Ecballium (SUPPLEMENT) Endemism 
Ecbal’‘lium, or Ecbal’lion (éxBéAdw, I 
throw out), succession of plants 
after timber felling (Clements), 
Ece’sis, see CEcESIS. 
Echi’nops-fluorescine, Echinops’ein, 
and Echinops‘ine, alkaloids found 
in Echinops Ritro (Greshoft). 
ecil‘iate (+CiL1uM), without cilia. 
E’cotone, see (Ecorone. 
Ectauxe’sis (avéyos, growth), the 
growth of an organ outwards 
through the substance of the parent 
shoot (Weisse). 
ectophlo’ic, the condition of stems 
when the internal phloem is want- 
ing; ¢f. AMPHIPHLOIO (Jeffrey) ; 
Ectospor’ium, the outer layer of a 
spore in bacteria (Miihlschegel) ; 
ectotrop’ic ; (2) the course of the 
pollen-tube in acrogamic fertiliza- 
tion, by the micropyle to the 
embryo-sac (Pirotta and Longo). 
Ec'topy (éxrémos, displaced), the 
abnormal position of an organ. 
edaph’ic (éagos, the ground), 
A. F. W. Schimper’s term for the 
influence of the soil on the plants 
growing upon it; Edaph’ophytes 
(gurov, a plant), plants which root 
in the earth, with assimilation 
organs in the air above it; normal 
plants, or Eupuytss (Schroter). 
Edob’oles, -ae (éw, I eat, Porn, a 
throw), distribution by turgescence 
of fruits or sporangia (Clements). 
eflagelliferous (+ FLAGELLUM, 
Sero, I bear), destitute of flagella ; 
efov eolate (fovea, a pit), ‘‘ smooth, 
without pits or depressions” 
(Heinig) ;—the form ‘“‘eforeolate”’ 
is a press-error. 
Egg-sac, the mesochite and endo- 
chite of Fucaceae, the membranes 
which enclose the egg (Farmer and 
Williams). 
Elae’oplasts, oil-drops, usually applied 
to the chromatophores in Diatoms, 
sometimes free; they are particu- 
larised as, LipRopLasts, PuLaco- 
PLASTS, and SPpaRsiopLasTs (Mere- 
schkowsky) ; EHlaioplank’ton (+ 
Puianxton), plankton floating by 
means of fatty matters (Forel). 
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Elate’rium, (2) the dried juice of the 
wild cucumber, Hlaterium. 
Elat’erophore (gopéw, I carry), thready 
organs which bear the elaters in 
certain Hepaticae. 
Electrot’onus (#Aexrpoy, amber révos, 
stress), a latent period of electric 
stress (Hoermann); Electrop‘ism 
or Electrotrop’ism (rpézos, direc- 
tion), the inflection of roots or 
shoots towards the cathode (Mac- 
dougal) ; Electrotax’is (rats, order), 
arrangement induced by electric 
currents. 
eleutherotep’alous (+ TEPAL), having 
free tepals (Pax). 
Emascula'tion, in plants, the re- 
moval of the stamens before they 
dehisce,from hermaphrodite flowers 
previous to artificial hybridization. 
Em’bryo-cord, in Hydnora, a single 
row of flattened cells connecting 
the embryo with the outer surface 
of the albumen (Solms-Laubach) ; 
Embryoblas’tanon (SAaores, a bud), 
Miquel’s term for the suspensor 
in Cycads ; embryon‘ic Appen’dage, 
the apical portion of the suspensor 
in grasses (Vines) ; embryophyt’ic, 
relating to EMBRYOPHYTA. 
emprosthod’romous (éumpocev, in 
front, dpduos, a course), used of a 
flower when the genetic spiral on 
its shortest way from the bract to 
the outermost perianth-segment 
passes outside the flower, farthest 
from the axis. 
En’alid (évd\vos, marine), Warming’s 
term for such plants as Zostera, 
Halophila, and other marine sub- 
mersed Phanerogams,. 
enantiosty‘lous (évayrios, opposite, + 
Sryiz), flowers whose styles are 
protruded right or left of the axis, 
with the stamens opposite. 
Enaul‘ium (évavAos, a water course), 
a ‘‘sanddraw formation”; enau- 
loph’ilus) giAdw, I love), dwelling in 
such places; Enaulophy’ta (gu7ov, 
a plant), plants inhabiting ‘‘sand- 
draws” (Clements). 
Ende’mism, the condition of endemic 
plants, 
