multipartite 
membranous 
many-bearing, applied to a cyme 
which has many axes; multipar’- 
tite, multiparti’tus  (partitus, 
divided), many times divided, 
much cut. 
mul'tiplex (Lat. with many folds), 
where many of the same parts 
occur together ; mul’tiple Corol’la, 
one that has more than one whorl 
of petals; ~ Fruits, the fruit 
of a flower-cluster when confluent 
into one mass ; ~ Pri'mary 
Root, a root with several main 
divisions from the crown, as in 
Dahlia (Crozier) ; multipli/cate 
(plica, a fold), folded often or 
repeatedly ; ~ Flow’er, a double 
flower ; Multiplica’tion, multiplica’- 
tus (Lat. ,increasing),augmentation, 
pleiotaxy, pleiophylly ; adj. multi- 
plica’tus ; multipolar (polus, a 
pole), with more than two poles; 
~ Spin’dle, Guignard’s term for 
an achromatic spindle when ex- 
tending in a star-shape between 
several nuclei; Multipolar’ity, the 
state in question; multira’diate, 
multiradia’tus (radius, a ray), with 
many rays. 
multira’mose (multus, many, ramus, 
a branch), much branched ; multi- 
sep’tate, multisepta’tus (septum, a 
hedge), with many partitions ; 
multise’rial, multiseria’lis, multise’- 
riate, multiseria/lis (series, a row), 
in several series; multisil’iquous 
(+S1r1qva), having many pods or 
seed-vessels. 
Mummifica’tion of fruits, used by 
Tubeuf to express the fungal rest- 
ing body or sclerotium. 
mu’niens (Lat.) fortifying ; munien’- 
tia Fo’lia, protecting leaves which 
overhang or otherwise guard parts 
which need protection. 
mu’ral, mura’lis (Lat., pertaining to 
a wall), growing on walls; mura’- 
rius (Lat.) means the same. 
mu'ricate, murica’/tus (Lat., like 
murex), rough, with short and 
hard tubercular excrescences ; 
muric’ulate, muricula’tus, diminu- 
tive of the preceding. 
mu’riform, muriform'is (murus,a wall, 
Jorma, shape), (1) flattened cellular 
tissue, with cells resembling bricks 
in a wall ; (2) Koerber applies the 
term to certain Lichen-spores. 
muri’‘nus (Lat., of mice), mouse- 
coloured. 
Muscardine’ (Fr.), a silkworm disease 
caused by Botrytis Bassiana, Bals. 
muscar’iform, muscariform’is (mus- 
carium, a fly-flap, forma, shape), 
(1) fly-brush shaped ; (2) like the 
enus Jfuscari as to habit or in- 
orescence ; Mus‘carine,a poisonous 
alkaloid from Amanita muscaria, 
P. Karst. ; Musca’rium (Lat.), a 
loose and irregular corymb. 
Mus’ci, sing. Mus’cus (Lat.), Mosses ; 
mus’ciform, musciform'is (forma, 
shape), moss-like in appearance ; 
muscic’olous (colo, I inhabit), grow- 
on Mosses ; mus’coid (eldos, like), 
resembling or belonging to Moss; 
Muscol’ogy (Adyos, discourse), a 
hybrid term for BryoLoey; an 
account of Mosses. 
mush’room-head’ed, a cylindric body 
topped by a convex head of larger 
diameter ; fungiform. 
muta’bilis (Lat.), changeable, either 
in form or colour. 
mu'ticous, mu’ticus (Lat. curtailed, 
docked), pointless, blunt, awnless. 
mu'tilus (Lat. maimed), applied toa 
flower nearly or wholly wanting 
the petals. 
Mu'tualism (mutual+ism), the same 
as Commensalism; that is, an 
association of two organisms which 
is beneficial to both ; also termed 
Mu‘tual Par’asitism. 
Mycelconid’ium (+Conr1pIum) (uvKys, 
a mushroom), A. Fischer's term 
for StryLosPpoRE; Mycele’ = My- 
CE/LIUM ; myce’loid (eldos, like), re- 
sembling a mycelium; myce’lial, 
relating to a mycelium ; ~ Lay’er= 
MEMBRANOUS MYCELIUM ; ~ Strand, 
fibrous mycelium ; Myce‘lium, the 
vegetative portion of the thallus of 
Fungi, composed of hyphae; fila- 
men’tous ~, the thread-like loose 
felting of hyphae ; mem’branous ~ 
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