Collectors 



A DICTIONARY 



Common Name 



like body originating from 

 more than one flower, as the 

 mulberry; multiple fruit; 

 pseudo - syncarp. Compare 

 Anthocakpous Fruit, Ac- 

 cessory Fruit, and Aggre- 

 gate Fruit. 



COLLECTORS, see Collecting 

 Hairs. 



CdLLEN'CHYMA, tissue com- 

 posed of cells having cartilagi- 

 nous thickenings at the angles. 

 Common beneath the epidermis 

 of steins, and in other places 

 where strength is required. 



CdL'LET, an old term for collar. 



COLLE'TERS, glandular hairs 

 which secrete a gummy matter 

 (blastocolla) upon buds. 



COL'LOID, n., any substance in 

 the colloid state. 



COLLOID, adj., resembling jelly; 

 the molecular condition of a 

 class of substances, such as 

 gums, usually produced by the 

 disorganization of organized 

 matter, which mix with water 

 in all proportions and pass 

 from the solid to the fluid state 

 through all stages of softening, 

 thus differing from Crystal- 

 loids, which see. 



COLLOID'AL, see COLLOID. 



CdL'L&M, the neck or tapering 

 base of the capsule in mosses; 

 the line of junction between 

 root and stem; collar. 



CdL'MAR SHAPED, pear-shaped 

 with a rather slender neck and 

 large body. (J. J. Thomas.) 



C6L'0NY, see Cell-family. 



COL'ORED, of any other color 

 than green. 



CdLPfiN'CHYMA, epidermal tis- 

 sue composed of cells with 

 sinuous margins. Not in gen- 

 eral use. 



COLtJMEL'LA, the axis or central 



column of a pod or spore-case. 

 Usually a placenta. 



COLUMEL'LIFORM, shaped like 

 a little column or columella. 



CuL'tJMN, the united filaments 

 and styles in a gynaudious 

 flower, as an orchid. 



COLtJM'NAR, shaped like a col- 

 umn or pillar: round or nearly 

 so, tapering slightly or none, 

 and not so long as to be called 

 slender. Often applied to 

 styles. Compare Terete. 



COMA, a tuft of hairs on a seed; 

 a terminal cluster of empty 

 bracts; any tuft. 



CO'MATE, see Comose. 



COMBINED' HY'BRLD, a deriva- 

 tive hybrid in which three or 

 more species or varieties are 

 united, as when a hybrid unites 

 with a new parent form or 

 another hybrid. 



COMB-SHAPED, see Pectinate. 



COMM£N'SALlSM, see Symbiosis. 



COM'MlSSURE, a line of junction 

 of two parts. In the Marattia- 

 ceae a longitudinal partition 

 connecting the two stipules 

 and forming an anterior and a 

 posterior chamber. Compare 

 Suture. 



C6M'M6N, general, primary, or 

 universal, as opposed to partial 

 or secondary. 



C6M'M6N BtJD, one containing 

 both leaves and flowers, or one 

 from which more than one 

 flower is produced. 



CdM'MON Bu-N'DLE, a fibrovas- 

 cular bundle a part or the whole 

 of w T hich passes from the stem 

 into a leaf. 



C6M M6N LN'VOLtJCRE, one sub- 

 tending an inflorescence; gen- 

 eral or universal involucre. 



COM'MtiN NAME, any name, ex- 

 cept the "botanical name," by 

 which a plant is known. 



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