cruciate 



Crypta 



id'ia, those gonidia formed by two 

 divisions at right angles to each 

 other ; Cru'cifer (Lat. cross-bearing), 

 a phmt with four petals and tetra- 

 dynamous stamens ; cruciferous, 

 cross-bearing, used of the corolla of 

 Crucifers, which have four petals ; 

 CTu'citorm, cruciform' is (Lat.), cross- 

 shaped. 



cruenta'tus (Lat. stained with blood), 

 dyed or blotched with red. 



cruent'us (Lat. gory), dark purplish 

 red, the colour of gore. 



crum'pled = corrugai e ; -- Aestiva'- 

 tion, when folded in bud irregularly, 

 as in the poppy. 



Cru'ra (pi. of cr^ts, a leg), divisions of 

 the teeth of the peristome in Mosses. 



cru'ral, crura' lis (Lat. pertaining to the 

 legs), ''somewhat leg-shaped; used 

 mainly in composition " (Crozier). 



Crust, Criost'a (Lat. rind or shell), the 

 hard and brittle part of certain 

 Lichens ; crusta'ceous, -eus, of brittle 

 texture, some Lichens are thus 

 termed ; crust'ose = crustaceous ; 

 crustuli'nus, toast-colour, darker 

 and warmer in tint than a cracknel 

 biscuit. 



Cry'mad {Kpvixhs, cold), a polar plant, 

 Crymi'um, a " polar barrens " forma- 

 tion ; crymoph'ilus {<pi\4w, I love), 

 dwelling in polar regions ; Cry'mo- 

 phyte {(puThv, a plant), a polar plant 

 (Clements) ; adj. crymophyt'ic. 



Cry'opbyte (^pyos, frost, <pvThv, a plant), 

 a glacial association of microphytes 

 periodically exposed to ice cold water 

 (Warming); cryoscop'ic ((r/coirew, I 

 see), observation of low temperatures 

 as a method ; Cryos'copy, the study 

 described ; Cryot'ropism {rpov^, a 

 turning), movements influenced by 

 cold or frost. 



Crypt {cry} ta, a vault), used by 0. Hens- 

 low for the front cavity of a stoma ; 

 Cryp'ta, applied to sunken glands, 

 receptacles for secretions of plants in 

 dotted leaves. 



cryptan'tlious {Kpvirrhs, hidden, 6.v6os, 

 a flower), an emendation of cleist- 

 anthous ; the stamens remaining 

 enclosed in the flower (Davis); 



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Cryptan'thery is the condition ; 

 cryptobio'tic {$ios, life), Kuntze's 

 suggested expression for those lowly 

 organisms which ap})eared in geologic 

 times, but have left no trace of their 

 existence ; Crypt'oblast {fiKaa-rhs, a 

 bud) = KuYPTOBLAST ; Cryptoco- 

 tyle'dons ( + Cotylkdon), a group to 

 contain syncotyledonous and mono- 

 cotyledonous plants (Agardh) ; 

 cryptocryst'alline (+ Crystal), of 

 the minute crystals in plant-cells 

 (Kraemer) ; Cryptogam'ia {ydfios, 

 marriage), plants destitute of sta- 

 mens, pistils, and true seeds, but 

 often reproduced as the result of a 

 sexual act ; cryptogam ian, crypto- 

 gam'ic, cryptogam' ic us, cryptog'am- 

 ous, belong to the sub- kingdom just 

 defined; cryptog^am'tc Wood, the 

 centripetal portion of the xylem in 

 certain fossil Cycadoxylese ; Cryp- 

 tog'amist, a botanist devoted to the 

 study of flowerless plants ; Cryptog'- 

 amy (1) the state of concealed fruc- 

 tifii ation ; (2) the condition of 

 cryptogamous plants ; Cryptohy'brid 

 (4- Hybrid), a term for a hybrid 

 which displays unexpected charac- 

 ters ; Cryptone'ma'a [vrifia, a thread) 

 small cellular threads produced in 

 cryptostomata ; Cryp'tomere {ji^pos, 

 a part), applied to plants possessing 

 latent characters ; Cryptom'erigni is 

 the condition; cryptom'erous, having 

 latent characters which show in the 

 crossed offspring ; cryptoner'viua 

 {nervus, a nerve), the nervation hid- 

 den, as by hairs or texture of the leaf; 

 Cryp'tophyte (^uT^v, a plant). Crypto- 

 phb'tum, a cryptogamous plant ; 

 Cryptophyti'um, an association in 

 .which HEMiCRYPTorHYTEs and Geo- 

 PHYTES together are dominant 

 (Vahl); Crypt'opore, adj. cryptop'- 

 orous, -rxis (+ Poke), applied to 

 stomata which are below the plane 

 of the epidermis; cf. phaneropor- 

 ors ; Cryptostom'ate (o-rd/io, a 

 mouth), barren conceptacles in some 

 Algae, containing hairs, or para- 

 physes. 

 Crypts, stomatal pits. 



