textile 
theciger 
tex 'tile, tex’ tilis (Lat., woven), used for 
weaving, 
Texture, Textu’ra (Lat., a web), 
applied by Starback to hyphal 
structures in Discomycetes, thus: 
~ epidermoi’dea, the walls of 
hyphae more or less confluent; ~ 
globo’sa, when the cells are nearly 
isodiametric, the separate hyphae 
not distinguishable; ~ intrica’ta, 
the hyphae runningin various direc- 
tions, with walls not coalescent ; 
~ ob’lita, hyphae nearly parallel, 
and having small cavities with 
thickened walls; ~  porrec’ta, 
hyphae with large cavities and no 
thickened walls; ~ prismat‘ica, 
cells not isodiametric, hyphae not 
distinguishable. 
thalamifilor’al, thalamiflor’ous (@d¢\a- 
pos, a bed-chamber, flos, floris, a 
flower), when the parts of the 
flowers are hypogynous, separately 
inserted on the thalamus ; Thala- 
miflor’ae, a group of Phanerogams 
so distinguished ; Thala’mium, (1) ‘‘a 
hollow case containing spores in 
Algals” ; (2) ‘“‘ the disk or Lamina 
prolifera in Lichens”’ ; (3) ‘‘ a form 
of the hymenium in Fungals” (all 
from Lindley) ; Thal’amus, the re- 
ceptacle of the flower, the torus. 
thalas’sinus, thalas’sicus (Lat., from 
Oddacca, the sea), sea-green ; Thal- 
as‘sophyte (gu7ov, a plant), a marine 
Alga. 
Thallid'ium (@addos, a sprout), a 
vegetative reproductive body, 
especially amongst Thallophytes 
and Muscineae (Kerner) ; thal’line, 
thalli‘nus, thallo’dal, thallo’dic, 
thallo'des, thal'lose, pertaining to a 
thallus ; Thal’logams, term used by 
Focke for Vascular Cryptogams ; 
Thallog’amae (ydyos, marriage), 
Ardissone’s term for Algae ; Thal’- 
logen (yévos, race, offspring), a 
synonym of THALLOPHYTE; thal’- 
loid (eldos, resemblance), having 
the nature or form of a thallus; 
applied to Hepaticae in which the 
vegetative body is not a leafy stem, 
as Marchantia ; thalloi’dal (Crozier) 
isa synonym ; Thal’lome, a thallus- 
like growth ; cf. CavLomE; Thal’- 
lophyte (gurov, a plant), a plant 
whose growth is thalloid, no clear 
distinction of leaf or axis; Thal’- 
lus, pl. Thal’li, (1) a vegetative 
body without differentiation into 
stem and leaf ; in Fungi the whole of 
the body which does not serve for 
reproduction ; (2) Goebel’s term for 
the organ of attachment in Ter- 
niola, a genus of Podostomaceae, 
composed of coalesced dorsiventral 
branches ; ~ Gonid’ia, the gonidia 
in the thallus of a Lichen; the 
Lichen thallus is subdivided into, 
~ lepo’des, crustaceous; ~ pla’- 
codes, foliaceous; ~ thammo’des, 
fruticose. 
Tham’nium + (@duvos, a shrub), the 
bushy thallus of such Lichens as 
Cladonia rangiferina, Hoffm. ;tham- 
noblas’tus (SXacros, a bud), used 
by Koerber for a fruticose Lichen. 
Theba‘ine (from Thebes, where opium 
was much employed), one of the 
erystallized alkaloids occurring in 
the opium poppy. 
The’ca (@jxyn, a case), (1) the spor- 
angium of a Fern ; (2) the capsule 
of a Moss; (3)$ an anther; (4)t 
used by Necker for the fruit of 
Myrtaceae; (5)+ ‘‘a cell of any 
sort” (Lindley); (6) = Ascus; 
(7) used by Vines for the loculus 
of an anther ; (8) ‘‘a hollow space 
in the pericarp formed by doubling 
of the endocarp” (Gray) ; The’ca- 
phore (gopéw, I carry), the stipe of 
a carpel, homologous with the 
petiole; The’caspore (cmopt, a 
seed), = ASCOSPORE; thecaspor’- 
ous, used of Fungi which have 
the spores in Asci (Stormonth) ; 
theca’tus, bearing a theca ; the’cial, 
possessing thecae or pertaining to 
them; ~ Al’gae, the hymenial 
gonidia of Lichens; Thecid’ion, 
Thecid ium + = ACHENE; thecif’- 
erous (fero, I bear), bearing thecae 
or asci ; the’ciger, thecig/erus (gero, I 
bear), theca-bearing, applied to the 
hymenium of Fungi, and branches 
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