cirriferous 



Cleistocarp 



aborted branch. The foregoing 

 are frequently spelled cirrife'rous, 

 cirr'iform, cirr'ose, Cirr'us, etc. 

 (from cirrus, a curl). 



Cistell'a, Cist'ula(Lat., a little chest), 

 used for the apothecia of Lichens, 

 which, globular at first, burst at 

 maturity. 



Cist'olitli = CYSTOLITH. 



Cist'ome, Cisto'ma (iclcrTiri, a box; <TT6fw., 

 a mouth), a membranous sac which 

 was supposed to pass beneath the 

 stomatic guard-cells ; but the cells 

 at the bottom of the stomatic 

 cavity are destitute of cuticle. 



Cistoph'orum (0o/><?o>, I carry), "the 

 stipe of certain Fungals " (Lindley). 



citrelTus (from Citrus, Linn.), some- 

 what yellow ; cit'reus, lemon-yel- 

 low ; citrineU'us, yellowish ; cit'ric 

 Acid is abundant in lemon juice. 



cladautoi'cous (/cXdSoy, a branch; auros, 

 self ; ol/cos, a house), having the male 

 inflorescence of a Moss on a proper 

 branch ; Cladench'yma J (fyxu/ta, an 

 infusion), branched parenchyma ; 

 cladocarp'ous (/ca/jTro?, fruit), having 

 a fruit terminating a lateral shoot 

 in Mosses ; Clad'ode, a branch of a 

 single internode simulating a leaf ; 

 Clado'dium, a flat expansion of the 

 stem ; Cladpdystro'pMa (5u$, bad ; 

 T/>o077, nourishment), the perishing 

 of branches; Clad'ophyll, Clado- 

 phyll'a (01/XXov, a leaf), a branch 

 assuming the form and function 

 of a leaf, a cladode; Cladopto'sis 

 (Trrums, a fall), abnormal casting 

 off of branches; Cladoscle'reids 

 (<r/cX?7/>6s, hard ; eTSos, resemblance), 

 stellate bodies containing calcium 

 oxalate in leaves and floral en- 

 velopes of Eurycde ferox, Salisb. ; 

 cladosiphon'ic (alfyuv, a tube) hav- 

 ing a tubular stele interrupted at 

 the insertion of branches (Jeffrey) ; 

 Cladostro'ma % ((rrp&ij.a, something 

 spread), a receptacle or growing- 

 point covered with carpels, each of 

 which has a free placenta. 



Clamp-cells, small semicircular hollow 

 protuberances, laterally attached 

 to the walls of two adjoining hypha- 



cells, and stretching over the sep- 

 tum between them ; ~ Connec'tions, 

 the same. 



Clap'per, the water-sac, or lobule of 

 Hepaticae. 



Clasileu'cite (/cXda-is, a fracture + Leu- 

 cite), that part of the protoplasm 

 differentiated in nuclear division to 

 form the spindle and centrosomes or 

 spheres when present (Dangeard). 



Clasp'ers, Grew's term for tendrils. " 



Class, Clas'sis (Lat. a fleet), a primary 

 group of Orders, Dicotyledons for 

 example ; Classifica'tion, arrange- 

 ment under respective groups ; 

 taxonomy, from Class to Variety, 

 or Form. 



clatn'rate, dathra'tua (Lat. latticed), 

 latticed, or pierced with apertures ; 

 - Cell = Sieve-tube; Clath'rus (Lat. 

 a lattice), a membrane pierced with 

 holes and forming a sort of grating. 



Claus'ilus (clausus, shut), Richard's 

 term for his macropodal embryo, 

 when its radicle is united by its 

 edges, and entirely encloses the 

 rest (Lindley). 



cla'vate, dava'tus (clavus, a club), 

 club-shaped, thickened towards 

 the apex; claVellate, davdlaftus, 

 diminutive of the foregoing ; Clav'- 

 icle, Clavic'ula (Lat. vine-tendril), 

 tendril, cirrhus ; clavic'ulate, davi- 

 cula'tus, furnished with tendrils or 

 hooks. 



clav'iform, daviform'is (dava, a club ; 

 forma, shape), club-shaped ; clavil- 

 lo'sus (Lat.), clubbed, or markedly 

 club-shaped ; ClaVule, Clav'ula, the 

 club-shaped sporophore in certain 

 Fungi, as Clavaria; Cla'vus, the 

 disease of Ergot in grasses, the 

 young grain being malformed and 

 club-shaped, from the attack of 

 Claviceps purpurea, Tul. 



Claw, the narrowed base of the petals 

 in such plants as Dianthus. 



Cleft, cut half-way down ; ~ -grafting, 

 insertion of a scion in a cleft made 

 in the stock. 



Cleis'tocarp (KXeto-rds, shut ; icapiros, 

 fruit), an ascocarp, which is com- 

 pletely closed, the spores escaping 



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