Amathium 
(SUPPLEMENT) 
Anastates 
Amath’ium (déuaGos, sandy soil), a 
sand-hill formation ; amathoph'1lus 
(pdéw, I love), dwelling on sand- 
hills or sandy plains ; Amathophy’ta 
(gurov, a plant), sand-plain plants ; 
amath’ocolus (7.e. = amath’ocola), 
sandy dwelling plants (Clements). 
Am’ber, the English name of Suc- 
CINITE. 
Ambro’sia, the mycelial or oidial 
stage of a Fungus, probably of 
some Ascomycete, found in the bur- 
rows of some beetles in fruit-trees, 
and believed to be used as food. 
Amentifio’rae (jlos, floris, a flower), 
wind - fertilized, catkin - bearing 
plants, as the hazel or willow 
(Delpino). 
Am/idases (+ AMIDE), enzymes occur- 
ring in the mycelium of Aspergillus, 
which split off ammonia from urea, 
etc., but are not proteolytic 
(Shibata) ; am’inoid (e2dos, resem- 
blance), used by Kerner for those 
scents which have an amine as 
their foundation, and diffuse into 
the air, such as the hawthorn and 
elder. 
Am’me (Ger., nurse), cf. TROPHO-. 
Ammoch’thium (duyos, sand, 6x6, 
bank), a saud-bank formation ; 
ammochthoph‘ilus (¢:Aéw, I love), 
plant dwelling on sand-banks ; 
Ammochthophy’ta (¢u7dv, a plant), 
plants of sand-banks (Clements). 
Am’pelid (duzredos, a vine), used by 
J. Smith for any climbing plant ; 
Ampelog’raphist (ypd¢w, I write), 
a writer on vines. 
amphicoe’lous (xot\os, hollow), con- 
cave on both sides (Heinig) ; Am- 
phicot’yly, cf. AMPHISYNCOTYLY ; 
amphicri’bral (cribrum, asieve), ap- 
plied to a hadrocentric bundle 
(Haberlandt) ; Amphigen’esis (yéve- 
os, beginning); amphige’al, ap- 
plied to a plant which bears 
dimorphic flowers, the upper from 
the stem, the lower from the 
root or roct-stock, as Kraschen- 
ninikowia ; Amphig’ony (~yévos, 
offspring), sexual reproduction 
(Haeckel); Amphigon’ium, Kerner’s 
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term for ARCHEGONIUM; Amphi- 
le’psis (Ajys, a receiving), the 
ordinary result of fertilization; 
cf. Monouepsis (Bateson) ; Amphi- 
mix’is (uiés, a mingling), the union 
of parental characters in the em- 
bryo (Sargant) ; amphiphlo’ic, ap- 
plied to the central cylinder of 
stems, when both external and 
internal phloem are present; cf. 
Eotoratotc (Jeffrey); ~ Phylio- 
si’phony, when the tubular central 
cylinder exists with foliar gaps, 
and without external phloem ; am- 
phispor’al, amphispor‘ic (+ Spore), 
relating to an Am’phispore, Carle- 
ton’s name for Mrsosporz ; Am- 
phisor’us (+ Sonus), a group or 
patch of Ampuispores (Arthur 
and Holway); amphistomat/ic, 
amphisto’matous (+Stoma), with 
stomata on both upper and lower 
leaf - surfaces ; Amphisyncot’yly 
(+CoryLepon), having cotyledons 
coalescent in the form of a funnel 
or trumpet (De Vries) ; shortened 
to Amphicot’yly; amphitroph’ic, 
relating to AMPHITROPHY ; am- 
phiva’sal (vasa, vessels), used of a 
leptocentric bundle (Haberlandt). 
Amyloph’ylly (gv\\ov, a leaf), the 
production of starch-leaves ; Amy- 
losyn’thesis (cvvdeots, composition), 
the formation of starch (Hick). 
Anab’iont (flos, life), perennials, 
flowering and fruiting many times 
(A. Braun). 
Anab’olite (dvaBod}, something built 
up, + ite), any product of con- 
structive metabolism in the plant ; 
cf. KATABOLITE. 
anaeret‘icus (av, without, alperixds, 
Se of choosing), applied by C. 
chimper to an abnormal arrange- 
ment of the leaves in single rows 
on the axis, as happens in torsion, 
ete. 
Anaphyto’sis, the building up of 
plant structure by ANAPHYTES. 
Anast’ates, pl. (dvdcraros, removed), 
the products of anabolic or ascend- 
ing conversion of food-material 
into protoplasm (Parker). 
