GLOSS VRY, 



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Campylodromous, applied to the manner in which 

 veins are distributed. See vol. i. p. 633, fig. 150^. 



Campylotropous, used of an ovule or seed in which 

 the nucellus, with its integuments, is bent so that 

 the apex is brought near to the point of attachment. 



Canker, a vague term applied to the disease or Fungus 

 which attacks plants and causes slow decay. 



Capillitium, the thread-like fibres, often united into 

 a reticulum, which are developed within the spores 

 of Myxomycetes and many Gasteromycetes. I 



Capitulum, a head or globular cluster of sessile i 

 flowers. I 



Caprification, the custom of hanging branches of the i 

 wild Fig in the cultivated trees so as to ensure pol- 

 lination by means of the gall-insects thus introduced. 



Caprificus, the uncultivated male form of the com- 

 mon Fig. 



Capsule, a dry, dehiscent fruit. 



Carobe di Giude, Turpentine Gall-apple, produced 

 on Pistacia Lentiscus by a Pemphigus. 



Carpel, a single-celled ovary or seed-vessel, or a single 

 cell of an ovary or seed-vessel together with what 

 belongs to that cell ; it may be regarded as a modi- 

 fied leaf. 



Carpium, or Carp, the oogonium modified by fertili- 

 zation, which remains as an envelope around the 

 embryo. Cf. vol. ii. p. 47. 

 i Carpo-asci, the more complex Ascomycetous Fungi 

 j — all except the Exoascacese. 



Carpophylla, the carpels. 

 I Caruncle, a localized outgrowth of the seed-coat; a 

 j sort of aril. 



j Caryophyllaceous, appertaining to the Pink family. 

 I Caryopsis, an indehiscent one-seeded fruit, in which 

 the tliin seed-coat adheres to the pericarp, as in all 

 cereal grains. 



Catapult-fruits, fruits in which the dispersal of the 

 seeds or fruit-segments is due to the elastic reaction 

 of the resilient jjeduncles or pedicels. 



Catkin, a pendulous inflorescence bearing flowers of 

 one sex only ; an amentum. 



Caudex, a trunk or unbranched stem. 



Caudex columnaris, an erect columnar stem, as in 

 Palm-trees. 



Caulescent, having an obvious stem rising above the 

 ground. 



Cauline, appertaining to the stem. 



Caulis, the stem or stalk. 



Caulis herbaceus, ,a herbaceous stem. 



Caulis suffruticosus, a suflfruticose stem; the stem 

 of an under-shrub. 



Caulome, a stem-structure, or the stem-like portion 

 of a plant. 



Cecidium, a gall or hypertrophy on a plant-member, 

 due to the stimulating action of an insect or Fungus. 



Cell, the structural unit in the formation of plants; 

 one of the individualized portions of which plants 

 are built up. 



Cell-membrane, the cell-wall. 



Cell -plate, used here of aggregates of cells in oia^ 

 plane. 



Cell -sap, the watery fluid contained in a cell. 



Cellular, consisting of cells. Sometimes used of 

 plants which are destitute of vessels. 



Cellulose, a carbo-hydrate of which cell-membranes 

 are composed ; the essential constituent of cell-walls. 



Centrifugal, a term applied to such inflorescences as 

 develop from the centre outwards. 



Centripetal, a term applied to Buch infl..nt»c-nc.* >« 



develop from without inwards. 

 Cephalonion gall, a sac-like gaU joined to the l.a/ 



by a narrow neck. 

 Ceratonion gall, a hollow, thick-wallwl, hornlike 



gall, belonging to the series of Mantk-galU. 

 Chalaza, the part of an ovule where nuc«Ili« and 



integuments cohere ; the base of the nucclluK. 

 Chalazogamic, applied to fertilization in flowering 



plants via the chalaza and not by the niicrunvle c <i 



in the Hazel. 11 ' J- 



Chlamydospore. the reproductive organ in w.mc 

 Fungi. 



Chloranthy, the production of green floweni; a sup- 

 posed reversion of floral structures to a primitive 

 foliar condition. 



Chlorenchyma, a term sometimes given to a gn-«n, 

 chlorophyll-containing tissue. 



Chlorophyll, the ordinary green pigment of planu 

 which is the agent in the process of carl>on anhimi- 

 lation. 



Chlorophyll-corpuscles.protoplasmiclxKlicsdiHtinct 



from, yet imbedded in, the general coll-protoplosm 



of the green parts of plants. The chlorophyll is 



restricted to these corpuscles. 

 Chromatophore, a general term for any protoplasmic 



body containing a pigment. Chlorophyll-coqjUH ii-a 



are chromatophores. 

 Chromosomes. See Fibrils. 

 Cilia, delicate protoplasmic filaments serving as organ* 



of locomotion, as in zoospores, &c. 

 Cincinnus, a form of cymose inflorescence, a one-sided 



cyme. 

 Cirrhus capreolus, a term for stem-tendribs i.e. 



branch-tendrils and flower-stalk tendrils. 

 Cirrhus costalis, a projecting or excurrent midrib, 



modified as a tendril. 

 Cirrhus foliaris, a leaf modified as a tendriJ. 

 Cirrhus peduncularis, a flower-stalk modified as a 



tendril. 

 Cirrhus petiolaris, a petiole or leaf-stalk modified 



as a tendril. 

 Cirrhus radicalis, a root modified as a tendril. 

 Cirrhus rameaneus, a tendril which is a modified 



branch. 

 Cirrhus stipularis, a tendril which is a metamor- 



pliosed stipule. 

 Cladodes, leaf-like branches. See Phylloeladf. 

 Clamp-cells, here used for the papilla like cells by 



which an epiphytic root adheres to the substratum. 

 Class, the highest grade or division of plants in the 



system of Linnaeus. In our system a cliuvs is mib- 



ordinate to a phylum, and the classes arc subdivided 



into alhances. 

 Clavate, club-shaped. 



Claw, a name given to the stalk of a iH>tal. 

 Cleistogamic, -ous, a term applied to the inconspi- 

 cuous flowers produced by many plants. Tht*c 



flowers do not open, and are sclf-poUinatod (autoj^a- 



mous). 

 Cob, a term applied to the spike on which Mni/«- 



grows. 

 Ccenobe, or Coenobium, a colony of (»o|iarato origan- 



isms united by a common investment, r.<i. Volvox. 

 Coherent, used of the union of siiiii" 

 Cohort, a group of familie.s or «rc 



nearly related to one another ; is >. ;• "••• 



nymous with Alliance. 



