Calyptra 



campylotropous 



Calyp'tra (saXuVrpa, a veil) or Calyp'- 

 ter, (1) the hood or cap of a Moss in 

 fruit when it crowns the capsule, 

 formed from the archegonial wall ; 

 (2) applied to any cap-like cover- 

 ing of a flower or fruit, as the 

 extinguisher - shaped calyx of 

 Eschscholtzia, or the lid which 

 falls off on expansion of some 

 Myrtaceae, as Eucalyptus ; (3) Go- 

 mont's term for a thick membrane 

 shutting off the apical cell of a 

 trichome in Oscillarieae ; (4) a term 

 proposed by Van Tieghem and 

 Douliot for that portion of the root- 

 cap in lateral roots which belongs 

 strictly to the root-system ; (5) 

 Tournefort's word for CARUNCLE ; 

 calyp'trate, calyptra'tus, bearing a 

 calyptra ; calyp'triform, calyptri- 

 form'is (forma, shape), shaped like 

 an extinguisher ; calyptrimorph'ous 

 ?, shape), a synonym of the 



last ; Calyp'trogen (7^05, offspring), 

 (I) the layer of cells from which the 

 root-cap takes its origin, (2) the 

 layer of tissue covering the young 

 embryo, as in Ferns. 



Ca'lyx (Kd\u, a cup), (1) the outer- 

 most of the floral envelopes ; ~ ad- 

 he'rens, when not separable from 

 the ovary ; <>> calycula'tus, when 

 surrounded by a ring of bracts ; 

 <" commu'nis, the involucre of 

 Composites ; ~ infe'rior, ~ li'ber, 

 when free from the ovary ; -^supe'- 

 rior, when adherent to the ovary ; 

 <~ Tube, a tubular form of the calyx, 

 due to the union of the sepals ; (2) 

 the receptacle of certain Fungi ; 

 (3) the "perianth" of Hepaticae, 

 that is, the COLESULA (Hooker and 

 Taylor). 



Cam'ara (Kapdpa, a vault), occasion- 

 ally used for the cells of a fruit ; 

 Camer'ula, a diminutive of the fore- 

 going; cama'rius, resembling a 

 simple carpel, as the berry-like 

 fruit of Actaea. 



camb'ial (cambio, I change), relating 

 to CAMBIUM; camb'iform (forma, 

 shape), resembling cambium ; 

 Cambium, a layer of nascent 



tissue between the wood and bast, 

 adding elements to both ; for- 

 merly considered as a mere viscous 

 mass ; ^ Fi'bres, the immediate de- 

 rivatives of the cambium, partly 

 formed woody fibres (Sanip) j <* 

 Layer, the formative tissue during 

 active growth ; <- Ring, the com- 

 plete system of the cambium, separ- 

 ating the wood from the bast in 

 the shoot ; fascic'ular <*- , that 

 which belongs to the vascular 

 bundles; interfascic'ular ~, that 

 which is formed between the vas- 

 cular bundles, and the primary 

 medullary rays. 



cameli'mis (Lat.), camel - coloured, 

 tawny. 



campana'ceus (campana, a bell) ; cam- 

 pan'iform, campaniform'is ; cam- 

 pan'ulate, campanula' tus, bell- 

 shaped, applied to a corolla ; 

 Crozier adds campanil'iform. 



campes'ter (Lat.) camped 'tris, growing 

 in fields, the second form is that 

 usually found in botanic works ; 

 adj. campes'tral. 



Camph'or a solid essential oil from 

 Cinnamomum Camphora, T. Nees 

 et Eberm. , and other trees ; cam- 

 phora'ceous ( + aceous) ; camphoric, 

 pertaining to, or of the nature of 

 camphor. 



camptod'romus (Kcfytrw, I bend ; 5p6/j.os, 

 course), venation in which the 

 secondary veins curve towards the 

 margins, but do not form loops ; 

 camptot'ropal (T/JOTTT/, a turn), an 

 orthotropal ovule, but curved like 

 a horse-shoe. 



campulit'ropal (/ta^TrtfXos, curved ; 

 rpoirrj, a turn) ; campulit'ropous, see 

 CAMPYLITROPAL, etc. ; campy lod'- 

 romous, -mus (dpopos, a course), 

 venation which has its primary 

 veins curved in a more or less 

 bowed form towards the leaf apex ; 

 campylosper'mous -mus (o-Tr^a, 

 seed), having the albumen curved 

 at the margin so as to form a longi- 

 tudinal furrow ; campylot'ropal, 

 campylot'ropous (T/JOTTT?, a turn), 

 applied to an ovule, one side of 



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