Asphyxia 
(ADDITIONS) 
Avoform 
Asphyx’'ia (dogvéia, without a pulse), 
in plants, insensibility brought on 
by suspension of respiration due 
to absence of oxygen (Dutrochet). 
Aspidia’ria, formerly the name of a 
genus of fossils, now applied to a 
lepidodendroid stem when the cor- 
tex has been stripped off (Scott), 
assim'ilative, conducing to ASSIMILA- 
TION; ~ Fil’aments, sterile hairs 
which grow intermixed with the 
sporangia of such Algae as Ecto- 
carpus. 
aster iate (Heinig) = asTEROID. 
Asterid'ia, pl. (cdvov = diminutive), 
spinous or stellate bodies occurring 
in the cells of Conjugatae, possibly 
some parasitic form (Archer) ; As- 
terosphae’ria, pl. (cpatpa, a sphere), 
a synonym of the same. 
Astigmat’icae, Knuth’s term for wind- 
fertilized plants which do not pos- 
sess stigmas, such as Gymnosperms. 
astrag’aloid (acrpdyados, a knuckle- 
bone, dos, resemblance), dice- 
shaped (Heinig). Nore. — This 
definition has no reference to any 
affinity with the genus Astragalus. 
As’trophe, or As’trophy (a,not, orpodh, 
a turning), negative EpistRoPHE 
(S. Moore); Asyn’gamy (cvv, to- 
gether, yduos, marriage). the natural 
prevention of cross-pollination by 
the respective plants or species 
flowering at different times (Ker- 
ner); asynthet/ic (c’v@eros, com- 
pounded) Gonid’ia, free Lichen 
gonidia, occurring on the outside 
of the thallus (Koerber). 
atavist’/ic (atavus, an ancestor), revert- 
ing to an older type of structure. 
at/omate (+ Arom), ‘‘sprinkled with 
atoms” (Stevenson). 
atrate’, atra’tous, given by Heinig as 
“turning black”; a’trous, dead 
black (Heinig). 
atyp’ic (a, not, Tuos, a type), not 
typical, departing from the type. 
Attach’ment-disc, the holdfast or 
basal hapteron of an Alga. 
aucupa’rious (aucupatorius, used in 
fowling), ‘attracting birds” 
(Heinig). 
aulacocar’pous (ai\aé, a furrow, 
xapmos, truit), with furrowed fruit, 
sulcate (Heinig). 
Au'lax-galls, galls which resemble 
stone-fruits produced by  gall- 
wasps of the genus Arla, espe- 
cially on Labiatae (Kerner). 
aurantia’ceous, like the orange, 
Aurantium, or the order to which 
it belongs (Heinig). 
auric’ulate,  auricula’tus, 
auricled. 
Au'to-allog’amy (+ALLocamy), the 
condition of a species when some 
individuals are adapted for self- 
fertilization, and others for cross- 
fertilization, as in Viola tricolor, 
Linn, (Engler and Prantl), 
Autoch’thon (atrox@wv, indigenous), 
an aboriginal form ; a native plant, 
not an introduction ; adj. autoch’- 
thonal ; ~ The’ory, the theory that 
each species originated where now 
found (L. H. Bailey). 
Autofecunda’tion (+FECUNDATION), 
self-fertilization; autogam’ic, auto- 
gamous, self-fertilized ; Autoph’agy 
(pdyw, Leat),employed by Dangeard 
to express complete fusion of 
gametes; autopot’amic (rorapos, a 
river), applied to Algae which 
have become adapted to living in 
streams; a modified form of 
tychopotamic plinkton (Zimmer) ; 
eared, 
autotrophic (rpopi, food), ap- 
plied to plants which can 
collect their own nutriment, non- 
parasitic. 
Auxan’agram, another spelling of 
AUXANAGRAMME. 
Auxiliaries, used by 8. Moore for 
SYNERGIDAE; auxiliary Nu’‘cleus, 
the nucleus of the auxiliary cell in 
Drudesnaya purpurifera, J. Agh. 
which does not fuse with the 
nucleus of the sporogenous cell 
when the cytoplasm does (Olt- 
manns); ~ Ve’sicles = SYNER- 
GIDAE. 
Av’oform (avus, a grandfather, + 
Form), the still existing stem-form 
of Ramirorm and PRAEFORM 
(Kuntze). 
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