compound 



confervoid 



O'vary, an ovary having more than 

 one carpel ; ~ Pistil, two or more 

 carpels coalescent into one body ; 

 Raceme', = PANICLE ; ~ Spike, 

 occurring frequently on grasses, 

 when the inflorescence is made up 

 of spikes ; ~ Spore, = SPORIDESM ; 

 ~ Spor'ophore, formed by cohesion 

 of the ramifications of separate 

 hyphal branches, Ger. Fruchtkor- 

 per ;<~Stem, one that is branched ; 

 ^Um'toel, an association of simple 

 umbels, each ray being itself an 

 umbel. 



compress'ed, compress'us (La,t. pressed 

 together), flattened, complanate ; 

 compressis'simus (Lat. ) excessively 

 flattened. 



con (Lat. with), modified by euphony 

 frequently into com both meaning 

 " with " in Latin compounds. 



concat'enate, concateim' 'tus (Lat. linked 

 together), joined as links in a chain, 

 as strings of spores, or frustules of 

 Diatoms. 



Concaulesc'ence (con, with ; caulis, 

 stem), the coalescence of axes. 



con' cave, conca'vus (Lat. hollowed out), 

 hollow, as the inside of a saucer. 



con'centrate (con, with ; centrum, 

 centre), to bring to a common 

 centre ; concen'tric, having a com- 

 mon centre ; < Bun' dies, where one 

 element is wholly surrounded by 

 the others, as the xylem by the 

 phloem ; ^ Vasc'ular-bun'dle is the 

 same. 



Concep'tacle, Concepta'culum (Lat. a 

 receptacle), (1) originally used by 

 Linnaeus to express FOLLICLE ; (2) 

 afterwards for the fruit of Ascle- 

 piads and Apocyneae ; (3) a hollow 

 case covering the sexual organs in 

 some Algae ; (4) the peridium of 

 Fungi ; (5) the capsule of Mosses ; 

 (6) by Medicus, following Jung, 

 used for pericarp ; (7) now a general 

 expression for a superficial cavity 

 opening outwards, within which 

 reproductive cells are produced. 



conch'iform, conchiform'is (concha, a 

 shell ; forma, shape), shaped like 

 the shell of a bivalve. 



concin'nus (Lat.), neat, elegant. 



concolor'ous, con' color (Lat., of one 

 colour), uniform in tint. 



concomitant (concom'itaiis, attending), 

 used of vascular bundles which run 

 side by side without being separ- 

 ated by other bundles. 



Concresc'ence (concresco, to grow to- 

 gether) ; (1) becoming concrete ; 

 (2) a synonym of CEMENTATION ; 

 concrete', concre'tus, growing to- 

 gether. 



Conduct'ing Bun' dies, strands of elon- 

 gated cells in leaves and even the 

 stems of Mosses, simulating a vas- 

 cular bundle ; also used for Vascular 

 Bundles ; ~ Cells, long narrow cells, 

 associated with sieve-tubes, but 

 having imperf orate walls ; ~ Sneath, 

 elongated parenchymatous cells 

 in the inner cortex of the stem, 

 continued into the leaves as an in- 

 vestiture of the vascular bundle ; ~ 

 Tissue, a loose tissue of the style 

 through which the pollen-tubes can 

 readily make their way ; Conduc- 

 t'ive-Tissue is the same. 



condu'plicans (Lat., doubling), doub- 

 ling up as, conduplicant'ia Fo'lia, 

 the leaflets of a compound leaf which 

 apply themselves to each other's 

 surfaces ; condu'plicate, conduplica- 

 ti'vus, folded together lengthwise ; 

 Conduplica'tion, in aestivation when 

 the sides of an organ are applied 

 to each other by their faces. 



Condyl'ium J (i<6i>5v\os, a knuckle), the 

 antheridium of Chara. 



Cone, Co' mis (Lat.), the fruit of the 

 pine or fir tree with scales form- 

 ing a STROBILE ; <~ of Growth, the 

 apical growing portion of the stem. 



Conench'yma (Ktii/os, a cone ; ^yxi'/xa, 

 an infusion), conical cells which 

 constitute hairs (Lindley). 



confert'ed, cofert'us(La,t. brought to- 

 gether), closely packed or crowded. 



conferru'minate, confer rumina'tus 

 (Lat., cemented), adherent by ad- 

 jacent faces, as the cotyledons of 

 Horse Chestnut. 



confer'void, composed of threads, re- 

 sembling the genus Conferva. 



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