cnpreus 



cnticular 



cu'preus {cuprum, copper), copper- 

 coloured, with its metallic lustre. 



cupres'soid {cupressus, cypress, e:Xhos, 

 resemblance), with foliage like the 

 cypress ; appres'sed ■^ , apically 

 directed and sometimes decurrent ; 

 le'pidoid — broad and short. 



Cu'pule, Cu'pula (Lat. a little cup), 

 (1) the cup of such fruits as the 

 acorn, an involucre composed of 

 bracts adherent by their base, and 

 free or not, upwards ; (2) a free 

 sheathing structure from the pedun- 

 cle investing one or more seeds (Oliver 

 and Salisbury) ; cu'pular-shaped 

 (fiindley) set cupola-shaped; cu'- 

 pular, cupula'ris, cu'pulate, cufru- 

 la'tus, furnished with, or subteuded 

 by a cupule; Cupulifer (Lat.), cupu- 

 liGf'erous {fero, I bear), producing 

 cupules ; cu'puliform, cupuliform'is 

 {forma, shape) cupola-shaped. 



Cur'arine, an alkaloid from * * Curare, " 

 obtained from several species of 

 Strychnos. 



Cur'cuinine, the colounng matter of the 

 roots of Turmeric, Curcuma longa, 

 Linn. 



Curl, a disease, shoAvn by deformed and 

 curled leaves, ascribed in some cases 

 to Exoaseus deformans, Fuckel ; see 

 Leaf Curl; curled, when a leafy 

 organ is folded or crumpled, as 

 Endive. 



Cur'tain = Cortina. 



Curv'ature (cw7-vai'urrt, a bending), con- 

 tinued flexure or bending from a 

 right line ; ~ of Concussion, that 

 produced as the result of a sudden 

 blow ; Darwin 'ian <-' , effects pro- 

 duced on growing organs, as root- 

 tips in consequence of irritation ; 

 Sachs's ~, the difference ih gi-owtb 

 of the two sides of the root (Wett- 

 stein) ; curva'tus (Lat.), bent as a 

 bow, or arc of a circle ; Curve, the 

 same as curvature ; ^ ribbed, -^ veined 

 = CURVINERVED ; curved, bent, not 

 rectilinear. 



curvembryon'ic {curvus, bent, tfifipvou, 

 a foetus), used of any curved 

 embryo; all, except the atropous 

 (orthotropous) form; curvicau'date 



{cauda, a tail), having a curved tail ; 

 curvicost'ate {costa, a rib), with 

 curved ribs pv veins ; curviden'tate 

 {dens, a tooth), with curved teeth, 

 cur'vifonn(/o?-7«a, shape)= curved ; 

 cur'vinerved, curviner'viu^, curvive'- 

 nius (Lat.), having curved nerves, 

 esj)ecially applied to monocotyle- 

 dons ; curvip'etal {peto, I seek), 

 Vochting'^ tenn for the causes 

 which tend to curve an organ; 

 Curvipetal'ity is the condition; see 

 AuTOTP.opisM ; curvise'rial {series, 

 a row), (1) in curved or oblique 

 ranks ; (2) an orthostichy spiral ap- 

 plied to a cylindric surface (Church). 



Cushion, (1) the enlargement at or 

 beneath the insertion of many 

 lea-ves, the pulvinus; (2) the por- 

 tion of a Feru-prothallus on which 

 archegonia are borne, often per- 

 ceptibly thicker than the margins ; 

 -^ -plants, having the shoot-system 

 much branched, and densely packed 

 to form hemispherical cushions, as 

 Raoulia, Hilene acaulis and many 

 Mosses; cushioned, tufted, as in 

 some Mosses; '^ Fun'gi, Fungi 

 growing in tufts. 



Cusp, Cusp' is (Lat. a point), a sharp, 

 rigid point ; cuspidate, cv^ida'tus, , 

 tipped with a cusp. 



cut, the same as incised, or in a 

 general way as cleft. 



Cu'ticle, Cuti'cula (Lat. the outer skin), 

 the outermost skin or pelliple, con- 

 taining the epideiTuis ; Cuti'cula 

 dcn'sa, '^hym^nifarm' is, -^primordi- 

 a'lis, -^ p7-o'pna, '^ regula'ris, '^ 

 subnul'la, modifications proposed 

 by Fayod, in Ann. Sc. Nat., Bot. 

 S^r. VIL ix. (18S9) 243-244; cutic'- 

 ular, pertaining to the Cuticle; 

 '~ Beads, pearl-like glands, as of 

 Chenop)odium album; <^ Crown, at 

 the apex of papillae in certain Anon- 

 aceae ; -^ Crests, on epidermis and 

 lower side of leaf in certain Mi- 

 moseae ; -^ Epithe'lium, formed of 

 cells of the epidermis and primary 

 cortex, with thickened outer walls; 

 <- Lay'ers, more or less cuticularized 

 and apposed to the cuticle on its inner 



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