cover like 



cretaceous 



OPERCULARIS; COV eiing = VEXIL- 



LARis ; '- -Plate, in Ferns, see Steg- 

 MATA of Mettenius. 

 cowled = cucuLLATE (Crozier). 

 Crab, a disease of thfe larch, due to the 

 mycelium of Peziza Willkommii, 

 Hartig. 

 Crad'ina (xpclSos, the wild fig-tree), a 

 proteolytic enzyme existing in the 

 juice of the common fig-tree, Ficus 

 Carica, Linn, 

 cra'dling = involventia (folia). 

 Cram'pon (Fr.), hooks or adventitious 

 roots, which act as supports as in 

 ivy. 

 craspedod'romous, -ynits {KpdaircSov, a 

 border; Zp6fxos, a course), when the 

 lateral veins of a leaf run from mid- 

 rib to margin without dividing. 

 Crassinucella'tae {crassus, thick, + 

 NucELLUs), Van Tieghem's term 

 for plants whose nucelli remain of 

 considerable bulk up to the time 

 of the formation of the embiyo; 

 rf, Tenuinucellatae. 

 crass'us (Lat.), thick. 

 Crate'ra («poTTjp, a cup), a cup-shaped 

 receptacle; Crate'ria, pi., ascidia 

 which arc derived from the surface 

 of a leaf (C. Schimper) ; crate'riform, 

 crateriform'is {foTTna., shape), goblet 

 or cup-shaped, hemispheric or shal- 

 low in contour. 

 cratic'ular {craticula, a small giid- 

 iron), a resting condition of 

 Diatomaceae, in which a pair of 

 new valves are formed within the 

 original valves. 

 Cra'ay-weeds, the same as Loco- 

 weeds, chiefly species of Astragalus 

 and Lupinus which produce " Loco " 

 disease in animals which have eaten 

 them. 

 cream- colour, white with a slight in- 

 clination to yellow. 

 Creat'ospores, -ae {Kp4as, flesh, 

 -f Spore), " nut-fruited " plants 

 (Clements). 

 creep'ing, rmming along or under the 

 ground and rooting at intervals; 

 restricted by Syme to those cases 

 where there is only one, or rarely 

 two, flowering stems from each 



branch of the rhizome ; "- Stem, 

 often means Rhizome. 

 cre'meus (Mod. Lat., creamy) = 



CREAM-COLOUR. 



Crem'nad {Kp-qfivhs, a clitt"), a cliff 

 plant; Crenmi'on, a suggested 

 emendation of Cremni'um, a cliti 

 plant association ; cremnoph'ilus, 

 {(piXeo), T love), cliff- dwelling; 

 Cremnophy'ta [cpvTvh, a plant), clifl' 

 plants (Clements). 



Crem'ocarp, Cremocarp'ium {Kpffidw, I 

 hang; Kapirhs, fruit), a dry and 

 seed-like fruit, composed of two 

 one-seeded carpels invested by an 

 Qpigynous calyx, separating when 

 ripe into mericarps. 



cremoric'olor {cremeus, color, colour) 



= CREAM-COLOUR. 



Cre'na (Mod. Lat, a notch), a rounded 

 tooth or notch ; cre'nate, crena'tua, 

 scalloped, toothed with crenatures; 

 Cre'natnte, CrerMit/ra, a rounded 

 notch m*. the margin of a leaf; 

 Cren'ei, Cren'elling = Crena; 

 cren'elled crenula'ris, margined 

 with crenatures ; cren'ellate, crerul- 

 la' Ills, cren'ulate, crenula'tus, cren- 

 ate, bub the toothings themselves 

 small ; Cren'ule, a diminutive Crena. 

 Cre'nad {Kp-hvn, a spring or source), a 

 spring-loving plant ; Creni'um, a 

 spring formation ; crenoph'ilus 

 {(pi\4w I love), spring-loving; Cre- 

 nophy ta {<pvTbv, a plant), plants of 

 springs (Clements), 

 creoph'agous {Kpeas, flesh ; (pdya, I 

 eat), a synonym of carnivorous, as 

 apfilied to plants, 

 cres'cent-shaped, approaching the 

 figure of a crescent, as the leaves of 

 certain species of Passiflora. 

 Cres'cograpli {cresco, I grow ; yptuph, 

 writing), employed by Bose for an 

 instrument to measure growth. 

 Creat, (1) an elevation or ridge upon 

 the summit of an organ; (2) an 

 outgrowth of the funiculus in seeds, 

 a sort of axil ; crest'ed, possessing 

 any elevated line or ridge on the 

 surface such as may be compared 

 with the crest of a helmet, 

 creta'ceous, -ecus (a-eta, chalk), (1) 



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