albiflorous (albiflorus)

[ Albigenses (al-bi-jen'sēz), n. pl. [ML., > F. Al bigeois, inhabitants of Albi.] Albi.] A collective name for the members of several anti-sacerdotal sects in the south of France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: so called from Albi, in Langue doc, where they were dominant. They revolted from the Church of Rome, were charged with Manichæan errors, and were so vigorously persecuted that, as sects, they had in great part disappeared by the end of the thirteenth century. Schmarda to constitute with the Seison a separate group, Perosotrocha. They are internal parasites of various oligochæto us annelids, such as the earthworm. 2. A genus of dipterous insects. Rondani, 1843. -3. A genus of cœlenterates. Thomson, 1878. Thomson Albert i ba . See ba 3. Albertiidæ (al-ber-ti'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Albertine (al'bėr-tin), a. Of or pertaining to the younger and royal branch of the Saxon house which descended from Albert (G. Albrecht ), Duke of Saxony (1443-1500). - Albertine tracts, pamphlets dealing with economic subjects, written about 1530 under the auspices of the Albertine branch of the Saxon house, and in opposition to a debasement of the currency proposed by the Ernestine branch of the same house. The Albertine tracts , according to Roscher, exhibit such sound views of the conditions and evidences of national wealth, of the nature of money and trade, and of the rights and duties of Governments in relation to economic action, that he regards the unknown author as entitled to a place beside Raleigh and the other English "colonial-theorists" of the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 356.