concolorous 



conical 



concolor'ous, cmi' color (Lat., of one 

 colour), unifoiTii in tint. 



concom'itant {concom'itans, attending), 

 used of vascular bundles which run 

 side by side without being separated 

 by other bundles. 



Concresc'cHce {concresco, to grow to- 

 gether) ; (1) growing into union; 

 coalescent; (2) a synonym of 

 Cementation; adj. concres'cent ; 

 concrete', concre'ius, growing to- 

 gether. 



Condensa'tion {condcnsatio, making 

 dense) = Concentration ; condens'- 

 ing Len'ses, epidermal papillae act- 

 ing so as to focus the available light 

 on the chloroplasts in the palisade- 

 cells (Haberlandt). 



Conduct'ing Bun'dles, strands of elon- 

 gated cells in leaves and even the 

 stems of Mosses, simulating a vas- 

 cular bundle ; also used for Vascular 

 Bundles ; -^ Cells, long narrow cells, 

 associated with sieve-tubes, but 

 having imperforate walls ; '^ Sheath, 

 elongated parenchymatous cells 

 in the inner cortex of the stem, 

 continued into the leaves as an in- 

 vestiture of the vascular bundle ; '- 

 Sur'face, in the pitchers of Nepenthes, 

 upon which insects have no foothold, 

 but fall downwards ; '-' Tis'sue, a 

 loose tissue of the style through 

 which the pollen-tubes can readily 

 make their way ; Conduct'ive Tis'sue 

 is the same. 



condu'plicans (Lat., doubling), doub- 

 ling up, as conduplicaM'ia Fo'lia, 

 the leaflets of a compound leaf which 

 apply themselves to each other's 

 surfaces; condu'plicate, conduplica- 

 ti'rns, folded together lengthwi>e ; 

 Conduplica'tion, in aestivation when 

 the sides of an organ are applied to 

 each other by their faces. 



Con'dyle, Condyl'lum {k6vSu\os, a 

 knuckle), (1) the antheridium of 

 Chara, (2) the swelling which termi- 

 nates the rhizoi>last of Polytoma 

 (Dangeard). 



Cone, Co'nus (Lat.), the fruit of the 

 pine or fir-tree with scales form- 

 ing a Strobile ; '- Gen'us, a fossil 



genus only kno\\Ti by its cones ; -^ 

 of Growth, the apical growing portion 

 of the stem. 



Co'nein = Conia. 



Cone'let (disylL), the diminutive of 

 Cone, applied to a cone of the first 

 year (Mohr). 



Conench'yma {kwvos, a cone ; iyxvixa, 

 an infusion), conical cells which 

 constitute hairs (Lindley). 



conferru'minate, covferrumina'tiis 



(Lat., cemented), adherent by ad- 

 jacent faces, as the cotyledons of 

 Horse Chestnut. 



confert'ed, confert'as (Lat., brought to- 

 gether), closely packed or crowded. 



conferva'ceous, confer'void, composed 

 of threads, resembling the genus 

 Conferva. 



con'fiuent, con'Jivens (Lat., flowing 

 into), blended into one, passing by 

 degrees one into the other ; ~ Fruit, 

 a compound fruit, such as the mul- 

 berry or pineapple. 



conformed' (disyll.), coyxform'is (Lat., 

 shaped), (1) similar in form ; (2) 

 closely titting, as a seed -coat to the 

 nucellus. 



Con'gener (Lat., of the same race), 

 another plant of the same genus; 

 congeneric, belonging to the same 

 genus; Congener'ity, the condition 

 of belonging to the same genus. 



congen'ital {congenitus, born together), 

 grown to anything; strictly, of the 



same origin. 



congest'ed, congest' ns (Lat., lirought 



together), crowded, 

 conglo'bate, congluba'txis (Lat., made 



like a ball), collected into a ball. 

 conglom'erate, conglomrra'tus (Lat., 



rolled together), clustered. 

 Conglu'tin [conglAUinatus, cemented 



together), a constituent of jilant- 



casein, usually with legumin ; con- 



glu'tinate, congliitina'tiis, as though 



glued together. 

 con'gregate [congrego, to assemble), 



collected into close ]>roximity. 

 Coni'a {kwv^iov, hemlock), the active 



principle of Conium macukitwn, 



Linn., a jioisonous alkaloid. 

 con'ical, con'icus (Lat., cone-shaped). 



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