herborize 
Heteroecism 
for the collection of plants ; herb’- 
orize, to botanize. 
Hercog’amy (pxos, a fence, ydpos, 
marriage), applied to hermaphro- 
dite flowers, when some structural 
peculiarity prevents self-fertiliza- 
tion, requiring insect-visitation ; 
adj. hercogam’ic, herkogam’ic, her- 
cog’amous, -mus. 
hermaph’rodite, hermaphrodi’ tus (Lat. 
having the characters of both sexes), 
the stamens and pistils in the same 
flower. 
Hered'ity (here’ditas, heirship), pos- 
session by inheritance, of certain 
qualities or structures; bisexual ~, 
unisex’ual ~, having the qualities 
of both, or of one parent only trans- 
mitted. 
Her’pes (ép77s, a cutaneous eruption) 
tonsu’rans (Lat., shaving), ring- 
worm, a disease of the skin as- 
cribed to Trichophyton tonsurans, 
Malm. 
Her’poblast (¢prw, I creep, Braces, a 
shoot), Cramer’s term for a con- 
fervoid prothallium lying flat on 
its substratum. 
Hesperid’‘ium (from the golden fruit 
of the garden of the Hesperides), 
Desvaux’s term for a fruit, such 
as the orange, a superior, poly- 
carpellary, syncarpous berry, pulpy 
within, and externally covered with 
a tough rind; AvuRantium of De 
Candolle. 
Hetae’rio (éra:pela, a brotherhood), 
a collection of distinct indehiscent 
carpels produced by asingle flower, 
dry or fleshy, as in the Strawberry, 
Buttercup, Raspberry; usually 
spelled EraERio. 
Heterac’my (repos, other, dxun, apex), 
= Dicocamy ; heteran’drous (av7yp, 
avépes, a man), applied to flowers 
whose stamens vary in size ; Heter- 
an’dry, the condition described ; 
Heterauxe’sis (avéycis, growth), 
variation in the relative growth 
of opposite sides of an organ; 
heterax’on (d&wv, a axle), applied 
by O. Mueller to a diatom if the 
transverse axes are unequal; Hetero- 
albumose’ (+ ALBUMosE), Kuhne’s 
term for proteid, phytalbumose; 
heteroblas’tic (S\acrds, a shoot), 
applied to embryogeny which is 
indirect, the offspring not similar to 
the parent, but producing the adult 
form as an outgrowth, as in Chara; 
heterocar’pous, -pus (xapzos, fruit), 
producing more than one kind of 
fruit; heterocar’picus (fructus), ‘an 
inferior fruit” (Lindley ; Hetero- 
ear’py, having two kinds of fruit; 
heteroceph’alous, (xe@ad7, the 
head), bearing two kinds of head 
or capitulum ; heterochlamyd’eous, 
-deus (xAauvs, a mantle), when the 
calyx and corolla clearly differ ; 
Heterochro’matism (xpwya, colour), 
a change in the colouring or mark- 
ing of petals; heterochro’mous, 
when the florets of the disk in 
Compositae differ in colour from 
those of the ray ; heterocis’mal, an 
ill-contrived version of HETEROECI- 
ous; het‘erocline, heterocli’nous, 
-nus (k\ivy, a bed), with the male 
and female members on separate 
receptacles. 
het’eroclite, heteroc'litus (érepdxXros, 
varying in declension), anomalous 
in formation. 
heterocy’clic (repos, other, xKvxKXos, a 
a circle), used when the floral 
whorls are heteromerous, not uni- 
form or isomerous; Het’erocyst 
(kvorts, a bag), large inert cells in 
the filaments of certain Algae, separ- 
ating contiguous hormogonia ; adj. 
heterocyst’ous; Heterodi’ody (dlodos, 
a passage), Van Tieghem’s term 
for the condition of those Diopzs 
which are differentiated into Mac- 
RODIODES, and MicropiopEs; cf. 
Isopiopy ; heterod’romous, -mus 
(Spduos, a course), having spirals of 
changing directions, as in some 
tendrils, or phyllotaxis ; Heterod’- 
romy, with varied spirals; heteroe’- 
cious, forms which pass through 
their stages of development on 
different hosts are so termed; 
metoecious is a synonym, Heter- 
oe’cism, the condition of a heter- 
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