412 GLOSSARY OF TEEMS. 



Bistre, or Bister, blackish-brown. 



Bullate, blistered, rising into convex prominences. 



Byssoid, like fine flax or cotton wool ; of a finely filamentous structure. 



Ccespitose, growing in tufts, crowded into turf-like patches. 



Campanula te, bell-shaped. 



Capitulum, a little head. 



Carbonaceous, black like charcoal, hard and black as if charred. 



Caulicolce, growing on herbaceous stems. 



Cellular-tissue, tissue composed of cells. 



Cellulose, furnished with little cells ; in its more restricted meaning it 



indicates the substance of which the cell- wall is composed. 

 Celluloso-plicate, folded so as to form small cells. 

 Cilia, plural of cilium, an eyelash. 

 Ciliated, furnished with cilia, fringed with hairs. 

 Cinereous, or Cinereus, ash-colour, intermediate tint between black and 



white. 



Cinnabar ine, scarlet tinged with yellow, vermilion. 

 Cinnamomeus, of a bright brown colour. 

 Cinnamon, a bright brown, the colour of cinnamon bark. 

 Circinate, rolled inwards from the summit towards the base like a 



crozier. 



Citron-colour, pure yellow, lemon-coloured. 

 Clavate, club-shaped. 

 Clove-brown, dark brown, the colour of cloves the dried flower-buds 



of Caryophyllus. 



Cochleate, shaped like a snail-shell. 



Collapsing, falling together, as of the sides of a hollow vessel. 

 Compressed, pressed or squeezed together. 

 Concatenate, linked together, united in a continuous series. 

 Concentrate, to bring to a common centre. 

 Concentric, having a common centre. 

 Concolorous, of one colour, similar in colour. 

 Concrete, growing together, several parts united so as to form a solid 



body. 



Confluent, merging into each other, flowing together. 

 Congregate, collected together in close proximity. 

 Conical, cone-shaped ; in the form of a solid figure having a circular 



base, and its top terminating in a point. 

 Conidia, minute cells produced by abstriction at the ends of filamentous 



cells. 



Conidiiferous, bearing conidia. 

 Connate, growing together, growing from one base. 

 Connivent, arching over to meet. 

 Constricted, drawn together, bound, contracted. 

 Contiguous, one part touching another. 



Continuous, one part passing into another without any break, some- 

 times indicating an elongated cell without any septum. 



