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Minnesota Algae 



Eccentric, without a common center 

 Elongate, lengthened, very long 

 Endophyte, a plant living within an- 

 other organism, usually as a para- 

 site 

 Entire, not toothed 

 Epiphyte, a plant growing upon the 

 outside of another plant, but not 

 nourished by it 

 Equilateral, with equal sides 



Family, a mass of plants of micro- 

 scopic size and somewhat definite 

 shape quite evidently arising from 

 the division of a single cell 



Fascicle, bundle 



Fasciculate) in bundles 



Fastigiate, tapering to a point 



Fenestrate, window-like 



Fibrillae, little threads 



Fibrillose, made up of small fibers 



Fibrous, of fibers 



Filament, the trichome together with 

 its sheath; a fine thread 



Filamentous, thread-like, composed of 

 filaments 



Filiform, thread-shaped 



Fission, splitting; cell division in 

 which the cell separates into two 

 nearly equal portions, especially 

 as a mode of reproduction 



Flaccid, soft, flabby 



Flagelliform, whip-like 



Flexuous, flexible 



Floccose, composed of matted, woolly 

 hairs 



Flocculent, woolly 



Foliaceous, leaf-like 



Foliose, leaf-like 



Gelatinous, jelly-like 



Geminate, paired 



Geniculate, bent abruptly like a bent 

 knee 



Genuilexuous, bent abruptly 



Glaucous, sea-greeri, gray-green 



Globose, like a ball 



Globular, spherical or nearly so 



Gonidangium, the cell in which go- 

 nidia are produced 



Goriidium, a reproductive cell devel- 

 oped asexually; a specialized re- 

 productive cell capable by itself, 

 of giving rise to a new organ- 

 ism. 



Granular, with granules 



Granule, a small grain 



Granulose, with granules 



Gregarious, growing in association, 

 but not matted together 



Grumose, grumous, like a cluster of 

 grains 



Habit, the general appearance or 

 characteristic manner of growth 

 of a plant 



Habitat, the locality or region, or the 

 kind of situation in which a plant 

 is naturally found 



Heterocyst, a cell uniformly larger 

 than its neighbors, but of doubt- 

 ful function ' 



Hirsute, with coarse hairs 



Homogeneous, uniform in character 

 or substance. 



Host, a plant which supports a para- 

 site (or an epiphyte ?) 



Hyaline, clear and colorless, trans- 

 parent 



Immersed, sunken below the surface 

 Impregnated, filled with 

 Indurated, hardened 

 Inequilateral, with unequal sides 

 Inflated, swollen ,,, 

 Integument, any outer covering 

 Intercalary, inserted between 

 Intricate, tangled, involved 

 Inundated, flooded 

 Investment, a covering 



Laciniate, torn 

 Lacunose, hollowed 

 Lamelliform, plate-like 

 Lamellose, with plates or blades 

 Lenticular, lens-shaped 

 Lubricous, slippery, slimy 

 Lumen, cavity 



Mammillate, mammillose, with nip- 

 ple-like projections 

 Mammilliform, nipple-like 

 Marginal, at the edge 

 Membranaceous, papery 

 Moniliform, chain-like 

 Motile, able to move 

 Mucilaginous, jelly-like 

 Multicellular, of several to many cells 



Nodule, a little knot or lump 

 Nucleus, a differentiated round or 

 oval body embedded in the proto- 

 plasm of a cell 



Obovate, ovate, but with the point 



of attachment at the lower end 

 Ocrea, a sheath 

 Ocreated, sheathed 

 Orbicular, circular 

 Oval, elliptical 

 Ovoid, egg-shaped 



Pannose, ragged 



Papillose, with a little point or nipple 



