Melampyrine 
Mericarp 
Melampy’rine, Melampy’rite, a sub- 
stance occurring in Melampyrum 
nemorosum, Linn., the same as 
Dotorrs. 
Mel’anism (uédas, black), a disease 
producing blackness; melanos- 
perm’ous (crépua, seed), having 
dark-coloured seeds or spores; 
melanochlor’us (x\wpos, pale green), 
blackish green, atrovirens; melano- 
phyl'lus (gov, a leaf), having 
leaves of a dark colour. 
melastoma’ceous, resembling or per- 
taining to those plants of which 
the genus Melastoma is the type. 
Melez‘itose (Fr., méléze, larch), a 
sugar from the larch. 
Melib‘iase (mel, honey), a synonym 
of RaFFINASE. 
me'linus (y7\wos, pertaining to 
quinces), like quinces, or quince- 
coloured. 
Melitose (mel, honey), sugar from 
Eucalyptus ‘‘ Manna,” produced in 
Tasmania; also spelled Mel‘itoze, 
a synonym of RaFFINOsE; Mel'i- 
zitase, an enzyme present in 
Sterigmatocystis nigra Sacc. ; Mel’i- 
zitose, a sugar existing in Alhagi 
Maurorum, Linn. 
Mellaro’se (Ital.), the name of a 
variety of the orange in which the 
carpellary whorl is multiplied, pro- 
ducing an appearance of prolifica- 
tion (Masters). 
mel'leus (Lat., pertaining to honey), 
(1) with the taste or smell of 
honey ; (2) honey-coloured. 
Mel'ligo (Lat., honey-like juice), used 
for ‘‘Honey-dew,” the exudation 
of Aphides. 
mel’linus (mel, mellis, honey), the 
colour of new honey. 
Melittaeph’ilae (uédirra, a bee, pidéw, 
I love), flowers which are adapted 
for fertilisation by the larger bees ; 
the colour and scent are attractive 
to man also (H. Mueller). 
Melon’ida,+ Melonid’ium + (uAov, an 
apple, ¢ldos, like), an inferior, 
many-celled fruit, as an apple; 
melo’niform (forma, shape), me- 
lon-shaped ; irregularly spherical 
with projecting ribs as in Melo- 
cactus. 
Mem’ber, any part of a plant regarded 
with reference to its form and 
position. 
membrana’ceous, -ceus (Lat.), mem’- 
branous, thin and _ semi-trans- 
parent, like a fine membrane, as 
the leaves of Mosses ; Mem’brane, 
Membra'na (Lat.), a delicate pellicle 
of homogeneous tissue; Membra‘na, 
gongylifera, the hymenium of 
Fungi ; mem’branous Lay’er; ~ 
myce’lium, interwoven hyphae 
forming a layer ; membranogen‘ic 
(yévos, race), productive of a mem- 
brane; Membra’nula,t+ the indusium 
of Ferns. 
memnon’ius (Lat. from Memmnon), 
brownish black, nearly as dark 
as piceus. 
Meneblaste’ma (1777, moon=a month, 
BdAdornua, a sprout), Minks’s term 
for the soredia of Lichens. 
menisca'tus (unvicKos, a crescent), ‘‘a 
cylinder bent into half a circle” 
(Lindley); menis’coid, meniscoi’- 
deus (elds, like), thin and concavo- 
convex, like a watch-glass. 
Menisperm’ine, an alkaloid from the 
genus Menispermum. 
menstrua'lis, men’struus (Lat.), last- 
ing for a month or so; cf. BIMES- 
TRIS, TRIMESTRIS. 
Menta’gra (Lat. an eruption on the 
chin) parasit'ica=Sycosis; Men- 
ta’graphyte (gurdv, a plant), the 
Fungus supposed to cause the 
disease Mentagra or Sycosis. 
Men'tum (Lat. the chin), an extension 
of the foot of the column in some 
Orchids, in the shape of a projec- 
tion in front of the flower. 
Merench’yma (uépus, a part, éyxuya, 
an infusion), spherical cellular 
tissue; ~ Cells, unpitted cells 
in the pith of trees, with inter- 
cellular spaces, and much elon- 
gated radially ; cf. PaLisaDE CELLS; 
Mer‘icarp, Mericar’pium (xapzos, 
fruit), a portion of a fruit which 
splits away as a perfect fruit; as 
the two carpels in Umbelliferae. 
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