Ecballium 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Endemism 



Ecbal'lium, or Ecbal'lion (e/c/3<XXo>, I 

 throw out), succession of plants 

 after timber felling (Clements), 



Ece'sis, see OEcESis. 



EcM'nops-fluorescine, Ecninops'eln, 

 and Echinops'ine, alkaloids found 

 in Echinopa JRitro (Greshoff). 



ecil'iate ( + CILIUM), without cilia. 



E'cotone, see CECOTONB. 



Ectauxe'sis (atifyvis, growth), the 

 growth of an organ outwards 

 through the substance of the parent 

 shoot (Weisse). 



ectophlo'lc, the condition of stems 

 when the internal phloem is want- 

 ing ; cf. AMPHIPHLOIC (Jeffrey) ; 

 Ectospor'ium, the outer layer of a 

 spore in bacteria (Miihlschegel) ; 

 ectotrop'ic ; (2) the course of the 

 pollen- tube in acrogamic fertiliza- 

 tion, by the micropyle to the 

 embryo-sac (Pirotta and Longo). 



Ec'topy (tKT6irios, displaced), the 

 abnormal position of an organ. 



eclaph'ic (5a0os, the ground), 

 A. F. W. Schimper's term for the 

 influence of the soil on the plants 

 growing upon it; Edaph'ophytes 

 (<f>vrov, a plant), plants which root 

 in the earth, with assimilation 

 organs in the air above it ; normal 

 plants, or EUPHYTES (Schroter). 



Edob'oles, -ae (5o>, I eat, /SoXr;, a 

 throw), distribution by turgescence 

 of fruits or sporangia (Clements). 



eflagellif erous ( + FLAGELLUM, 

 fero, I bear), destitute of flagella ; 

 efpv'eolate (fovea, a pit), "smooth, 

 without pits or depressions " 

 (Heinig) ; the form "eforeolate" 

 is a press-error. 



Egg-sac, the mesochite and endo- 

 chite of Fucaceae, the membranes 

 which enclose the egg (Farmer and 

 Williams). 



Elae'oplasts, oil-drops, usually applied 

 to the chromatophores in Diatoms, 

 sometimes free ; they are particu- 

 larised as, LlBROPLASTS, PLACO- 



PLASTS, and SPARSIOPLASTS (Mere- 

 schkowsky) ; Elaioplank'tpn ( + 

 PLANKTON), plankton floating by 

 means of fatty matters (Forel). 



Elate'rium, (2) the dried juice of the 

 wild cucumber, Elaterium. 



Elat'erophore (0o/>^w, I carry), thready 

 organs which bear the elaters in 

 certain Hepaticae. 



Electrot'onus (fjKfKrpov, amber rbvos, 

 stress), a latent period of electric 

 stress (Hoermaun) ; Electrop'ism 

 or Electrotrop'ism (Tptiiros, direc- 

 tion), the inflection of roots or 

 shoots towards the cathode (Mac- 

 dougal) ; Electrotax'is (rais, order), 

 arrangement induced by electric 

 currents. 



eleutherotep'alous ( + TEPAL), having 

 free tepals (Pax). 



Emascula'tion, in plants, the re- 

 moval of the stamens before they 

 dehisce,from hermaphrodite flowers 

 previous to artificial hybridization. 



Em'bryo-cord, in Hydnora, a single 

 row of flattened cells connecting 

 the embryo with the outer surface 

 of the albumen (Solms-Laubach) ; 

 Embryoblas'tanon (/SXaoros, a bud), 

 Miquel's term for the suspensor 

 in Cycads ; embryonic Appen'dage, 

 the apical portion of the suspensor 

 in grasses (Vines) ; embryophyt'ic, 

 relating to EMBRYOPHYTA. 



emprosthod'romous (fyirpoffdev, in 

 front, 5p6jj.os, a course), used of a 

 flower when the genetic spiral on 

 its shortest way from the bract to 

 the outermost perianth- segment 

 passes outside the flower, farthest 

 from the axis. 



En'alid (&aXios, marine), Warming's 

 term for such plants as Zostera, 

 Halophila, and other marine sub- 

 mersed Phanerogams. 



cnantiosty'lous (tvavrlos, opposite, + 

 STYLE), flowers whose styles are 

 protruded right or left of the axis, 

 with the stamens opposite. 



Enaurium (frai/Xos, a water course), 

 a "sanddraw formation"; enau- 

 loph'ilus) <f>i\4w, I love), dwelling in 

 such places ; Enaulophy'ta (<J>VTOV, 

 a plant), plants inhabiting ' ' sand- 

 draws " (Clements). 



Ende'mism, the condition of endemic 

 plants. 



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