714 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Cau’paTe.— Tailed. 
CauLgs’cENT.—With an obvious aerial stem. 
Cau’LINE.—Pertaining to the stem. 
Ce...—The structural unit of plants and animals consisting of a protoplast which in 
most plants is surrounded by a cell wall secreted by the protoplast. 
Crentrir’UGAL.—Applied to a flower cluster in which the terminal or central flower 
blossoms first. 
CentTRIP’ETAL.—Applied to a flower cluster in which the lower or outer flowers 
bloom first. 
Cuarr.—The glumes and palets of grains; the scaly hairs on the stipes of ferns; 
the bracts subtending each floret in some heads of Composite. 
CuaAa’zA.—That portion of the ovule marked by the junction of the integuments 
with the nucellus. 5 
Cnasmo’GAMous.—Pertaining to flowers that regularly open. 
Cuiamy’DosPoRE.—Thick walled spore formed within the hyphz of smuts. 
CuLo/ROPHYLL.—The mixed pigments forming the green color of all green plants 
and found in the chloroplastids. 
Cutoropias’tIp.—A protoplasmic body in the cells of green parts of plants con- 
taining chlorophyll. 
Curo/MATIN.—That portion of the nucleus which is readily colored by a basic 
dye. The substance that carries the hereditary characters from parent to 
offspring. 
CHROMO/MERE.—One of the chromatin granules, arranged linearly like the beads on 
a string, comprising the chromosome. 
Cxuromoptas't1p.—A protoplasmic body in the cells of certain parts of plants con- 
taining a pigment other than chlorophyll. 
Curo’/MosoME.—One of the bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is 
resolved during indirect nuclear division. The chromosomes carry the genes, 
linearly arranged, which control the.development of Medelian characters. 
Ci14.—Vibratory, hair-like, protoplasmic outgrowths of zodspores, bacteria, 
gametes, etc. 
CrrcuMnuTA’TION.—The repeated bending in different directions of the growing 
tips of stems of climbing plants. 
Crr’cinATE.—Rolled inward from apex toward base, as the young leaves of ferns. 
Circumscis’stLE.—Applied to the splitting open of capsules transversely into lid and 
pot portions. 
CLAp’ope.—The flattened branch which somewhat resembles a leaf. 
CiAw.—The narrowed base of some petals, as those of the Pink Family. 
Ce1sroc’AMous.—Applied to flowers that never open but are self fertilized, as in 
some Polygalas and Violets. 
Cocn’LeA.—A spirally coiled legume. 
Cor’nocyTe.—A multinucleate cell. 
Coue’ston.—The union of parts of the same whorl. 
Co’Hort.—A group of natural orders. 
Co.rorui’zA.—A root sheath through which the radicle bursts in germination. 
CoLLAt’ERAL.—Applied to fibrovascular bundles in which the phloem and xylem 
masses are arranged side by side. 
CoLLen’cHYMA.—Tissue composed of elongated prismatic cells thickened at 
their angles with a colloidal substance. 
