Compound Stem 



A DICTIONARY 



Conformed 



C&M'POUND STEM, a branched 

 stern. 



CdM'POUND UM'BEL, one in 

 which each primary ray bears 

 a smaller umbel instead of a 

 single flower. Formerly 

 known as Common, General, 

 or Universal Umbel. 



COMPRESSED', flattened, espe- 

 cially lengthwise laterally, the 

 horizontal diameter much less 

 than the vertical. Compare 

 Depressed, Obcompressed, 

 and Complanate. 



CONCATENATE, joined in a 

 continuous series like a chain; 

 catenate; catenulate. 



CONCATENATED, see Concate- 

 nate. 



CdNCAULES'CENCE, the coal- 

 escence of the pedicel of a 

 flower with the stem for some 

 distance above the subtending 

 bract. 



CdNQflN'TBlC, having a common 

 centre. 



C&NgEN'TRlC BUN'DLE, a fibro- 

 vascular bundle in which a 

 strand of one element is wholly 

 surrounded by the other, as in 

 some ferns in which the xylem 

 is wholly surrounded by 

 phloem. 



CdNCEP'TACLE, a name applied 

 to'sac-like receptacles of vari- 

 ous kinds, as perithecium, 

 cystocarp, follicle. 



CdNCEPTAC'ULUM, see Con- 



CEPTACLE. 



CONCH'IfORM, like half a clam- 

 shell. 



CdN'COLdR, of the same color as 

 another part or plant. Also 

 applied to several objects 

 which are all of the same color. 

 Compare Unicolor. 



CON'COLORED, see Concolor. 



CdN'C&LdROUS, see Concolor. 



C6NC6M'ITANT, applied by De 

 Bary to fibrovascular bundles 

 which run continuously side 

 by side without becoming sep- 

 arated by other bundles. 



CONCRESCENCE, see Cementa- 

 tion. 



CdN'CRETE, grown together. 



CONDUCTING gELLS, narrow 

 elongated cells associated with 

 sieve tubes, and similar to 

 them, but without perforated 

 walls. 



CONDUCTING TlS'SUE, tissue 

 composed of conducting cells. 

 Compare Conductive Tissue. 



CdNDUCT'lVE TlS'SUE, that 

 through which the pollen tube 

 passes on its way to the ovary. 

 It is often loose in texture and 

 moist with nutritive fluid for 

 the growth of the pollen tube. 



C&NDU'PLlCATE, folded together 

 forward and lengthwise in any 

 manner; complicate. Com- 

 pare Replicate and In- 

 flexed. 



CONE, the fruit of Coniferae; 

 strobile; also applied in other 

 plants to a fruit or inflores- 

 cence resembling the cone of 

 the fir or pine. See Galbulus. 



C&NFERRU'MiNATE, closely 

 united, as the cotyledons of 

 the horse-chestnut. 



C6NFER'TED, crowded or clus- 

 tered; opposed to distinct. 

 Compare Congestkd. 



C6NFERV0ID, loose and fila- 

 meutose, like conferva among 

 algae. 



CdN'FLUENT, running together 

 or blended into one; coherent. 



CdN'FLUENT FRUIT, an old term 

 for collective fruit. 



C6NF6RMED', (1) closely re- 

 sembling; (2) closely fitted to, 

 as the skin to a seed. 



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