carposporic 



(SUPPLEMENT) 



Chasmo-dichogamy 



possessing chaffy pappus ; carpo- 

 sporic, adj. from CARPOSPORE. 



Carp'ostrotes, -ae (yrpwrbs, spread), 

 plants whose distribution is 

 effected by fruits (Clements). 



Carpot'ropism (TPOTTTJ, a turning), the 

 movements of fruits before or 

 after pollination ; adj. carpo- 

 trop'ic. 



canmcula'ris = CARUNCULATE. 



Caryomi'tome ('+ MITOM), the chro- 

 matin portion of the nucleus. 



caryopsid'eus, like a CARIOPSIS. 



casearill'us (Lat.), the colour of the 

 inner bark of Gascarilla (Heyne). 



Casts, fossils showing the impressions 

 of the structures whence their form 

 is derived; medull'ary~', impres- 

 sions of the internal cavities and 

 Catamites, etc. 



Catab'olites, the products of CATA- 

 BOLISM ; cf. HETEROBOLITES ; SCHI- 



ZOBOLITES. 



cat'acladous, -dus (ic\d8os, a branch), 

 deflexed ; applied to certain species 

 of Sphagnum. 



catagenet ; ic,relating to CATAGENESIS. 



Cat'alase (deriv. ?), an enzyme in 

 fresh tobacco leaves (Loew). 



Cath'ion (KCIT&, down, + ION), an 

 ion charged with electricity which 

 migrates toward the cathode or 

 negative pole (J. F. Smith) ; in 

 physics the word is usually spelled 

 "Cation." 



Cat'kin, (2) improperly used by J. E. 

 Smith for the spikelet of Carex. 



Cauliflo'ry, the production of flowers 

 from the old wood (C. Schimper) ; 

 caulocarp'ic, the same as CAULO- 

 CARPOUS; cau'loid (elSos, resem- 

 blance), emulating a stem, as in 

 Pithophora (Wittrock). 



Cecidiol'ogy (\67oj, discourse), the 

 science of galls and their origin. 



Cell-cap, an appearance in Oedogonium, 

 due to intercalary surface growth ; 

 ~ ker'nel = NUCLEUS. 



Cellobi'ose, formerly Cell'ose, a biose 

 or sugar stated to have nearly the 

 same composition as Cellulose. 

 Cell'ulose, an enzyme occurring in 

 Polyporus and Merulius which 



attacks Cellulose; CelTules, used 

 by J. E. Smith for CISTULAE. 



cenan'thous (ai/0os, a flower), adj. of 

 CENANTHY. 



cenogenet'ic, cf. CAENOGENET'IC. 



cen'tonate (cento, patchwork), used by 

 F. N. Williams for the blotched 

 leaves of Hieracium. 



cen'tral, applied by Praeger to those 

 plants which are distributed cen- 

 trally, and die out towards the 

 extremities of a country or 

 island. 



Cen'triole, Boveri's term for CENTRO- 

 SOMB. 



Cen'trospores, -ae (K+vrpov, a spur 

 + SPORE), plants having spurred 

 fruits (Clements). 



Cen'ser-ac'tion, used for such capsules 

 as partially open by valves, the 

 seeds being gradually shaken out 

 by the wind, as Papaver and Cer- 

 astium (Kerner) ; Cen'ser - holes, 

 apertures in the capsule, as in 

 Campanula. 



chala'zal, pertaining to the CHALAZA. 



Cnalico'dium (xaXi/cwSi??, gravelly), 

 " a gravel slide formation " ; chali- 

 codoph'ilus ($t\ew, I love), " dwell- 

 ing in gravel slides " ; Chalicodo- 

 phy'ta (<j>vrbv, a plant), "gravel 

 slide plants " (Clements). 



ehalicoph'ilus (x^'f, gravel, ^tXe'o;, 

 I love), gravel plant formations ; 

 Chalicophy'ta (<j>vrov, a plant), 

 gravel plantsjChalicophy'tia, gravel 

 plant formations (Clements), 



chasmanthe'ric, chasmanth'erous 

 (&vdos, a flower), in cleistogamic 

 flowers, when the anthers open, 

 and liberate their pollen ; Chas- 

 mantlie'ry (xdo-pa, a chasm, Avd-qpos, 

 flowery), partial cleistogamy, 

 when the stamens are exserted 

 from the otherwise closed flowers 

 (Knuth) ; Chas'mo-cleistog'amy 

 ( + CLEISTOGAMY), the condition 

 of possessing both cleistogamic and 

 chasmogamic flowers (Delpino) ; 

 adj. chasmocleistog'amous ; Chas'- 

 mo-dichog'amy ( + DICHOGAMY), 

 when cleistogamic flowers are 

 accompanied by others which are 



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