Macroblast 
malic 
Mac’roblast (Bd\acros, a bud), a 
normal wood bud (Hartig); ma- 
croceph’alous, -lus (kepady, head), 
big headed, dicotyledonous em- 
bryos with consolidated cotyledons; 
Macroconid’‘ium (+ ConrIpiIum), a 
large conidium produced at a dif- 
ferent period in the life-cycle 
to a Mrcroconipium; Mace‘ro- 
eyst (kvoris, a bag or pouch), one 
of the vesicles which originate the 
fertile tissue in Pyronema, etc. (Tu- 
lasne) ; Macrodi’odange (+ Diopz, 
dyyetov, a vessel) Van Tieghem’s 
term for MacRoSPORANGIUM ; Mac- 
rodi’ode, the same botanist’s word 
for MacrosporRE; Macrogam’ete 
(yauérns, a spouse) = MEGAGAMETE ; 
Macrogonid’ium (+yévos, offspring, 
eldos, like) a gonidium of large size 
in comparison with others produced 
by the same species ; cf, MEGALOGO- 
NIDIUM; macrophylline (@v))or, 
a leaf), macrophyl'lous, having 
elongated leaflets or leaves ; 
macrophyt’ic (gurov, a _ plant), 
used by Schimper for the large 
forms of marine Algae; Mac’ro- 
plast (wAacros, moulded), Lanke- 
ster’s term for large disc-like 
plastids in Bacterium rubescens ; 
macrop’odal, macrop’odous (zods, 
modos, a foot), used of an embryo 
with enlarged hypocotyl forming 
the greater part of itsmass; (Crozier 
adds another meaning, applied toa 
leaf with a long petiole); Macro- 
scle’reids (cxAnpds, hard), Tschirch’s 
term for long stone-cells with 
blunt ends; macroscop’ic (cxoréw, 
I see), viewed by the naked eye, 
opposed to microscopic ; Macro- 
sporan’gium (o7opd, seed, dyyetov, 
a vessel), (1) a sporangium contain- 
ing macrospores ; (2) the nucellus of 
the ovule of Phanerogams ; macro- 
sporan’giate, possessing macrospo- 
rangia ; Flow’ers, carpellary 
flowers, pistillate flowers destitute 
of stamens; Mac’rospore ; (1) the 
larger kind of spore in vascular 
Cryptogams; (2) the embryo- 
sac in Phanerogams; Macrospor’- 
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madefac’tus (Lat.), moistened, 
Madu'ra, 
ophyll (¢v\\ov, a leaf) =CARPEL; 
macrosporophyl'lary, carpellary ; 
macrosty’lous (crddos, a post), long- 
styled ; Macrosym’biont (cuufidw, I 
live with), the larger of the asso- 
ciated organisms in symbiosis ; 
Mac’rotherm (#épun, heat) = MEGa- 
THERM; Macrozoogonid’/ium ({Gov, an 
animal, + Gonrpium), in Ulothrix 
the larger kind of zoospore, which 
germinates independently ; ¢f. M1- 
CROZOOGONIDIUM ; Macrozo’ospore, 
a large zoospore when compared 
with others of the same species. 
Mac’ula (Lat.), a spot ; Mac’ulae ; (1) 
areolated pits of Coniferae ; (2) also 
organs on the aérial stem of Cyatho- 
phorum, large round white dots in 
two rows, probably water-storing 
organs ; maculifor’mis (/formis, 
shape), used by Koerber for 
apothecia which are shaped like 
irregular spots; mac’ular, mac’u- 
late,mac’ulose (maculosus, spotted), 
blotched or spotted ; Macula’tion, 
the arrangement of spots on a 
plant (Crozier). 
as 
plants in an herbarium previous to 
examination. 
the fungus-foot disease 
supposed to be caused by Chio- 
nyphe Cartert, Berk. 
mag’moid (udyua, dregs, efdos, like), in 
Lichens, ‘‘like an Alga, consisting of 
spherical green cellules” (Leighton). 
mal’acoid (uadax0os, soft, eldos, like), 
mucilaginous ; Malacoph’ile (¢\éw, 
I love), plants which are fertilized 
by snails or slugs. 
male, a plant or flower which bears 
stamens or their analogues ; 
Cell, the smaller of two unequal 
gametes; ~ Flow’ers, staminate 
flowers; ~ Or’gans, those struc- 
tures which, in fertilization, are 
concerned, as the stamens, anthe- 
ridia, etc.; ~ Prothal’lium, one 
which bears antheridia only; ~ 
System, all that part of the flower 
which belongs to the stamen. 
~ 
malic (malum, an apple), pertaining 
to apples, as ~ Ac’id, which is said 
