mycoplasmic 
(SUPPLEMENT) 
Nothogamy 
host, and reawakening to complete 
its cycle, on the return of favour- 
able conditions ; adj. mycoplas’mic ; 
mycotroph’ic (cpodj, food), em. 
ployed of plants possessing mycor- 
rhiza. 
myr’cioid (elé0s, resemblance), like 
Myrcia or akin to it (F. v. 
Mueller). 
myrmecobro’mous (pun, food), 
applied to plants affording food to 
ants (Hansgirg); myrmecopho’bic 
(p6Bew, I fear), shunning ants, used 
of plants which by hairs, or glands, 
repel ants. 
myrtillinus (Mod. Lat.), myrtle- 
green, Myrtus. 
Myxobacteria (+ Bacrerta), applied 
to those bacteria which form 
colonies united by a gelatinous 
covering (Thaxter) ; Myxogas’ters, 
an Anglicised form of Myxo- 
GASTRES; adj. myxogas‘trous ; 
myxomyce’tous, relating tothesame 
group under its name of Myxo- 
mycetae; Myxophy’ceae (dixos, sea- 
weed) = ScHIZOPHYOEAE; Myx’o- 
phyte (durov, a plant), Wettstein’s 
name for Rhizopoda regarded as 
plants; Myxothallophy’tae (+ 
THALLOPHYTE) = MyxoGasTRES, 
na’creous (Fr., nacre, mother-of- 
pearl), with pearly lustre (Hei- 
nig). 
Nama‘tium (vaya, vauaros, a stream), 
a brook formation ; namatoph’ilus 
(peréw, I love), brook-loving ; 
Namatophy’ta (gurdv, a plant), 
brook plants (Clements). 
Nannan’der, a dwarf-male (Witt- 
rock); cf. NANNANDROUS. 
Nas‘tie (vacrdés, pressed close), auto- 
matic curvature of a dorsiventral 
organ influenced by continued 
growth in length (De Vries). 
nau'tilold (eléos, resemblance), like 
the shell of a nautilus (Heinig). 
navic'ulaeform (forma, shape) = 
naviculoid. 
Neck, add, (5) the prolongation of 
the apex of the perithecium in 
Pyrenomycetes. 
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nect/ary, (2) employed by Linnzus 
for the utricle of Carex. 
Nee’dle, the stiff linear leaf of Coni- 
ferae ; doub’le ~, the specially 
metamorphosed leaf -organ of 
Sciadopitys. 
Neidioplank’ton (vyls, a nymph, + 
PrLankTon), Forel’s term for plank- 
ton organisms possessing swimming 
apparatus. 
Nema‘tium, water margin plant-for- 
mation (Ganong) ; cf. NaMaTiUM. 
Ne’ophyte (g¢urov, a plant), newly 
introduced plants (Rikli). 
Nepenth’in, a proteolytic enzyme 
occurring in the pitchers of 
Nepenthes. 
Net-plasmo’dium (+ PuLasmopium), a 
state of the Acrasieae, due either to 
fusion or merely contact (Olive). 
neu’trophile (¢:Aéw, I love), a hy brid 
word for elements which do not 
take up either acid or basic stains, 
as hyalosomes. 
Nex’us (Lat.), a connection. 
Ni'trophytes (virpoy, potash or soda, 
gurov, a plant), nitrophilous plants, 
thriving best on soils affording 
most alkalies (Schimper). 
Nix’us (Lat., an effort), affinity, as of 
one species to another of the same 
genus. 
no’dal Plex’us, the net or transverse 
girdle of bundles which sometimes 
exists at a node; ~ Wood, cf. 1n- 
FRANODAL, SUPRANODAL. 
Nom‘ium, pl. -ia (vouds, a pasture), 
es formation ; nomoc’ola (colo, 
inhabit), nomoph’ilus (gAéw, [ 
love), dwelling in pastures ; Nomo- 
phy’ta (furov, a plant), pasture 
plants (Clements). 
nonmar‘itime, inland (Kearney) ; 
Nonoccur’rence, employed by 
Kearney to denote absence from 
a given locality ; mnon’saline, 
shunning salt, as plants of inland 
localities (Kearney) ; nonun’dulate, 
flat, not wavy (Kearney). 
nostocha’‘ceous, resembling Nostoc or 
allied to it (Archer). 
Nothog’amy (vé0os, bastard, -ydyos, 
marriage), heteromorphic xeno- 
