malacophilous 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Merogamy 



pollinated by slugs and snails ; 

 adj. malacoph'ilous. 



malpighia'ceous, relating to Malpig- 

 hiaceae; as the peculiar hairs of 

 many species. 



mammilliform (forma, shape), ap- 

 plied to those papillate protuber- 

 ances on a petal, which give it a 

 velvety appearance. 



Mannoceirulose( -f CELLULOSE), a con- 

 stituent of gymnosperm wood, 

 which on hydrolysis yields abund- 

 ant MANNOSE (Bertrand). 



Man/tie -fl'bres, A. A. Lawson's term 

 for the fibres of the nuclear-spindle. 



marattia'ceous, akin to or resembling 

 the fern genus Marattia. 



marsu'pioid (eZSos, resemblance) = 



MARSUPIAL. 



Mass, pi. Mass'es, used by Sir J. 

 E. Smith for Sonus, SORI. 



Mas'tigospores, -ae ( + SPORE), plants 

 with flagellate spores (Clements). 



me'dian Bract'eole, one inserted at 

 the middle of the pedicel ; ~ 

 Chor'isis, the multiplication of a 

 single organ in the median plane ; ~ 

 zygomorpn'ous, capable of division 

 into similar halves by a plane pass- 

 ing through the middle ; cf. 



SAGITTAL SECTION. 



Med'ioform (medius, middle, +FORM), 

 an intermediate form not due to 

 hybridity (Kuntze); Medioloc'oform 

 (locus, a place), a local MEDIOFORM 

 (Kuntze). 



meduTlary Casts, impressions of the 

 internal cavity of Calamites in solid 

 material ; medull'ated, possessing 

 pith. 



Megachlor'oplast ( + CHLOROPLAST), 

 compound chlorophyll granules in 

 Tillandsia, composed of MICRO - 

 CHLOROPLASTS (Billings) ; Mega- 

 phyl'lidae (0uX\oj/,a leaf ), the Ferns, 

 as possessing broad fronds ; mega- 

 phyl'lous, leaves or leaf-like expan- 

 sions large (Jeffrey). 



Megaplan'ogamete( + PLANOGAMETE), 

 Brebner's term for a large piano- 

 gamete, presumably female ; Mega- 

 sporang'ium (+ SPORANGIUM), the 

 correct form of MACROSPORA.NGIUM; 



Y 



megather'niic, the correct form of 

 macrother'mic, requiring much 

 heat, as tropical plants. 

 Megazo'ospore ( +ZOOSPORE), a motile 

 spore, larger than those termed 



MlCROZOOSPORES. 



Mei'ostates (fj-duit, less, (jraros, a 

 standing), the intermediate pro- 

 ducts of metabolism, comprising 

 (a) ANASTATES, formed during 

 anabolism, and (b) KATASTATES, 

 during katabolism (Parker). 



melangeoph'ilus (777, earth, 0i\<?w, I 

 live), dwelling in loam ; Melangeo- 

 phy'ta (0uTov, a plant), loam plants ; 

 Melangeophy'tia, loam or alluvium 

 plant formations (Clements) ; 

 Mel'anin, black pigment of bacteria; 

 Mel'anopnyll, the chief colouring 

 matter of Diatoms (Warming, 

 Handbook, Engl. ed., p. 18). 



Menthol' ogist (Mentha, \byos, dis- 

 course), an expert or writer on 

 mints, the genus Mentha. 



merenchy'matous, belonging to or 

 like MERENCHYMA ; mericy'clic 

 (/cu/cXos, a circle), occupying a 

 part only of the diameter,,, as 

 spirally-arranged leaves (Cela- 

 kovsky) ; Mer'iphyte (Qvrbv, a 

 plant), employed by Lignier for 

 the vascular tissue of the leaf ; 

 Mer'iplast (TrXaards, moulded), a 

 protoplast in a polyplast which 

 remains distinct, and does not fuse 

 with its fellows (Pirotta). 



meris'moid (eTSoj, resemblance), 

 having a likeness to the fuogus- 

 genus Merisma. 



Merispor'ocyst (KUOTIS, a bag), the 

 simple or branched SPOROCYST of 

 Cephalideae, considered as a de- 

 parture from the type of fructifica- 

 tion of the Mucoraceae (Vuillemin); 

 Mer'istele, restricted by Brebner, 

 by exoluding ACTINOSTKLE and 

 HAPLOSTELE from it ; further par- 

 ticularized into DI-, EU-, HAPLO-, 



MONO-, TETRA-, TRI-MERISTELIO 



types ; Merog'amy (yd/j.os, mar- 

 riage), reduced autophagy, which 

 does not require the participation 

 of the whole of a second gamete, 



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