monanthous 
Monoépigynia 
Prantl’s word for a sporangium 
when enclosed by a hood-like in- 
dusium; monan’thous (dvfos, a 
flower), one-flowered; mon/arch 
(4px, beginning), applied to an 
xylem-bundle which consists of one 
protoxylem-group; ~ Bundle, one 
in which there is only one strand ; 
monari’nus (dppyv, male), Necker’s 
expression for monandrous ; Mon- 
as‘ter (dorhp, a star), in nuclear 
division the mother-star, the 
chromosomes forming a ring round 
the central spindle; Monax’on 
(dw, an axle), when the two 
transverse axes of an organ or or- 
ganism are equal; mone’cious = 
MONOECIOUS ; Monem’bryony (éu- 
Bpvoy, an embryo), the production 
of one embryo only; adj. monem- 
bryonic, 
Mon’grel, a cross or hybrid. 
monil’'iform, moniliform’is (monile, a 
necklace, forma, shape), necklace- 
shaped ; like a string of beads. 
Mon‘ism (uévos, one), employed by 
L. H. Bailey for ‘‘the doctrine of 
oneness; the supposition that all 
phenomena and all forms of life 
are derived from the unfolding or 
evolution of one single principle 
and substance.” 
Monob’asis (udvos, one, Bdois, base), 
when the root is reduced to a small 
unbranched portion, as though it 
were only the base of the stem ; 
Monoblas’tus (@d\acrds, a shoot or 
bud), used of Lichen-spores when 
possessing a single cell ; Monocaro’- 
tin ( + Carortin) a lipochrome pig- 
ment allied to Carotin, the colour- 
ing of the root of the carrot ; Mon’- 
ocarp (xap7os, fruit), an annual or 
other plant that flowers but once 
(Crozier); monocarpel’lary, com- 
posed of one carpel only ; monocar’- 
pic, bien’nial- ~, a biennial plant, 
peren’nial- ~, a plant which lives 
many years before fruiting and 
perishing ; monocar’pian, monocar- 
pia'nus, monocar’picus, monocar’- 
pous, only fruiting once; mono- 
cellular (cellula, a little cell), 
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cited by Urozier for UNICELLULAR ; 
monoceph’alous, -lus (xepadrh, a 
head), bearing a single head or 
capitulum ; monochas‘ial (ydous, 
separation), a cyme with one main 
axis; Monoch’asy, a uniparouscyme, 
either pure, or resulting from the 
reduction of cymes (Urban) ; Mono- 
chlamyd’eae (xAauvs, a mantle), a 
large division of Phanerogams 
which have only one set of floral 
envelopes ; monochlamyd’eous, 
-deus, having only one kind of 
perianth ; monochro’mic (xpdua, 
colour), of one tint, unicolorous ; 
monocli’nous, -mus, monoclin’ian 
(kAwy, a bed), (1) hermaphrodite, 
having both stamens and pistils in 
the same flower ; (2) applied to the 
capitula of Composites which have 
only hermaphrodite florets ; Mono- 
cotyle’don (xorvAndwv, w hollow), a 
plant having but one cotyledon or 
seed-lobe; Monocot’ylae, was sug- 
gested by L. Ward as a shortened 
term; monocotyle’donous, with a 
single seed-lobe, as grasses and 
palms; monocy’clic (xvdxXos, a cir- 
cle), (1) when the members of a 
floral series are in one whorl, as 
the calyx, corolla, etc.; (2) annual 
plants; monodichlamyd’eous (é, 
twice, xAauls, a mantle), having 
either one or both sets of floral en- 
velopes ; monody’namous (dv vais, 
power), with one stamen much 
longer than the others; Monoe’cia 
(olkos, a house), a Linnean class 
characterised by having flowers 
with the sexes separate, but on 
the same plant ; monoe’cious, -cius, 
the stamens and pistils in separate 
flowers, but borne on the same in- 
dividual ; ~ Homog’amy, fertiliza- 
tion from another inflorescence 
of the same plant (Delpino) ; 
monoec’iously polyg’amous, hav- 
ing hermaphrodite and unisexual 
flowers on the same specimen ; 
Monoe’cism, the state of pos- 
sessing monoecious flowers; Mo- 
noépigyn'ia (érl, upon, yuh, w 
woman), a class in Jussieu’s system 
