Hydrophore

[Gr. hudor, and phoreo, to bear.] An instrument for obtaining specimens of the water of a river, a lake, or the ocean at any particular depth. Hydro pht halm i a, or Hydrophthal'my, n. [Gr. hudor, and ophthalmos, the eye.] ( Med.) A swelling of the bulb of the eye, from too great a collection of vitreous or aqueous humors. They Hydrophyllaceæ, n. ( Bot .) An order of plants, alliance Cortusales. Diag. Stamens alternate with the sepals, two styles, and a circinate inflorescence. are herbs, shrubs, or small trees; leaves alternate, or the lower opposite, often lobed; flowers in circinate racemes or unilateral spikes, rarely axillary and soli- tary; calyx five-cleft, the sinuses usually with reflexed appendages, persistent; corolla five-lobed, regular, with ten melliferous scales near the base; stamens five, in- serted into the base of the corolla; anthers two-celled, versatile; ovary free, simple, one-celled; style single, terminal, bifid; stigmas two; placenta two, parietal or on stalks from the base of the cavity; fruit-capsule in- vested with the permanent calyx; seeds few, crustaceous; embryo conical, in abundant cartilaginous albumen. The order includes 16 genera and 75 species of the typi- cal genus Hydrophyllum . There are two familiar Ameri- can species, H. Virgin i cum , the Virgin i an Water-leaf, and H. Can a dense, the Canadian Water-leaf or Bur-flower. Hydrophyte, n. [Gr. hudor , and phyton , a plant.] ( Bot .) A plant which thrives in water; a name given to algaceous plants, and sometimes confined to those which are found in fresh water.