Pollinide 



SUPPLEMENT) 



Potamophy'ta 



wards the base of the ovule 

 (Pirobta and Longo). 



Pol'linide, a single antheridial cor- 

 puscle (Sirodot). 



Polyan'dry, the state of having many 

 stamens ; pol'yarcli (apx^i, begin- 

 ning), when a stele possesses many 

 protoxylem groups ; Polycyst'in, 

 pigment from Polycystis Flos-aquce, 

 allied to carotin (Zopf ). 



polycorm'ic (/co/j/ioj, a trunk), ex- 



Eressive of such trees as the 

 istigiate Irish yew, which has 

 a number of erect radial axes 

 (A. H. Burtt); Polycotyle'dons 

 ( + COTYLEDONS), when the seed 

 leaves are so divided as to appear 

 many ; polyer'gic, shortened from 

 polyergid'ic (epyov, work), used by 

 Goebel of the Vasculares ; Poly- 

 gen'esis (yeveffts, origin), Clements's 

 term for POLYPHYLESIS, multiple 

 origin. 



polygona'ceous, allied to, or re- 

 sembling the genus Polygonum ; 

 Polygone'tum, a plant association 

 of that genus (Clements). 



polykar'ic (itdpvov, a nut) = multi- 

 nucleate. 



polyplas'tic, applied to septate 

 spores ; Pol'yplast, add, (2) the 

 multicellular stage of the embryo, 

 before the differentiation of cell- 

 layers or organs in Mosses, Ferns, 

 etc. (Parker) ; adj. polyplas'tic, see 

 also POLYBLA.STIC. 



polypodia'ceous, allied to or re- 

 sembling the genus Polypod- 

 ium. 



pol'yspored = POLYSPOROUS. 



polyst'ichous (-n-oXvo-Tixos, in many 

 lines), when leaves are borne in 

 many series, as the leaf-scars in 

 Caulopteris. 



polytax'ic (rais, order), a character 

 varying in a discontinuous manner 

 (Coutagne) ; polytop'ic (TOTTOS, a 

 place) applied to species supposed 

 to be of independent origin in 

 more than one place. 



polytricna'ceouB, resembling or akin 

 to Polytrichum ; polytrlcho'sus, 

 employed by Nillson, when the 



ground under heather is carpeted 

 with mosses. 



polytroph'ic (rpcxprj, food), obtaining 

 food from a wide area of selection 

 (Jones). 



poma'ceus (Lat.), apple - green 

 (Hayne). 



Pentium (irbvTos, the sea), a deep sea 

 formation ; pontoph'ilus (0iXeo>, I 

 love), dwelling in the deep sea ; 

 Pontophy'ta (<pvr6v, a plant), deep 

 sea plants (Clements). 



pooc'ola (7r6a, grass, meadow ; colo, I 

 inhabit), pooph'ilus (0t\ew, I love), 

 living in grass meadows ; Poophy'ta 

 ((PVTOV, a plant), meadow plants 

 (Clements). 



popu'leus, the blackish - green of 

 poplar leaves, Populus nigra. 



porca'tus (porca, a ridge), ridged; 

 employed by Lemaire. 



Pore, (4) an opening in the prickles 

 of Victoria regia ; Pores, bor'dered, 

 in Sphagnum, the opening sur- 

 rounded by a distinct thickened 

 ring ; Por'oids (eI5os, resemblance), 

 small circular dots in the cell-wall 

 of Diatoms resembling pores (0. 

 MULLER) 



postcarpotrop'ic ( + CARPOTROPIC), 

 curvature of the pedunc'e at the 

 maturation of fruit to help in 

 disseminate n. 



Pos'teriform (posterns, last, + FORM), 

 the late derivative of an ancestral 

 form (Kuntze). 



Postflora'tion (flos, flower), persist- 

 ence of the floral envelopes after 

 flowering (Lindman) ; Post-Pnyl'- 

 lome (0u\Xo', a leaf), Potonies 

 term for leaves; Post-Spor'ophyll 

 ( + SPOROPHYLL) ; Post Troph/o- 

 phyll ( + TROPHOPHYLL) ; Post- 

 Trophospor'ophyll( + SPOROPHYLL) ; 

 similar refinements by the same 

 author ; refer to SPOROPHYLL, etc. 



Potam'ium (TTOTCI^OS, a river), a river 

 formation ; potamoph'ilus ($iX^w, 

 I love), river-loving (Clements) ; 

 Potamoplank'ton ( + PLANKTON), 

 the floating vegetation of inland 

 waters ; Potamophy'ta ((pvrov, a 

 plant), river plants (Clements). 



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