BYSSOGENE

(Fr.), adj.?n, From Svooos (see By us), and yevvay, to engender. Producing by us. [A, 385.] - BYSSOID, adj. Bi*s’oid. Lat., by oidews (from Bicoos [see By us], and elôos, resemblance). Fr., by oide. Ger., by usartig. Resembling a eee composed of a fringe of filaments of unequal length. [B, 19.] BYSSOIDEÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. Bi*s(bu®s)-so(so?)-i*d(ed)/e*-e- (a8-e?), Fr., bys soïdées. Of Kickx, a family of Fungi, corresponding nearly to the Hyp homy cetes and including the divisions Mucedineæ, Mucorineæ, and Asconemeæ; of Schulz, a family of Fungi (Nema to spore), comprising the sections By acea, Phyllerica, Racodicea, and Cœnogonea. [B, 121, 170.] "