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n. (Bot.) See under Indian. -- Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves. -- Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white. -- Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort. -- Robin's plantain, th…

The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a slender tube wh…

elantho, Valvata, and various other genera. -- Pond spice (Bot.), an American shrub (Tetranthera geniculata) of the Laurel family, with small oval leaves, and axillary clusters of little yellow flowers. The whole plant is spicy. It grows in ponds and swamps from Virginia to Florida. -- Pond tortoise, Pond turtle (Zoö…

Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an extrorse anther.

thout spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

A West Indian plant (Alternanthera polygonoides) somewhat resembling burstwort.

od, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.

common in Europe. They resemble the Compositæ, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected. Sweet scabious (a) Mourning bride. (b) A daisylike plant (Erigeron annuus) having a stout branching stem.

te threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoön. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.

Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever (Med.), a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); -- so called because its bark falls off in spots.…

f flowers for secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

The simultaneous maturity of the anthers and stigmas of a blossom. Gray.

A Linnæan class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.

Having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the Syngenesia.

Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.

A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. -- Trich`o*gyn"ic, a.

An undomesticated East Indian silkworn (Antheræa mylitta), that feeds on the leaves of the oak and other plants.

Opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.