5i2 GLOSSARY 



Chloroplast (Chlor'-o-plast), a green plastid, = chlorophyll body, 92. 

 Chromatophore (Chro-mat'-o-phore), color bearer, a colored plastid, 92. 

 Chromoplast (Chrom'-o-plast), a colored plastid, 92. 

 Cilium (Cil'-i-um, plural, cilia), slender protoplasmic threads on certain 



spores, the vibration of which causes movement of the spore. 

 Cleistogamous (Cleis-tog'-a-mous), said of flowers which remain closed 



during pollination and fertilization, 185. 

 Coenocyte (Coen'-o-cyte), a thallus, or portion of the thallus, of the fungi 



and algae, which is multinucleate, 331. 

 Coenocytic (Coen-o-cyt'-ic), applied to plant parts or cells, especially of the 



fungi and algae which are multinucleate, i.e., having many nuclei in a 



single cell, 331. 

 Collateral, side by side, 362. 

 Columella (Col-u-meF-la) , in the fungi an arching of the basal wall into the 



sporangium; in other cases a sterile column or area of tissue within a 



sporangium, 275, 276. 

 Compound, said of a pistil or ovary which is formed by the union of two or 



more carpels; of leaves one or more times divided into leaflets, 81, 144. 

 Concentric, in rings or sheaths the outer successively surrounding the inner, 



362. 



Cone, the staminate and pistillate spikes of Gymnosperms, 387-394. 

 Conidiophore (Con-id'-i-o-phore, conidium bearer), the stalk or structure 



which bears conidia, 284, 286, 287, 290, 292. 



Conidium (Con-id'-i-um, plural, conidia), asexual spore of the fungi, par- 

 ticularly those borne on free or exposed sporophores ( = conidiophores) 



of the imperfect stage, 273, 284, 287, 289, 290, 293, 294. 

 Conifer, a cone bearing tree, 187, 387-396. 

 Connective, the part of the anther which connects or unites the two locules, 



173, 193- 



Coppice, sprouts from the stump or roots of a tree, 474. 

 Conn, a solid bulb, the enlarged base of a stem, 50. 

 Corolla, the petals of a flower taken collectively; the inner of the two series 



of envelope members, 143, 152, 153, 155, 158, 162, 163, 168, 170, 171. 

 Corymb, like a shortened raceme with the lower flower stalks elongated so 



that the flower cluster is flat on top, 149, 153. 

 Cotyledon, the first leaf or leaves on an embryo plant; sometimes called seed 



leaves, because they are present in the seed, 7-18, 23. 

 Crustaceous, crustlike, 301, 302. 

 Cuticle, in botany the waxy covering on the surface of the epidermis formed 



by the cutinization of the outer portion of the cell walls, 19, 90, 457, 478. 

 Cutin, the waxy covering of leaves and certain other parts of plants formed 



by an alteration of the outer layers of the epidermal walls, 69. 

 Cyanin, the blue pigment in the Cyanophyceae, 253. 



