corymbous 



Cremocarp 



corymbo'sus ; corym'bous, arranged 

 in corymbs ; corymb'ulose, -lous, in 

 small corymbs. 



Corynidla(Kopw?7, a club), "Processes 

 sunk into the margin of the ger- 

 minating leaf of Ferns, and con- 

 taining spiral threads" (Lindley) 

 [ = Antheridia?]. 



Coryphyll'y (Kopv<f>r], the crown of the 

 head ; <f>v\\ov, a leaf), a monstrosity 

 in which the axis ends in a leaf, 

 sometimes coloured. 



Cosmop'olite (/c6o>ios, the world ; 

 7r6\t?, a city), a plant of well- 

 nigh universal distribution ; cos- 

 mopolitan, distributed throughout 

 the world. 



Cos'ta (Lat. ), a rib, when single, a 

 midrib or middle-nerve ; cos'tal- 

 nerved, nerves springing from the 

 midrib; cos'tate, costa'tus (Lat.), 

 ribbed, having one or more primary 

 longitudinal veins ; costa'to-veno'- 

 sus, when the parallel side veins 

 of a feather-veined leaf are much 

 stouter than those which inter- 

 vene ; cos'taeform (forma, shape), 

 applied by J. Smith for primary 

 veins in ferns when parallel to each 

 other and very evident ; Cost'ulae, 

 used by the same author for the 

 primary veins of Fern-segments ; 

 costel'late, having small ribs. 



Cot'ton, the hairs of the Cotton-pod ; 

 cot'tony, pubescence of long soft 

 hair. 



Cotyle'don (KorvXySuv, a hollow), ap- 

 plied first by Linnaeus to the seed- 

 lobes, the first leaves of the embryo, 

 one in monocotyledons, two or more 

 indicotyledons, rarely a whorl borne 

 by the radicle or caudicle ; cotyle- 

 dona'ris, union or close approxima- 

 tion of the seed-lobes ; Cotyle'donoid 

 (eZSos, resemblance), a germinating 

 thread of a Moss, a protonema ; 

 cotyle'donous, cotyledo'neus, pos- 

 sessing seed-lobes. 



cotyl'iform, cotyliform'is (KorvXrj, a 

 hollow, forma, shape), dish-shaped 

 or wheel-shaped, with an erect 

 or ascending border ; Cot'yloid Cell, 

 a cell of doubtful function, pos- 



sibly a sister-cell of the embryo 



sac. 

 Coum'arin, the fragrant principle of 



the Tonquin bean, Dipteryx 



odorata, Sw. 



Cou'ple-cell, Hartog's term for ZYGOTE. 

 Cour'baril, a resin from Hymenaea 



Courbaril, Linn. 

 Cov'er = OPERCULUM. 

 Cov'er-cell, of Hepaticae, the apical 



cells of the neck of a young arche- 



gonium (Campbell) ; cover-like = 



OPERCULARIS ; COV' Cling = VEXIL- 



LARIS~ -Plate, in Ferns, see STEG- 

 MATA of Mettenius. 



cowled = CDCULLATE (Crozier). 



cra'dling = INVOLVENTIA (folia). 



Cram'pon (Fr. ), hooks or adventitious 

 roots, which act as supports, as in 

 ivy. 



craspedod'romous, -miis (Kpaa-rreSov, 

 a border ; Spo/uos, a course), when 

 the lateral veins of a leaf run from 

 midrib to margin without dividing. 



crass'us (Lat.), thick. 



Crate'ra (Kpar-fjp, a cup), a cup-shaped 

 receptacle ; crate'riform, crater i- 

 form'is (forma, shape), goblet or 

 cup-shaped, hemispheric or shallow 

 in contour. 



Crab, a disease of the larch, due to the 

 mycelium of Peziza WiHkommii, 

 Hartig. 



cratic'ular (craticulu, a small grid- 

 iron), a resting condition of 

 Diatomaceae, in which a pair of 

 new valves are formed within the 

 original valves. 



cream- colour, white with a slight in- 

 clination to yellow. 



creeping, running along or under the 

 ground and rooting at intervals ; 

 restricted by Syme to those cases 

 where there is only one, or rarely 

 two, flowering stems from each 

 branch of the rhizome ; ~ Stem, 

 often means RHIZOME. 



cre'meus (Mod. Lat., creamy) = 



CREAM-COLOUR. 



Crem'ocarp, Cremocarp'ium(Kpe(jidu, I 

 hang ; Kaptros, fruit), a dry and 

 seed-like fruit, composed of two 

 one-seeded carpels invested by 



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