Elaterium 
embryonal 
Elate’rium (¢Aarjpios, driving away) 
=Coccum. 
ela’tus (Lat., exalted), tall, lofty. 
electri‘nus (#\exTpov, amber), yellowish 
amber coloured; Electrol’ysis (Adous, 
a loosing), analysis by electric force, 
adj. electrolyt’ic; electrotrop’ic 
(rpéros, direction), actuated by 
electric force; Elec’tropism, the 
electric impulse which governs 
certain plant-functions. 
Element’ary Or’gans, the constituents 
of cellular and vascular tissue. 
eleutheran’therous (éAevGepus, free, 
+ ANTHER), having the anthers 
distinct, not united; eleuthero- 
pet/alous (méradov, a flower-leaf), 
polypetalous, having free petals, 
choripetalous; eleutherophyll’ous 
(@Uov, a leaf), separate leaved ; 
eleutherosep’alous (+ SEPALUM) 
with distinct sepals. 
eleva'ted, applied to a Lichen when 
raised above the surface of its 
matrix. 
Ell, » measure variously understood, 
the English ell being 45 inches, the 
French ell 54 inches. 
Elleb’orin, an acrid resin from Hranthis 
hyemalis, Salisb. formerly con- 
sidered a species of Helleborus. 
ellip’soid, ellipsoi’dal, ellipsorda’lis 
(€\Aeys, a falling short, «léos, 
like), an elliptic solid, sometimes 
employed for elliptic; ellip’tic, 
ellip’tical, ellip'ticus, shaped like 
an ellipse, oblong with regularly 
rounded ends. 
Elitric’ulus = ELyTRICULUS. 
eloc’ular, elocula’ris (e, priv. loculus, 
a cell), unilocular. 
Elonga’tion, longa/tio (elongo, I 
lengthen), remarkable for length 
in comparison with its breadth ; 
elonga’ted, elonga’tus (drawn out in 
length). 
Elytric'ulus (2\urpov, a covering), 
Necker’s term for a floret in Com- 
positae ; ely’triform (forma, shape), 
resembling the wing-case of a beetle 
(Crozier). 
emar’cid, emar’cidus (emarcesco, I 
wither), flaccid, withered. 
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emar’ginate emargina’tus (emargino, 
to deprive of its edge), having a 
notch cut out, usually at the ex- 
tremity ;  Emarginatu’ra (Lat.), 
the notch at the apex of an 
emarginate leaf. 
Em’bolus (€uBodos, a pump piston), a 
plug, a process which projects 
downwards from the upper part of 
the cavity of the ovary of Armeria, 
and closes the foramen of the 
ovule. 
emboss’ed, umbonate, having a slight 
central nodule. 
embra’cing, clasping by the base, 
amplectant. 
Em’bryo, Hm’bryon (éuBpvor, a foetus), 
the rudimentary plant formed in a 
seed or within the archegonium of 
Cryptogams; ~ Buds, ‘‘ spheroidal 
solid bodies, of unknown origin, re- 
sembling woody nodules formed in 
the bark of trees, and capable of 
extending into branches ” (Lind- 
ley) ; ~ Cell=Odsphere ; ~Nod’ule, 
the same as Empryo Bubs: ~ Sac, 
the cell in the ovule in which the 
embryo is formed, also by some 
termed the macrospore ; fized ~, 
a leaf-bud; embryogen'ic (yevvdw, 
I bring forth), belonging to the 
development of the embryo; ~ 
Bod’ies, in Mucorini, naked masses 
of protoplasm apparently derived 
from the nuclei, at each end of the 
zygospore, ultimately fusing to- 
gether, becoming ~ Spheres, then 
surround themselves with a double 
cell-wall, and finally become Em- 
BRYONIC SPHERES (Léger) ; Embryo- 
g’eny, formation of the embryo; 
direct ~, when a spore gives rise 
to an embryo resembling the adult 
form ; heteroblast/ic ~, when the 
embryo differs widely from the 
adult form it is not borne direct, 
but as a lateral outgrowth ; ho’lo- 
blastic ~, in which the whole of the 
ovum takes part; ho’moblast/ic ~ , = 
DIRECT ~ ; in’direct ~ = HETERO- 
BLASTIO ~j; meroblast‘ic, when 
only a portion of the ovum takes 
part in the development ; embry’o- 
