), having cotyledons 

 coalescent in the form of a funnel 

 or trumpet (De Vries) ; shortened 

 to Amphicot'yly ; amphitroph'ic, 

 relating to AMPHITROPHY ; am- 

 phiva'sal (vasa, vessels), used of a 

 leptocentric bundle (Haberlandt). 



Amylaph'ylly ((f>6\\ov, a leaf), the 

 production of starch-leaves ; Amy- 

 losyn'thesis (<rvv0e<ris, composition), 

 the formation of starch (Hick). 



Anab'iont (/3fos, life), perennials, 

 flowering and fruiting many times 

 (A. Braun). 



Anab'olite (dva/3oX7j, something built 

 up, + ite), any product of con- 

 structive metabolism in the plant ; 

 cf. KATABOLITE. 



anaeretlcus (av, without, ai/>eTt/c6s, 

 power of choosing), applied by C. 

 Schimper to an abnormal arrange- 

 ment of the leaves in single rows 

 on the axis, as happens in torsion, 

 etc. 



Anaphyto'sis, the building up of 

 plant structure by ANAPHYTES. 



Anast'ates, pi. (d^ctcrraros, removed), 

 the products of anabolic or ascend- 

 ing conversion of food-material 

 into protoplasm {Parker). 



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