Caroubin 



Carposporeae 



Car'oubin, a carbohydrate first ob- 

 served in the Carob ; Caroub'inase, 

 a hydrolytic enzyme formed during 

 germination in seeds of Ceratonia 

 b'iliqua, Linn. ; French, Caroube. 



Carpade'lium I Carpade'lus J {Kapirhs, 

 fruit ; 65r;Aoy, not manifest) = Cre- 



MOCARP. 



Carp, a suggested abbreviation of 

 Carp'el, Carpel'luin {Kapirhs, fruit), 

 a simple pistil, or element of a com- 

 pound pistil, answering to a single 

 leaf ; a female sporophyll ; carpel'- 

 lary, carpella'ris, carp'icus, relating 

 to a carpel ; -^ Disk, Williamson's 

 term for the ovuliferous expansion 

 in Williaiiisonia ; carpel'late, pos- 

 ijessing carpels; Carpel'lody (e/5os, 

 resemblance), the change of a floral 

 leaf into a carpel (Worsdell) ; Carpel- 

 lotax'y (Ta|ts, order), the arrange- 

 ment of carpels in the fruit. 



Car'phospore {Kap<pos, a scale), a plant 

 whose seeds are disseminated by 

 means of a scaly or chatfy pappus 

 (Clements). 



Carp'id, Carpid'iitm {Kopiths, fruit) = 

 diminutive of Carpel; Carp'iam, 

 (1) the oogonium modified by fer- 

 tilization, which remains as an 

 envelope around the embryo ; (2) J 

 = Carpel ; Garpoas'ci {aaKhs, a 

 wine-skin), the more complex As- 

 comycetous Fungi; all, except the 

 Exoascaceae (Kerner) ; Carpoceph'- 

 alum {K€<pa\^, a head), the sporo- 

 gonial rece})tacle of the Marchantieae 

 (Campbell) ; Carpoclo'nium (/c\w»'^ov, 

 a young shoot), "a free case or 

 receptacle of spores found in certain 

 Algals " (Lindley); Carpoderm'is 

 (Se'p/ia, skin), Bischolfs emendation 

 of PERiCAPtP ; C&r-po' deB,Carpo'dium, 

 pi. Carpo'dia, abortive carpels, as in 

 Ti/pha; Carp'ogain(7o^/ios, marriage), 

 the female organ in a procarp, pro- 

 ducing a cystocarp ; Carpog'amy, 

 the process itself; carpogen'ic, car- 

 pog'enous {yevos. race), producing 

 fruit; in Florideae, applied to 

 special cells of the carpogoni \; 

 Carp'ogone, Carpog^n'ium iyoyr], 

 offspring), (1) part of a procarp of 



carpogenous cells resulting in a 

 sporocarp after fertilization; (2) in 

 Ascomycetes = Archicarp ; carpo- 

 gon'ial, relating to a carpogonium ; 

 Carpogonid'ium (+ Gonidium), 

 suggested by Svedelius as an 

 emendation of Carpospore; Carp- 

 og'raphy {ypd(pu, I write), de- 

 scription of fruits ; Carp'olite, 

 Carp'olith {\ldos, stone), a fossilized 

 fruit, or cast, found in the coal 

 measures, probably of gymng- 

 spermous origin ; Carpol'ogist, 

 Carpol'ogus {\6yos, discourse), a 

 specialist in fruits ; Carpol'ogy, 

 classification of fruits ; Carpo'ma + 

 " a collection of spermangia " ( Lind- 

 ley), i. e. a compound sporocarp ; 

 Carpoma'nia {fiavia, frenzy), adiseewe 

 of grittiness in fruit; Carpoma'ny, 

 pistillody, or substitution of pistils 

 for stamens ; Carpomorph'a + {iJ.op<p^, 

 shape), apothecia of Lichens, re- 

 sembling true fruits. 

 Car'pon {Kapirhs, fruit), in Greek com- 

 pounds = fruit ; Carp'ophore, Car- 

 pophor'iitm {(popew, I carry); (1) the 

 stalk of a sporocarp ; (2) that part 

 of the receptacle which is prolonged 

 between the carpels as a central 

 axis, as in Ceratnium ; (3) used by 

 Fayod as inclusive of stipe, pileus 

 and lamellae of Fungi ; Carp'ophyll, 

 Carpophyl'lum {(pvKKov, leaf), syno- 

 nym of Carpel; Carp'ophytea 

 {<pvThv, a plant), Phanerogams; adj. 

 carpophyt'ic ; -^ Fun'gi, Clements's 

 term for Fungi which produce Co- 

 nidia ; Carpopod'ium {podium, an 

 elevation), fruit-stalk; Carpopto'sis 

 {irrSxTis, falling), abnormal falling 

 of the fniit ; Caiposo'ma {awfia, 

 body), the fruit-body of Fungi ; 

 Carp'osperm {ait^pixa, seed), the 

 impregnated oosphere of Algae; 

 Carp'osphere {acpalpa, a sphere), the 

 oosphere of Algae before impregna- 

 tion ( Bennett and Murray) ; Car- 

 poaporan'gia {airopa, a seed; ayye'iov, 

 a vessel), differentiated sporangia 

 in the cystocarp of Rhodophyceae ; 

 Carpospo'reae, one of Cohn's, also 

 Sachs's, main divisions of Thallo- 



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