confluent 



Conocarpium 



con'fluent, con'Jluens (Lat., flowing 

 into), blended into one, passing by 

 degrees one into the other ; ^ Fruit, 

 a compound fruit, such as the mul- 

 berry or pineapple. 



conformed', conform' is (Lat., shaped) ; 

 (1) similar inform; (2) closely fit- 

 ting, as a seed-coat to the nucellus. 



Con'gener (Lat. of the same race), 

 another plant of the same genus ; 

 congeneric, belonging to the same 

 genus. 



congenital (congenitus, born together), 

 grown to anything ; strictly, of the 

 same origin. 



Conge'ries (Lat., a heap), a collection 

 of parts or organs. 



congested, congest' us (Lat., brought 

 together), crowded. 



conglo'bate, congloba'tus (Lat., made 

 like a ball), collected into a ball. 



conglomerate, conglomtra'tus (Lat., 

 rolled together), clustered. 



Conglu'tin (conglutinatus, cemented 

 together), a constituent of plant- 

 casein, usually with legumin ; con- 

 glu'tinate, conglutina'tus, as though 

 glued together. 



con'gregate (congrego, to assemble), 

 collected into close proximity. 



Co'nia (ictaveiov, hemlock), the active 

 principle of Conium maculatum, 

 Linn., a poisonous alkaloid. 



conical, con'icus (Lat., cone-shaped), 

 having the figure of a cone, as the 

 carrot. 



conidiif erous (K&VIS, dust ; <f>opt<i), I 

 carry), bearing CONIDIA ; Conidl- 

 ophore = GONIDIOPHORE ; Conidlo- 

 spore ((nropa, a seed) = CONIDIUM ; 

 Conlds, simplification proposed by 

 Bennett and Murray for CONIDIA ; 

 Conidlum (pi. Conidia) = GONIDIA. 



Conif erin (conus, a cone ; fero, I bear), 

 a glucoside derived from coniferous 

 wood ; coniferous, producing or 

 bearing cones, as many Gymno- 

 sperms ; co'niform (forma, shape) = 

 CONICAL. 



Co'niin, Co'nein, the same as CONIA. 



Conlocyst', Coniocyst'a (xoVts, dust; 

 Ki/emj, a bag), a closed sporangium 

 resembling a tubercule,containing a 



mass of spores ; Coniothe'ca 

 case), the loculus of an anther. 



Conjoint Bun' die, a vascular bundle 

 when it is composed of wood and 

 bast elements 



conjugate, conjuga'tus (Lat., united), 

 coupled ; as a pinnate leaf, of two 

 leaflets : ~ Spi'rals, whorled leaves so 

 arranged as to give two or more gen- 

 etic spirals running parallel with 

 each other ; Conjugating Tubes, 

 long processes emitted by the fer- 

 tilized trichophore in certain Algae, 

 which unite with the auxiliary 

 cells (Osterhout) ; Conjugation, the 

 fusion of sexual elements, the union 

 of two gametes to form a zygote, 

 used especially when the two 

 gametes are similar, as in some 

 Algae and Fungi : ~ -Cell = GAMETE ; 

 conjuga'to-palm'ate, when a leaf 

 divides into two arms, each of 

 which is palmate. 



conjunctive (conjunctivus, joined), 

 serving to unite ; <- Threads, = 

 SPINDLE Fibres; ~ Tis'sue, the 

 fundamental tissue or ground tissue 

 interior to the stele ; Conjunctorlum 

 the operculum of a Moss. 



connas'cent, (con, with ; nascor, to be 

 born), produced at the same time 

 (Crozier). 



con'nate, conna'tus (Lat., born at the 

 same time), united, congenitally or 

 subsequently ; con'nate-perfo'liate, 

 united at the base in pairs around 

 the supporting axis. 



Connecting Cell, (connectus, fastened 

 together) = HETEROCYST ; ~ Zone, the 

 " hoop " or girdle connecting the 

 valves of a Diatom frustule ; Con- 

 nective, Connect? vum, the portion 

 of a stamen distinct from the fila- 

 ment which connects the two lobes 

 of an anther ; connectiva'lis, having 

 to do with the connective. 



conni'vent, conni'vens(L&t., winking), 

 coming into contact or converging. 



Connu'biuni, (Lat., wedlock), the 

 stage of protoplasmic coalescence 

 in the conjugation of filamentous 

 Algae. 



Conocarpium (/ccfivoj, a cone; /caproi 



