Geitonosperm 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Grandmother Axis 



bouring flowers (Kerner); Geit'o- 

 nosperm, a plant whose embryos 

 arise by geitonogamy, and are not 

 parthenogenetic, three terms due 

 to MacMillan. 



Gem'maeconn (gemma, a bud, + 

 CORM), J. Smith's term for a bud- 

 corm, applied to herbaceous plants 

 with a root-crown which increases 

 by side-buds ; Gemma'tion, add, 

 (3) budding, as in the multiplica- 

 tion of yeast (Huxley) ; Gexn- 

 mid'ium = TETRASPORE. 



Genepist'asis (ytvos, offspring, 

 eirl<TTa<ri.s, a halt), graduated evolu- 

 tion, by the persistence of certain 

 individuals at a definite lower 

 grade, the remainder advancing 

 farther in modification (Eimer). 



Genic'ulum, (2) the junction of the 

 articuli of Coralline Algae, which 

 is destitute of crustation. 



Gennylang'ium (yewdu, I beget, ti\ij 

 = MATERIA, dyyeiov, a vessel) 

 Radlkofer's term for ANTHEB; 

 Gennylei'on (fj'ia, = food) = ANTHER- 

 IDIUM ; Gennylozo'id (fwov, an 

 animal, eI5o$, resemblance) = 

 SPERMATOZOON. 



gentia'neous, resembling or akin to 

 the genus Gentiana ; Gent'ianose, a 

 sugar from Gentiana lutea, occur- 

 ring with saccharose. 



Geob'ion (/3tos, life), plant associations 

 of the land, as distinct from water 

 (Forel) ; Geocar'py (Kapir&s, fruit), 

 the subterraneous ripening of 

 fruits, which have developed from 

 a flower above ground ; Geoper- 

 cep'tion = GEOAESTHESIA ; geo- 

 ph'ilous,-ws (0tXew, I love), (2) land- 

 loving, terrestrial ; Geophy'ta 

 (0UTOJ/, a plant), land plants ; 

 Geophy'tia, land plant formations 

 (Clements) ; geotac'tic, relating to 

 GEOTAXIS ; Geot'ropism, la'teral, 

 curving horizontally, as in twining 

 stems (Macdougal). 



gerania'ceous, resembling or allied 

 to Geranium. 



Germ-disc, ~ - fil'ament, ~ plants, 

 stages in the life of Hepaticae. 

 (Goebel). 



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gibbo'sus (Lat.) = GIBBEROSUS. 

 Gigant'ism, unusual size ; opposed to 



NANISM. 

 gin'glymoid (7177X11/405, a hinge, 



elSos, resemblance), like a hinge 



(Heinig). 

 ginkgoa'ceous, resembling the 



Maiden -hair tree, Gingko biloba. 

 Gir' die - band, the hoop, girdle or 



cingulum of a Diatom-frustule ; 



Gir'dle-view, the front or back 



view of a Diatom, in distinction to 



a lateral view, 

 gla'cial, (glades, ice), employed by 



MacMillan for " distinctively 



northern plants." 

 Glaucogonid'ium(7XauKos, bluish grey, 



+ GONIDIUM), the bluish green 



gonidium of Lichens (Bornet). 

 Glebe = GLEBA ; gle'bulose, possessing 



a gleba, or resembling it. 

 gleocap'soid (elSos, resemblance), like 



the genus Gleocapsa. 

 Gloe'ospores, -ae (7X010, glue, + 



SPORA), plants having viscid seeds 



(Clements). 

 glob'ulose, globido'sus, a diminutive 



Of GLOBOSE. 



glumose', glumo'sus = GLUMACEOUS. 



glyco'sic, resembling the action of 

 the enzyme GLUCOSE. 



glyphol'ecine (y\v(fx>}, I hollow out, 

 X6ros dish), with wavy longitudinal 

 canals or grooves (Heinig). 



Glu'tenin, a constituent of wheat 

 gluten ; Glutencasein or ZYMOM. 



Gnesiog'amy (yvfoios, legitimate, 

 ydfjios, marriage), fertilization 

 between different individuals of 

 the same species. 



Gonian'gium, term proposed by 

 A. Braun to include cystocarps 

 and the scyphi of Hepaticae; 

 gonid'ic, possessing gonidia (Lind- 

 say); gonid'ioid (el5os, resem- 

 blance), gonidium - like ; Gon'io- 

 cyst (KV<TTIS, a bag), a sporangium 

 (A. Braun) ; Goniocyt'ium (KVTOS, 

 a hollow) = GONIDANGIUM ; Gono- 

 cys'tia = GONOCYSTS ; Gon'osphere 

 (a-<paipa, a sphere), a zoogonidium 

 of Chytridiaceae (Nowakowski). 



Grand' mother Ax'is, the primary axis 



