Taxy 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Tribium 



Tax'y, the constituent of a variation 

 (Coutagne), a modality "clearly 

 disjoint." 



Teich'osome (re^os, a wall, o-w/ia, a 

 body), droplets or spherules com- 

 posing the cell-wall (Gardiner). 



Tek'nospore (TCWOU, I bear children, 

 + SPOKE),* spore produced directly 

 from male or female organs of 

 Equisetaceae and many ferns 

 (Radlkoper). 



Teleb'olites (/3oXls, a missile), the pro- 

 ducts of enzyme action (Beyerinck) ; 

 Teleomito'sis ( + MITOSIS) = KARYO- 



KINESIS. 



Teleutosor'us ( + Sonus), an aggrega- 

 tion of teleutospores (Arthur and 

 Holway) ; teleutospor'ic, relating 

 to a TELEUTOSPORE ; teleutospor- 

 If erous (fero, I bear), producing 

 teleutospores (Cooke). 



Telmat'ium (r^\ua, a pool), (1) 

 Ganong's expression for a wet 

 marsh ; (2) Clements's expression 

 for a wet meadow formation ; Tel- 

 matorogy (\6yos, discourse), ac- 

 count of the origin of moors 

 (Dorfler) ; telmatpph'ilus (<iX<?w, I 

 love), dwelling in wet meadows 

 (Clements) ; Telmatophy'ta (^UTOV, 

 a plant), wet meadow plants 

 (Clements). 



terrig'enous= TERRESTRIAL, a hybrid 

 word used by A. Cunningham. 



Tetracot'yl ( + COTYLEDON), a seedling 

 with both cotyledons deeply bifid 

 (De Vries). 



tetrameriste'lic ( + MERISTELE), used 

 of leaf-traces when composed of 

 four meristeles (Brebner) ; tetra- 

 spora'ceous, tetraspor'ine, con- 

 nected with the production of 

 TETRASPORES. 



Thalas'smm (0dXcw<ra, the sea), * ' a 

 particular sea formation " ; thalas- 

 soph'ilus (0tX<?w, I love), sea-loving ; 

 Thalassophy'ta (Qvrov, a plant), 

 sea-plants (Clements) ; Thalas'so- 

 plank'ton ( + PLANKTON), oceanic 

 plankton (Forel). 



thelephor'oid, like Thelephorus 

 (Berkeley). 



Tne'rium, or The'rion (0-ijp, a wild 



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beast), a plant succession due to 

 animal agency (Clements). 



thermonas'tic (rao-ros, pressed), close 

 appression of an organ due to heat ; 

 Thermotax'is (rdis, order), move- 

 ment induced by heat, moving 

 towards its source. 



Thigmomorpho'sis (Oiyyavw, I touch, 

 + MORPHOSIS), change in the 

 original structure due to contact, 

 as the adhering discs of Ampe- 

 lopsis ; Thigmotaxls (+ TAXIS), the 

 result of mechanical stimulus ; 

 Thigmot'ropism (rpoirr], a turning), 

 movement in response to mechanical 

 stimulus. 



Thin'ium (0is, 6ivos, a sand heap), a 

 dune formation ; thinoph'ilus 

 (^-iXew, Hove), dune-loving ; Thino- 

 phy'ta (01/roV, a plant), dune 

 plants (Clements). 



Timber-line, the upper limit of tree- 

 vegetation. 



Time, cf. Exposition /*, Presenta'- 

 tion ~, Reac'tion ^. 



Tiph'ium (rt0oj, pool), a pond forma- 

 tion ; tiphoph'ilus (<pi\ew, I love), 

 pond-loving ; Tiphophy'ta (QVTOV, 

 a plant), pond plants (Clements). 



Ton'ie, or Ton'y, the unit of pressure 

 expressed by the action of the DYNE 

 on a square centimetre (Errera) ; 

 Ton'oboles, -ae (po\}j, a throw), 

 plants distributing the seeds by 

 tension of the carpels (Clements). 



tori'loid, resembling Torilis in habit. 



Trace-gap, the gap in the wood 

 caused by the passage of a leaf- 

 trace bundle in the stele. 



tremelToid, resembling Tremella in 

 its gelatinous form. 



tricotyle'donous ( + COTYLEDON), 

 having in appearance three cotyle- 

 dons due to one being deeply 

 lobed ; Tricotyle'dony is the con- 

 dition. 



Triacrorhi'zae (<X/c/>os, at the end, 

 plfa, a root), plants whose roots 

 arise from three initial cells or 

 groups at the apex, as the Phanero- 

 gams (Van Tieghem) ; adj. 

 triac'rorhlze. 



Trib'ium (T^TJ, a grinding down), a 



