mycoplasmtc 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Nothogamy 



host, and reawakening to complete 

 its cycle, on the return of favour- 

 able conditions ; adj. mycoplas'mic ; 

 mycotroph'ic (<rpo(p^, food), em 

 ployed of plants possessing mycor- 

 rhiza. 



myr'cioid (eTSos, resemblance), like 

 Myrcia or akin to it (F. v. 

 Mueller). 



myrmecobro'inous (pp^M, food), 

 applied to plants affording food to 

 ants (Hansgirg) ; myrmecopho'bic 

 (06/3eo>, I fear), shunning ants, used 

 of plants which by hairs, or glands, 

 repel ants. 



myrtilli'nus (Mod. Lat.), myrtle- 

 green, Myrtus. 



Myxobacter'ia ( + BACTERIA), applied 

 to those bacteria which form 

 colonies united by a gelatinous 

 covering (Thaxter) ; Myxogas'ters, 

 an Anglicised form of MYXO- 

 GASTRES ; adj. myxogas'trous ; 

 myxomyce'tous, relating to the same 

 group under its name of Myxo- 

 mycetae; Myxophy'ceae (00/cos, sea- 

 weed) = SCHIZOPHYCEAE ; Myx'o- 

 phyte (<t>vrov, a plant), Wettstein's 

 name for Rhizopoda regarded as 

 plants ; Myxothallophy'tae ( + 

 THALLOPHYTE) = MYXOGASTRES. 



na'creous (Fr., nacre, mother-of- 

 pearl), with pearly lustre (Hei- 

 nig). 



Nama'tium (vafj.a, ra/*aros, a stream), 

 a brook formation ; namatoph'ilus 

 (0t\ew, I love), brook-loving ; 

 Namatophy'ta (0im>v, a plant), 

 brook plants (Clements). 



Nannan'der, a dwarf -male (Witt- 

 rock); cf. NANNANDROUS. 



Nas'tie (J/CIO-TOJ, pressed close), auto- 

 matic curvature of a dorsiventral 

 organ influenced by continued 

 growth in length (De Vries). 



nau'tilold (eldos, resemblance), like 

 the shell of a nautilus (Heinig). 



navic'ulaeform (forma, shape) = 

 naviculoid. 



Neck, add, (5) the prolongation of 

 the apex of the perithecium in 

 Pyrenomycetes. 



nect'ary, (2) employed by Linnaeus 

 for the utricle of Carex. 



Nee'dle, the stiff linear leaf of Coni- 

 ferae ; double <-^ the specially 

 metamorphosed leaf - organ of 

 Sciadopitys. 



Neidioplank'ton (vrjls, a nymph, -f 

 PLANKTON), Forel's term for plank- 

 ton organisms possessing swimming 

 apparatus. 



Nema'tium, water margin plant-for- 

 mation (Ganong) ; cf. NAMATIUM. 



Ne'ophyte (Qwov, a plant), newly 

 introduced plants (Rikli). 



Nepenth'in, a proteolytic enzyme 

 occurring in the pitchers of 

 Nepenthes. 



Net-plasmo'dium ( + PLASMODIUM), a 

 state of the Acrasieae, due either to 

 fusion or merely contact (Olive). 



neu'tropMle (0tX^w, I love), a hybrid 

 word for elements which do not 

 take up either acid or basic stains, 

 as hyalosomes. 



Nex'us (Lat.), a connection. 



Ni'tropnytes (vlrpov, potash or soda, 

 (ftvrov, a plant), nitrophilous plants, 

 thriving best on soils affording 

 most alkalies (Schimper). 



Nix'us (Lat., an effort), affinity, as of 

 one species to another of the same 

 genus. 



no'dal Plex'us, the net or transverse 

 girdle of bundles which sometimes 

 exists at a node ; ~ Wood, cf. IN- 



FRANODAL, SUPRANODAL. 



Nom'ium, pi. -ia (vo(j.6s, a pasture), 



rsture formation ; noinoc'ola (colo, 

 inhabit), nomoph'ilus (</>i\ea>, I 

 love), dwelling in pastures ; Nomo- 

 phy'ta (<f)VTov, a plant), pasture 

 plants (Clements). 



nomnar'itime, inland (Kearney) ; 

 Nonoccur'rence, employed by 

 Kearney to denote absence from 

 a given locality ; non'saline, 

 shunning salt, as plants of inland 

 localities (Kearney) ; nonun'dulate, 

 flat, not wavy (Kearney). 



nostocha'cepus, resembling Nostoc or 

 allied to it (Archer). 



Nothog'amy (v66os, bastard, yd/mos, 

 marriage), heteromorphic xeno- 



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