cirriferous 



Cleistocarp 



aborted branch. -- The foregoing 

 are frequently spelled cirrife'rous, 

 cirr'iform, cirr'ose, Cirr'us, etc. 

 (from cirrus, a curl). 

 Cistell'a, Cist'ula(Lat., a little chest), 

 used for the apothecia of Lichens, 

 which, globular at first, burst at 

 maturity. 



Cist'olith = CYSTOLITH. 

 Cist'ome, Cisfo'ma (Kiffrri, a box; crro/^a, 

 a mouth), a membranous sac which 

 was supposed to pass beneath the 

 stomatic guard-cells ; but the cells 

 at the bottom of the stomatic 

 cavity are destitute of cuticle. 

 Cistoph'orum. (<pop<=u, I carry), "the 

 stipe of certain Fungals " (Lindley). 

 Citrell'us (from Citrus, Linn.), some- 

 what yellow ; cit'reus, lemon-yel- 

 low ; citrinell'us, yellowish ; cit'ric 

 Acid is abundant in lemon juice. 

 cladautoi'cous (/cXdSos, a branch; avros, 

 self ; OLKOS, a house), having the male 

 inflorescence of a Moss on a proper 

 branch ; Cladench'yma t (7X u M a > an 

 infusion), branched parenchyma ; 

 cladocarp'ous (xapTros, fruit), having 

 a fruit terminating a lateral shoot 

 in Mosses ; Clad'ode, a branch of a 

 single internode simulating a leaf ; 

 Clado'dium, a flat expansion of the 

 stem ; Cladodystro'phia (Sus, bad ; 

 rpo<j>T], nourishment), the perishing 

 of branches ; Clad'ophyll, Clculo- 

 phy/l'a (<pu\\ov, a leaf), a branch 

 assuming the form and function 

 of a leaf, a cladode ; Cladopto'sis 

 (TTTtDcris, a fall), abnormal casting 

 off of branches ; Cladoscle'reids 

 (<TK\-r]p6s, hard ; elSoj, resemblance), 

 stellate bodies containing calcium 

 oxalatc in leaves and floral en- 

 velopes of Euryah ferox, Salisb. ; 

 cladosiphon'ic (cricpuv, a tube) hav- 

 ing a tubular stele interrupted at 

 the insertion of branches (Jeffrey) ; 

 Cladostro'ma J (arpufj-a, something 

 spread), a receptacle or growing- 

 point covered with carpels, each of 

 which has a free placenta. 

 Clamp-cells, small semicircular hollow 

 protuberances, laterally attached 

 to the walls of two adjoining hypha- 



cells, and stretching over the sep- 

 tum between them ; <- Connec'tions, 

 the same. 



Clap'per, the water-sac, or lobule of 

 Hepaticae. 



Clasileu'cite (/cAd<m, a fracture + Leu- 

 cite), that part of the protoplasm 

 differentiated in nuclear division to 

 form the spindle and centrosomes or 

 spheres when present (Dangeard). 



Clasp'ers, Grew's term for tendrils. 



Class, das' sis (Lat. a fleet), a primary 

 group of Orders, Dicotyledons for 

 example ; Classification, arrange- 

 ment under respective groups ; 

 taxonomy, from Class to Variety, 

 or Form. 



clath'rate, clatlira'tus (Lat. latticed), 

 latticed, or pierced with apertures ; 

 ~ Cell = Sieve-tube ; Clath'rus (Lat. 

 a lattice), a membrane pierced with 

 holes and forming a sort of grating. 



Claus'ilus (cfaitsus, shut), Richard's 

 term for his macropodal embryo, 

 when its radicle is united by its 

 edges, and entirely encloses the 

 rest (Lindley). 



cla'vate, dava'tus (clavus, a club), 

 club-shaped, thickened towards 

 the apex ; clav'ellate, daveUa'tus, 

 diminutive of the foregoing ; Clav'- 

 icle, Clavic'uia (Lat. vine-tendril), 

 tendril, cirrhus ; clavic'ulate, clavi- 

 cula'tus, furnished with tendrils or 

 hooks. 



clav'iform, claviform'ts (clava, a club; 

 forma, shape), club-shaped ; clavil- 

 lo'sus (Lat.), clubbed, or markedly 

 club-shaped ; Clav'ule, Clac'ida, the 

 club-shaped sporophore in certain 

 Fungi, as Clavaria; Cla'vus, the 

 disease of Ergot in grasses, the 

 young grain being malformed and 

 club-shaped, from the attack of 

 daviceps purpurea, Tul. 

 Claw, the narrowed base of the petals 



in such plants as Dianthits. 

 Cleft, cut half-way down ; ~ -grafting, 

 insertion of a scion in a cleft made 

 in the stock. 



Cleis'tocarp (KAeiaTds, shut ; Kap-n-os, 

 fruit), an ascocarp, which is com- 

 pletely closed, the spores escaping 



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