716 PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Cor’yms.—A flat topped or convex centripetal inflorescence with the lowermost 
pedicels the longest. 
Cos’tA.—A rib. 
Coty.e’pon.—A seed-leaf of the embryo. 
Crem’ocArp.—The peculiar fruit of Umbellifere, consisting of two inferior akenes 
(mericarps) separated from each other by a carpophore. 
_Cre/NATE.—Applied to leaf margins having rounded teeth. 
CrEN’ULATE.—The margin with fine rounded teeth. 
Crip’/RIFORM.—Sieve-like. 
Cru’/crrorM.—Applied to the corolla or the calyx of flowers, the parts of which are 
arranged in the form of a cross. 
Crusta’ceous.—Applied to the thallus of a lichen that closely adheres to the 
substratum. 
Cryp’rocAM.—A plant belonging to one of the divisions of the vegetable kingdom 
below the Spermatophytes. 
Crys’tAts.—The solid geometrical forms assumed by many chemically homo- 
geneous bodies. 
Crys’TAL SAND.—See Microcrystals. 
Crys’TALLOID.—A protein body found in the aleurone grains of seed or under- 
ground parts. 
Cu_m.—A jointed stem of a grass or sedge. 
Cu’NEATE.—Wedge-shaped. 
Cu’puLte.—Applied to the concave involucre enclosing the glans of an acorn but 
also to other cup-shaped parts of plants. 
Cu’ticLeE.—A thin covering of a waxy substance called cutin on the outer wall of 
epidermal cells. 
Cu’t1n.—A fatty cell-wall constituent serving to waterproof the wall. 
Cutini’zEp.—Applied to a cell-wall infiltrated or covered with cutin. 
Cus’pIDATE.—Tipped with a sharp rigid point. 
Cyme.—A more or less flat topped determinate inflorescence. 
Cy’mose.—Cyme-like. 
Cys’ro.irHs.—Cell bodies consisting of deposits of calcium carbonate or silica or 
both on an extention of the cell wall into the cell. ; 
Cy’TrAsE.—An enzyme which digests cellulose. 
Cyto.’ocy.—The study of cells and their contents. 
Cy’ropLAsM.—The cell protoplasm outside of the nucleus. 
Decan’pRous.—Having ten stamens. 
Dectp’vous.—Applied to leaves which fall in autumn, to plants bearing such leaves 
and to the calyx and corolla which fall shortly after blossoming, before the 
development of the fruit. 
Dec’LinATE.—Curved or bent downward. 
Decompounp’.—Several times compounded, as the leaf-blades of Cimicifuga. 
Decum’sent.—Erect at base, then lying on the ground, with the end rising. 
Decus’sAte.—Applied to opposite leaves when the pairs stand at “ee angles to 
each other along the stem. 
Dents’cence.—Splitting open. 
De iqueEs’cenT.—Applied to a tree whose trunk or main stem is lost in branches. 
Dev’trom.—Having the shape of the Greek letter A. 
