Cenanthy 



Cephalophoram 



flower); suppression of the stamens 



and pistils, leaving the perianth 



empty; adj. cenan'thous. 

 ceno'biar, cenohio'neus cenobiona'ris, 



Ceno'bium ; = coenobiar, etc. 

 cenogenet'ic [Kaivhs, recent; y^vir-qp, 



a parent), secondary (Crozier) ; cf. 



CAENOGEXETIC. 



Cen'ser-ac'tion, used for such capsules 

 as partially open by valves, the 

 seeds being gradually shaken out 

 by the wind, as in Papavcr and 

 Cerastium (Kerner); Cen'eer-holes, 

 apertures in the capsule, as in 

 Campanula. 



centifolioas {centum, a hundred ; 

 folium, a leaf), literally having a 

 hundred leaves ; actually, more than 

 can be readily counted ; Centi- 

 metre, Centime' trum, 0*3937 of an 

 English inch, roughly, two-fifths. 



oen'tonate {cento, patchwork), used by 

 F. N. Williams for the blotched 

 leaves of Hieracium. 



cen'tral {centrum, the middle), (1) re- 

 lating to the centre of a body; (2) 

 applied by Praeger to those plants 

 which are distributed centrally, and 

 die out towards the extremities of a 

 country or island ; -^ Cell, of the 

 archegonium, that in the venter 

 from which the oosphere, and 

 ventral canal-cell arise ; -^ Cord, a 

 series of cells in the leaves and other 

 parts of Mosses, which simulates a 

 vessel; -^ Cyl'lnder, in stems and 

 roots the portion within the endo- 

 dermis ; Cen'trarch (ipx^> begin- 

 ning), solid xylem, protoxylem 

 elements being in the centre (Lang) ; 

 Centraxo'nia (i|»i', an axle) = 

 Syngramme ; ^ Cent're, in Dia- 

 toms, the middle point of the per- 

 valvar axis ; cent'ric, in the middle ; 

 centrifugal {fugo, I flee), tending 

 outwards or developing from the 

 centre outwards ; Cen'triole, Boveri's 

 term for Centrosome ; centrip'etal 

 {peto, I seek), developing towards 

 the centre from without ; Centro- 

 gen'esis {yh^ris, beginning), the 

 rotate or peripheral type of form 

 assumed by plants (L. H. Bailey) ; 



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adj. controgenlc; cf. Dipleuro- 



GENESIS. 



Cent'ron [K^vrpov, a sharp point), in 

 compounds = Spur. 



Centronu'cleus {centncm , the middle + 

 Nucleus), a nucleus whose cen- 

 trosoraes are active during division 

 and intranuclear (Olive) ; Cent'ro- 

 some {(Twfia, body), minute bodies 

 believed to have directive influence 

 in nuclear division ; the central 

 particle of the centrosphere ; Cent'- 

 rospheres {<T<pa7pa, a sphere), two 

 small colourless bodies near the 

 nucleus, imbedded in the cytoplasm, 

 having a centrosome in each. 



Cen'trospores, -ae {Kevrpov, a spur + 

 Spore), plants having spurred 

 fruits (Clements). 



Centrostig'ma {centrum, the middle ; 

 arriyiiay a point) = Synstigma ; cen- 

 troxyric {ivXov, wood), referring to 

 Centrox'yly, centrifugal primary 

 woody structure (Van Tieghem) : 

 Cent'ram (Lat.), the centre of a solid 

 body. 



Centaury [centuria, a hundred), in sets 

 of dried plants, each hundred is 

 styled a century. 



cepa'ceons, -ceics {cepa, an onion), 

 having the taste or smell of garlic; 

 alliaceous. 



Cephalanthlum % {Kf<pa\h, a head; 

 iudos, a flower), the capitulum or 

 head of Composites ; anthodium ; 

 Cephaliom, a woody enlargement at 

 the apex of the stem in some 

 Cacteae, from which the flowers 

 appear ; Cephaliza'tion, the simpli- 

 fication of floral elements ; ceph'- 

 alodine, forming a head (Leighton) ; 

 Cephalo'dium, (1) a knob-like shield, 

 as in the genus Scyphophorus ; (2) 

 the capitulum of Composites ; (3) 

 peculiarly shaped, branched or 

 convex outgrowth of a Lichen - 

 thallus, in which algal cells are 

 situated ; (4) a synonym of Tuber- 

 CULUM ; ceph'aloid, cephaloid'eous, 

 -(hus {el^os, resemblance), capitate ; 

 Cephalo'nion Gall, a sac-like gall, 

 joined to the leaf by a narrow neck 

 (Kemer) ; Cephalopli'onim ((poptw, 



