Chamaephytes 



chemonastic 



<pvTov, a plant), plants whose resting - 

 buds are but slightly above the 

 giound (Raunkiser) ; adj. chamae- 

 phyt'ic. 

 Cham'ber-flu'id, the Kammerfllissigkeit 

 of Grato, comprising cell-sap and 

 enchylema between lamellae of 

 protoplasm. 

 Cham'bered-fi'bres, fibres which have 

 become septate and seemingly multi- 

 cellular, as in the secondary wood of 

 Dicotyledons; '- O'vary, when the 

 margins of the carpels project into 

 the interior to form incomplete 

 longitudinal dissepiments, the ovary 

 remaining unilocular. 

 Cha'nar Steppe, regions in Argentine 

 predominating in Oourlieadecorticans 

 and other Leguminosae and Com[io- 

 sites (Grisebach). 

 chan'nelled, hollowed out like a gutter, 



as in many leaf-stalks. 

 Chaplet, a series of objects arranged 

 like beads on a string, as the spores 

 of Cystopus (Crozier). 

 Chap'paraUSpan. ),dry shrubby regions, 

 the plants usually leafless in summer. 

 Cliarace'tum, an association of plants 

 of the genus Chara ; Char'acine, a 

 species of camphor from terrestrial 

 Algae, as Falmella, Oscillaria, etc. ; 

 it smells like Chara, hence the 

 name ; characi'nus J CAam-like, 

 composed of a single, or a few 

 parallel tubes. 

 Char'acter (Lat., a mark), the techni- 

 cal difference whereby allied forms 

 are distinguished, as ordinal, generic, 

 specific, and so on. 

 Chart Quad'rats, metre-squares of 

 vegetation, each plant being accur- 

 ately plotted on the chart (Clements). 

 charta'ceous, -cciis {charta, paper + 



aceous), papery. 

 chasmanthe'ric, chasmanth'erous (x*'*''- 

 /io, a chasm ; avd-nphs, flowering), 

 in cleistogamic flowers, when the 

 anthers open, and liberate their 

 pollen ; Chasmantlie'ry, partial cleis- 

 togamy, when the stamens are ex- 

 serted from the otherwise closed 

 flowers (Knuth) ; Chasmocho'mopliyte 

 (xw/w*, an aggregation : ^{>tov, a 



plant), a plant of a rock-crevice ; 

 Chas'mocleistog'amy ( + Cleisto- 

 gamy), the condition of possessing 

 both cleistogamic and chasmogaraic 

 flowers (Delpino); adj. chasmocleis- 

 tog'amous; Chas'mo-dichog'amy (4- 

 Dichogamy), when cleistogamic 

 flowers are accompanied by others 

 which are chasmogamic (Delpino) ; 

 chasmogam'ic, chasmog'amous (7d/xos, 

 marriage), pollination effected dur- 

 ing expansion of the floral envelope ; 

 Chasmog'amy, the opening of the 

 perianth at the time of flowering, as 

 opposed to cleistogamic ; Chasmo- 

 pet'aly {pctalum, a flower-leaf), per- 

 sistent opening of the floral 

 envelopes : cf. Cleistopetaly ; 

 Chas'mophyte {(pvrhv, a plant), 

 a plant which grows in rock-crevices 

 (A. F. W. Schimper). 

 Check, an experiment or observation 

 for confirmation; frequently the 

 word " Control " is used for this. 

 cheilod'romous {x^thos, lip; hp6nos, a 

 course) = craspedodromous ; Chei- 

 loma'nia {ixavia, frenzy), Morren's 

 term for the doubling of the lip in 

 Orchids, as in Orchis Morio, Linn, 

 cheiroste'monous (x«^P) hand ; (TT-nnwv, 

 thread), (1) with five stamens united 

 at the base (Heinig) ; (2) relating 

 to the genus CheirosUmon. 

 chelate (x^^^. a hoof or claw), " with 

 two cleft claws ; " cf. bifurcate 

 (Heinig). 

 Chemaux'ism [chem + aH^v, growth), 

 incitement to growth by certain re- 

 agents or other compounds ; Che- 

 miotax'is = Chemotaxis ; Che'mo- 

 aesthe'sia (aTo-^rjo-is, perception by 

 sense) ; term employed by Czapek to 

 express the capacity of a plant- organ 

 to respond to chemical stimuli; 

 Chemokine'sis {Kivrtais, motion), the 

 action of zoopores induced by 

 chemical attraction ; Chemorysis 

 {\v(ris, a loosing), chemical solu- 

 tion or analysis ; Chemomorpho'sis 

 {lj.6p(pu(ris, a shaping), an alteration 

 in shape caused by some compound, 

 as galls by insect puncture ; chemo- 

 nas'tic {vaarhs, pressed close), cur- 



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