cremoricolor 



Crozier 



an epigynous calyx, separating 

 when ripe into mericarps. 

 cremoric'olor (cremeus, color, colour) 



= CREAM-COLOUR. 



Cre'na (Mod. Lat., a notch), a rounded 

 tooth or notch ; Cre'nature Crena- 

 tu'ra, a rounded notch on the 

 margin of a leaf ; cre'nate, crena'tus, 

 scalloped, toothed with crenatures ; 

 Cren'el = CRENA ; Cren'elling = 

 CRENA ; cren'elled, crenula'ris, mar- 

 gined with crenatures ; cren'ellate, 

 crendla'tus, cren'ulate, crenula'tus, 

 crenate, but the toothings them- 

 selves small; Cren'ule, a diminutive 

 Crena. 



cres'cent - shaped, approaching the 

 figure of a crescent, as the leaves 

 of certain species of Passiftora. 



Crest, (1) an elevation or ridge upon 

 the summit of an organ; (2) an 

 outgrowth of the funiculus in seeds, 

 a sort of axil ; crest'ed, possessing 

 any elevated line or ridge on the 

 surface such as may be compared 

 with the crest of a helmet 



creta'ceous, -ceus (creta, chalk), (1) 

 chalky, as the chalk-glands found 

 in Saxifrages; (2) chalk-white, 

 dead-white. 



creviced = RIMOSE. 



cri'brate (cribrum, a sieve), usually 

 written CRIBROSE ; cri'briform, cri- 

 briform' is (forma, shape), sieve-like, 

 pierced with many holes ; <~ Cells = 

 SIEVE-CELLS ; ~ Tis'sue, containing 

 sieve-cells and tubes; cri'brose, 

 cribro'sus, pierced like a sieve ; ~ 

 Cells = SIEVE-TUBES. 



crinif erous (crinis, hair ; fero, I bear), 

 used by J. Smith for hirsute ; 

 cri'nite, crini'tus, bearded with long 

 and weak hairs. 



crin'oid (Kplvov, a lily ; eZSos, resem- 

 blance) lily-like (Crozier). 



Crin'ula (crinis, hair) = ELATER; 

 Cri'nus, a stiff hair on any part. 



crisp, crisp' us (Lat.), curled ; crispa'- 

 bilis, capable of curling up ; crisp' - 

 ate, crisped, crispa'tus, crispati'vus, 

 ourled ; crispes'cens, able to curl 

 up ; Crisp'ature, Crispatu'ra, (1) 

 when the edge is excessively and 



irregularly divided and twisted ; 

 (2) or the leaf much puckered and 

 crumpled, but not so much as 

 bullate ; crispiflor'al (Jlos, floris, a 

 flower), having curled flowers ; 

 crispifo'lious (folium, a leaf), with 

 curled leaves. 



Cris'ta (Lat. ), a crest or terminal tuft ; 

 crist'aeform (forma, shape), used by 

 J. Smith for crested appendices in 

 Ferns ; as in Actinostachys, Wall.; 

 cris'tate, crista'tus, crested. 

 Critench'yma (K/MTOS, chosen ; yxi>Ata, 

 an infusion), the tissue of bundle- 

 sheaths, open or closed envelopes 

 which accompany fibro-vascular 

 bundles ; critical, used of plants 

 which need great discrimination in 

 classifying. 



croca'tus, cro'ceous, croc'eus (Lat.), 

 saffron-yellow ; a deep yellow tint 

 from the stigmas of Crocus sativus, 

 Linn. ; Cro'cin, the colouring matter 

 of the foregoing, 

 crook'ed, curved. 



Cross, term implying a hybrid of any 

 description ; ~ armed, brachiate 

 (Crozier) ; ~ Breeds, the progeny of 

 interbred varieties ; ~ Fertiliza'tion, 

 fecundation by pollen from another 

 flower of another individual ; ~ 

 Follina'tion, dusting the stigma of 

 one flower with pollen from an- 

 other ; "- Septa'tion, division by 

 transverse septa ; ~ Type, in nuclear 

 division, the formation of tetrads. 

 Crossed-pits, cells in sclerenchyma, 

 with the slits on opposite walls al- 

 right angles to each other, 

 crowd'ed, closely pressed together or 



thickly set. 



Crown, see CORONA ; also (1) in 

 Characeae, the apex of the nucule ; 

 (2) in Diatomaceae, a series of 

 teeth connecting the frustules 

 into filaments, as in Stephano- 

 pyxis ; *- of the Root, the point 

 where root and stem meet ; 

 crowned, corona'tus, furnished 

 with a coronet ; crown'ing, coro'- 

 nans, borne on the summit of an 

 organ. 

 Cro'zier, "anything with a coiled 



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