The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . er. Rivulariaceae (riv-u-la^ri-ase-e), n. 21. [NL., < liindaria + -accse.] An orcler of usually mi-nute algio of the class Cyaiinplii/cea, typified bythe genus lihiilariu. The cells of which each fila-ment is composed form a continuous thread divided bytransverse septa, and the lllaments grow attached in tuftsto a solid substratum, or make small green fioating disksor cushions, often embedded in copious mucilage. Theordinary mode ot multiplication is by me
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . er. Rivulariaceae (riv-u-la^ri-ase-e), n. 21. [NL., < liindaria + -accse.] An orcler of usually mi-nute algio of the class Cyaiinplii/cea, typified bythe genus lihiilariu. The cells of which each fila-ment is composed form a continuous thread divided bytransverse septa, and the lllaments grow attached in tuftsto a solid substratum, or make small green fioating disksor cushions, often embedded in copious mucilage. Theordinary mode ot multiplication is by means of hormo-gones, but quiescent restiug-spores have been observed insome species. Rivularieae (rivu-la-rie-e), n. pi. [NL., < Ei-riiliirid + -ca.] Same as Ilivufariacese. rivulet (rivu-let), n. [Formerly also rivolet;with dim. suffix -ct, It. nto, rio = Sp. Pg. rh. a river); akin toSkt. y ri, run, ooze, flow. Hence (< L. rirtis)ult. E. dcrire, rival, corrival, etc. (but not )?()?-•-).] 1. A small stream or brook; a stream-let. roach. Kix-dollar of Utrecht. Museum. (Size of the original.) Some clear rivolet on land. Times nMMe (E. E. T. S,), p. fountain or by shady rimdetHe sought them. Miltnn, P. L., ix, 420. 2. Inentom.: («) One of certain geometrid mothsof the genus Jimmelesia or Ciiliiria: a collectorsname in England. The small rivulet is E. or C. alche-niUlala; the is E. orC. alhulala ; the heath-nvulet IS E. ericetata ; and the single-barred rivulet is Eor C. un^Sa^ata. (\)) A narrow and more or lesstortuous colored band on a transparent wing :a translation of the Latin rivulis, so used inLoews monographs of the (rivtl-let-tre), n. A low evergreeneuphorliiaceous siirub, rinjUanthuti ofAustralia and Tasmania,rivulose (rivu-los), a. [< NL. *rimhsus, < a small stream: see rivulet.] In bot.,marked with lines like the rivers in a , British Discomycetes, (riks)
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