Cymd 



Cytodieresis 



flattened one; hel'icoid (a) a 

 Bostryx, and (6) a Drepanium, the 

 lateral branches of the successive 

 ramifications always occurring on 

 the same side ; scorp'ioid ~ (a) 

 Cincinnus, and (&) Rhipidium, the 

 lateral branches always occurring 

 alternately on opposite sides ; Cy- 

 melet, pr. aim -let, a little cyme ; 

 cymiferous (fero, I bear), produc- 

 ing cymes ; cy'mo-bot'ryose[or oot'- 

 ryoid], when cymes are arranged in a 

 botryoid manner ; cy'moid (eI5os, 

 resemblance), having the form of a 

 cyme; cy'mose, cymo'sus, cy'mous, 

 bearing cymes or relating to cymes ; 

 ~ Umb'el, one with centrifugal in- 

 florescence ; Cy'mule, a diminutive 

 cyme or portion of one. 



Cyn'apine, an alkaloid occurring in 

 Aethusa Cynapium, Linn. 



Cynarrliodlon, -dium (KVWV, a dog ; 

 p6Sov, a rose), a fruit like that of 

 the dog-rose, fleshy, hollow, and 

 enclosing achenes. 



Cy'on, Grew's spelling of Cion= SCION. 



cypera'ceous (Cfyperw^ + aceous), re- 

 lating to sedges, from the typical 

 genus Cyperus. 



Cyphel'la (Kv<f>6s, bent), " collections of 

 gonidia in the form of cups " 

 (Lindley) ; Cyphel'lae, orbicular 

 fringed spots like dimples, under 

 the thallus of Lichens ; cypnel'late, 

 marked with Cyphellae. 



Cyp'sela (Kv^f'Xv), a box), an achene 

 invested by an adnate calyx, as 

 the fruit of Compositae. 



Cyr'rIms = CiRRHUS, a tendril. 



Cyst, Cyst' is (KV<FTU, a cavity), (1) a 

 sac or cavity, usually applied to a 

 structure whose nature is doubtful; 

 (2) all cells of non-sexual origin in 

 green Algae which reproduce the 

 plant by germination after a rest- 

 ing period as resting spores, hyp- 

 nospores, chronospores, aplano- 

 spores, akinetes (F. Gay) ; Cyst'a J 

 Necker's term for a berry with dry, 

 membranous envelope, as in Passi- 

 flora; Cyst'id, a proposed emenda- 

 tion for Cystid'ium; (1) large, one- 

 celled, sometimes inflated bodies, 



projecting beyond the basidia and 

 paraphyses of the hymenium of 

 Agarics, of unknown function ; (2) 

 = UTRICLE ; Cyst'oblast (j3\ao-T6s, a 

 shoot), cited by Crozier for CYTO- 

 BLAST ; Cyst'ocarp Cystocarp'ium 

 (Kapir&s, fruit), a sporophore in 

 Algae, especially Florideae, a cyst 

 containing sexually produced 

 spores ; Cyst'olith (\idos, stone), 

 mineral concretions, usually of 

 calcium carbonate on a cellulose 

 stalk, occurring chiefly in special 

 cells of the Urticaceae, as in Ficus 

 elastica, Roxb. ; Cyst'ophore ((poptw, 

 I carry), the same as ASCOPHORE ; 

 Cyst'osore Cystoso'rus (o-wpos, a 

 heap), a group of resting-spores 

 within a cell as in Woronina ; 

 Cyst'ospore ( <nropa, a seed ) = 

 CARPOSPORE (Strasburger) ; Cyst'- 



Ula = ClSTULA, ClSTELLA. 



Cy'tase (/euros, a hollow vessel), an 

 enzyme found in germinating seeds 

 which hydrolyses cellulose ; Cytas'- 

 ter (dorrjp, a star), a series of 

 achromatic rays from each pole of 

 the nucleus into the cytoplasm in 

 karyokinesis (Crozier) ; Cyten- 

 ch'yma (?7 X u/xa, an infusion), 

 vacuolar structure in cells, fluid 

 which separates from protoplasm 

 as vacuoles (Crozier) ; Cy'tioderm 

 (5^p/ta, skin), the cell- wall in Diato- 

 maceae (Crozier). 



Cyt'isine, an alkaloid occurring in the 

 genus Cytisus. 



Cy'toblast; (/a/roy, a hollow vessel; 

 Xaoros, a shoot), (1) Schleiden's 

 name for the cell-nucleus ; (2) a 

 colony of bioblasts which have lost 

 their independent existence ; cf. 

 BIOBLAST ; Cytpblaste'ma, the 

 formative material in which cells 

 are produced, and by which they 

 are held in union ; protoplasm ; 

 Cy'todes, (1) cells; (2) nuclear 

 elements in which the caryosomes 

 are not grouped into nuclei (Vuil- 

 lemin) ; Cytodier'esis (diaipeffis, 

 division), cell-division with nuclear 

 division, and formation of a nuc- 

 lear-spindle and asters (Crozier) ; 



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