proxylar 
pseudogyratus 
prox ylar + (po, for, ‘’Aov, wood), 
capable of forming wood ; Proxyle’, 
Proxy’lem = PROTOXYLEM ; Prozy’- 
mogen (+ ZyMOGEN), a material 
formed of the chromatin of the 
nucleus which is extruded into the 
cytoplasm there becoming zymo- 
gen (Macallum). 
Prui’na (Lat., hoar-frost) semina’lis, 
“the spores of certain Fungals ” 
(Lindley) ; pru‘inate, pruina’tus, 
pru'inose, pruino’sus, pru’inous, 
having a waxy powdery secretion 
on the surface, a ‘‘ bloom.” 
pruniferous (prunwm, a plum, fero, 
I bear), bearing plums; pru’niform, 
pruniform’is (forma, shape), plum- 
shaped ; Pru’nus t = Drupe. 
prurient, pru’'riens (Lat., itching), 
causing an itching sensation. 
psammoph’ilous (Wdpupos, sand, piréw, 
I love), sand-loving, as the vege- 
tation of dunes; Psam’mophyte 
(purov, a plant), «a sand-loving 
plant, as dune plants. 
Pseudacran’thic (pevdys, false, + 
ACRANTHIC), applied to flowers 
from dichasial shoots which are 
apparently terminal (K. Schu- 
mann); Pseud-an’nual (+ ANNUAL), 
an herbaceous plant which hiber- 
nates as a tuber or bulb (L. H. 
Bailey); Pseudan’nulus (+ ANNU- 
LUS), an apparent annulus of 
specialized cells, exterior to the 
peristome in Mosses ; pseudan’thic 
(&v00s, a flower), a flower which 
simulates a simple flower, but is 
composed of more than a single 
axis, with subsidiary flowers (Del- 
pino); Pseudan’this, the state in 
question ; Pseudax’is ( + Axis) = 
SyMPODIUM ; pseudhomonymic (+ 
Homonym), used by F. N. Williams 
for a partial homonomy, as Gas- 
trolychnis and Gastrosilene; Pseu- 
din’ulin (+ INULIN), a subordinate 
constituent of inulin (Tancret) ; 
pseudobiator’ine, falsely biatorine, 
having an apothecium without a 
conspicuous thalline margin ; Pseu’- 
dobulb (+ Buus), a thickened and 
bulb-like internode in Orchids, a 
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corm ; Pseudobul’bil (+ BuLBiL), a 
growth from the roots of Acriopsis 
javanica, Reinw., composed of two 
internodes, and bearing leaves at 
the apex; Pseudo-capillitium (+ 
CaPILuitium), Lister’s term for a 
structure in Mnteridium, consisting 
of the perforated walls of the 
component sporangia ; Pseu’do- 
carp, Pseudocar’ pium, Pseudocar’pus 
(kap7és, fruit), (1) a fruit with its 
accompanying parts, as a straw- 
berry ; (2) = GaLBuLvs (Henslow) ; 
Pseudocel'lulose (+ CELLULOSE), 
see CELLULOSE; Pseudocephalo’- 
dium (+ CEPHALODIUM), a growth 
formed in the protothallus by a 
germinating hypha investing an 
algal colony of some other type 
than the normal gonidia of the 
Lichen (Forsell) ; Pseudocil‘ium 
(cilium, an eyelash), a motionless 
whip-like body, proceeding in pairs 
from each cell of Apiocystis Brauni- 
ana, Naeg. (Correns) ; pseudo- 
cos'tate, pseudocosta’tus (costatus, 
ribbed), false-ribbed, as where a 
marginal vein is formed by con- 
fluence of the true veins ; Pseudo- 
cotyle’don (+ CoryLepon) = Pro- 
EMBRYO ; Pseudodys’tropy (duc = 
bad, rpory, a turning), when eutro- 
pous insects gain access to honey 
by secondary means, as when cer- 
tain bees bore through to the 
nectaries, instead of entering 
by the opening of the flower 
(Loew) ; Pseudoép’iphyte (+ Ert- 
PHYTE), a plant whose stems die 
away at the base, and the upper 
part derives its nourishment from 
its own aérial roots, as Aroids 
(Went); Pseu’do-fecunda’tion (+ 
FECUNDATION), two nuclei of four 
combine to form the egg, the other 
two form the albumen (Guignard) ; 
Pseudog’amy (yduos, marriage), 
parthenogenetic fruiting, as polli- 
nation without impregnation of 
ovules; pseudogyra’tus (yupds, 
curved), falsely ringed, as when 
the annulus is confined to the 
vertex of the sporangium in Ferns; 
