lithophilus 
(SUPPLEMENT) 
Malacophilae 
lithoph’ilus (¢iAéw, I love), rock- 
loving; Lithophy’ta, (2) plants 
growing amongst rocks; Litho- 
phy’tia, rock plant formations (Cle- 
ments), 
lobose’, occasionally used for LOBED. 
Lob’ule, add, (3) a tongue-like struc- 
ture opposite the scutellum in 
grasses, the epiblast (Van Tieg- 
bem). 
Loch’mium (Adxuy, a thicket), a 
thicket formation; lochmoc’ola 
(colo, I inhabit), and lochmoph’ilus 
(geA€w, I love), dwelling in thickets; 
Lochmophy’ta (gurdv, a plant), 
thicket plants (Clements). 
Lochmo’dium (\oxuwdys, bushy), a dry 
thicket formation ; lochmodoph’ilus 
(gréw, I love), dwelling in dry 
thickets ; Lochmodophy’ta (gu76», 
a plant), dry thicket plants (Cle- 
ments). 
Lo’co, disease of cattle and sheep 
from their feeding on Lo’co-plants 
or ~ weeds, chiefly species of As- 
tragalus and Lupinus. 
Loc’oform (locus, a place, + Form), 
a form which differs from its 
nearest allies by peculiarities de- 
rived from the climate or soil 
(Kuntze); Locogreg’iform (grex, 
gregis, a flock), a secondary or 
tertiary Ramirorm (Kuntze). 
longistam’inate (+ STamEN), having 
stamens on long filaments. 
Loph’ium, a hill or crest formation ; 
lophoph’ilus (¢:Aéw, I love), hill- 
dwelling; Lophophy’ta (gurov, a 
plant), hill- plants (Clements) ; 
Loph’ospores, -@ (+ Spors), plants 
having plumose pappus (Clements); 
lophot’richous (@plt, zptxos, hair), 
used of those bacteria possessed of 
a tuft of cilia (Jones). 
Lor’icae, (3) employed by Hance to 
denote the scales of the fruit of 
Calamus. 
Lo’tase, an enzyme in Lotus arabicus ; 
Lotofia’vin, a yellow colouring 
maiter in the same plant ; Lo’tusin, 
a yellow crystalline glucoside also 
from it. 
Luw’siform (/usus, a game), a new form, 
due to cultivation, which repro- 
duces itself by vegetable increase 
only, and not by seed (Kuntze). 
lu'ticole, (dutum, mud, colo, I inhabit), 
used of a plant growing in miry 
places. 
lycopodin’ean, lycopodi’nous, resem- 
bling in structure Lycopodium; 
Lycop’sida (5yxs, appearance), a 
group of cryptogams, consisting of 
Lycopodiales and Equisetales 
(Jeffrey). 
macroaéroph’ilous (aér, aid, gird, I 
love), employed by Winogradsky to 
express the avidity for oxygen 
shown by Clostridium; Macroa- 
planosporang’ium (+ APLANOSPORE, 
SPORANGIUM), the sporangium pro- 
ducing macroaplanospores (Thax- 
ter); Macroaplan’ospore (+ Ap- 
LANOSPORE), aplanospores of large 
size given off by Compsopogon 
(Thaxter)} macrocladous,-dus 
(khados, a branch), having long 
branches; Macro-microspor ophyll 
=CARPEL, 
macromit’reous, resembling the genus 
Macromitrium. 
Mac’rophyte(gurdv, a plant), employed 
by Schimper to denote marine Algae 
of extreme length; Macro- 
spartine’tum, a salt marsh plant 
association in which Spartina is 
dominant (Ganong), 
macrosporold (eldos, 
resembling the 
sporium, Fries. 
Macrospor’ophore (+ SPOROPHORE), an 
organ supporting macrospores. 
macrothermoph’ilus (g:Aéw, I love), 
dwelling in the tropics; Macro- 
thermophy’ta (g¢urdv, a plant), tro- 
pical plants ; Macrothermophy'tia 
(Clements). [Norz.—These words 
would have been better coined 
from mega-, instead of macro-.] 
Mak’roflora (+ Fora), applied by 
Levier and Sommier to the luxuri- 
ant vegetation of some of the 
valleys in the Caucasus. 
Malacog’amy (dos, marriage), used 
in cases of Malacoph’ilae, plants 
resemblance), 
genus Macro- 
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