lithophilus 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Malacopbilae 



lithopn'ilus (0iX<?w, I love), rock- 

 loving; Litliopliy'ta, (2) plants 

 growing amongst rocks; Litho- 

 pny'tia, rock plant formations (Cle- 

 ments). 



lobose', occasionally used for LOBED. 



Lob'ule, add, (3) a tongue-like struc- 

 ture opposite the scutellum in 

 grasses, the epiblast (Van Tieg- 

 hem). 



Loch'mium (\6xM, a thicket), a 

 thicket formation ; lochmoc'ola 

 (colo, I inhabit), and lochmoph'ilus 

 (0iXe', I love), dwelling in thickets; 

 Lochmophy'ta (<t>vrbv, a plant), 

 thicket plants (Clements). 



Lochmo'dium (Xox^w^s, bushy), a dry 

 thicket formation ; lochmocloph'ilus 

 (0t\^w, I love), dwelling in dry 

 thickets ; Lochmpdophy'ta (QVTOV, 

 a plant), dry thicket plants (Cle- 

 ments). 



Lo'co, disease of cattle and sheep 

 from their feeding on Lo'co-plants 

 or ^ weeds, chiefly species of As- 

 tragalus and Lupinus. 



Loc'oform (locus, a place, + FORM), 

 a form which differs from its 

 nearest allies by peculiarities de- 

 rived from the climate or soil 

 (Kuntze) ; Locogreg'iform (grex, 

 gregis, a flock), a secondary or 

 tertiary RAMIFORM (Kuntze). 



longistam'inate (+ STAMEN), having 

 stamens on long filaments. 



Loph'ium, a hill or crest formation ; 

 lophoph'ilus (0iX<(w, I love), hill- 

 dwelling ; Lophophy'ta (<f>vTov t a 

 plant), hill - plants (Clements) ; 

 Loph'ospores, -ce ( + SPORE), plants 

 having plumose pappus (Clements); 

 lophot'richous (8pl, T/NXOS, hair), 

 used of those bacteria possessed of 

 a tuft of cilia (Jones). 



Lor'icae, (3) employed by Hance to 

 denote the scales of the fruit of 

 Calamus. 



Lo'tase, an enzyme in Lotus arabicus ; 

 Lotofla'vin, a yellow colouring 

 matter in the same plant ; Lp'tusin, 

 a yellow crystalline glucoside also 

 from it. 



Lu'siform (lusus, a game), a new form, 



due to cultivation, which repro- 

 duces itself by vegetable increase 

 only, and not by seed (Kuntze). 



lu'ticole, (lutum, mud, colo, I inhabit), 

 used of a plant growing in miry 

 places. 



lycopodin'ean, lycopodi'nous, resem- 

 bling in structure Lycopodium ; 

 Lycop'sida (3^ty, appearance), a 

 group of cryptogams, consisting of 

 Lycopodiales and Equisetales 

 (Jeffrey). 



macroaeroph'ilous (aer, aid, 0tXe'w, I 

 love), employed by Winogradsky to 

 express the avidity for oxygen 

 shown by Clostridium ; Macroa- 

 planosporang'ium( + APLANOSPORE, 

 SPORANGIUM), the sporangium pro- 

 ducing macroaplanosporea (Thax- 

 ter) ; Macroaplan'ospore ( + AP- 

 LANOSPORE), aplanospores of large 

 size given off by Compsopogon 

 (Thaxter); macroelad'pus,-</M3 

 (jcXaSos, a branch), having long 

 branches ; Macro-microspor'ophyll 

 = CARPEL. 



macromit'reous, resembling the genus 

 Macrom itrium. 



Mac'rophyte(0trrd>', a plant), employed 

 by Schimper to denote marine Algae 

 of extreme length ; Macro - 

 spartine'tum, a salt marsh plant 

 association in which Spartina is 

 dominant (Ganong). 



macrospor'oid (eZSos, resemblance), 

 resembling the genus Macro- 

 sporium, Fries. 



Macrospor'ophore ( + SPOROPHORE), an 

 organ supporting macrospores. 



macrothermoph'ilus (0iX<?w, I love), 

 dwelling in the tropics ; Macro- 

 thermophy'ta (<f>vrbv, a plant), tro- 

 pical plants ; Macrothermophy'tia 

 (Clements). [NOTE. These words 

 would have been better coil 

 from mega-, instead of macro-.] 



Mak'roflora (+ FLORA), applied 

 Levier and Sommier to the luxur 

 ant vegetation of some of tl 

 valleys in the Caucasus. 



Malacog'amy (y&nos, marriage), us 

 in cases of Malacoph'ilae, plant 



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