PARASITES

In Zoology, this term, as designative of a group of animals, is variously applied by different naturalists. Lamarck includes under it a family of antenna ted Arachnidans; Cuvier, Latreille, and Kirby apply the term to an order of Apterous insects; Straus to a tribe of Crustaceans: but all the sections include animals of parasitic habits. PARASITICAL PLANTS, are those which grow into the ti ue of other species, and feed upon their juices. Of this kind are the misletoe, the broom rape (Orobanche), the Lathrcea; and, among exotics, the monstrous Rafflesia. Such species have no proper roots. The term parasitical is, however, often applied to mo es. Orchidaceous plants, Tillandsias, and the like, which are mostly Epiphytes, growing upon the bark of trees, but deriving their food from the air by means of their own roots. PARASTATjE. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Architecture, pilasters, or rather square pillars,which stand insulated. See Anta. [s. 900]