I9O MOSSES WITH A HAND-LENS 



Cirrate or cirrhatc, applied to leaves which curl up in drying. 

 Cirrate leaves are more regularly curled than crispate leaves. 

 Cirrhose, having a wavy hair point. 



Cladocarpous, having the sporophyte terminating a short 

 special fertile branch ; somewhat like half-way between acrocarp- 

 ous and pleurocarpous ; e. g., Fontinalis. 



Cleistocarpous, capsule opening irregularly, not by a lid or 

 valves. 



Cochleariform, rounded and concave like a spoon or ladle. 

 Collum, the neck or tapering base of the capsule. (See 

 Fig. 21.) 



Columella, the central axis of the capsule ; around 

 it and between it and the outer wall of the capsule are 

 borne the spores. Sometimes the lid adheres to it 

 and is raised upon it, as in Fig. 12. 



Coma, Comal tuft, a tuft of leaves at the tip of 

 a stem or branch. 



Complanate (of leaves or branches), flattened out 

 more or less in one plane. 



Complicate, folded together. 



Complicate-bilobed, two lobed with one lobe folded under and 

 against the other as in Radula. No mosses have leaves with this 

 structure. 



Confervoid, formed of fine threads. 



Constricted, used of capsules that become 

 narrowed under the mouth when dry. 

 (Fig. 8.) 



Contracted. See constricted. 

 Cordate, heart-shaped. 

 Costa, the nerve or midrib of a moss leaf. 

 Costate, having a costa. 

 Crispate or crisped, frizzled, curled and 

 twisted in various ways. (Fig. 13.) 



Cucullate, hood-shaped, the apex curv- 

 ed in like a slipper. (Apex of leaf in 

 Fig. 14.) 



Cucullate calyptra, a calyptra that is hood-shaped and split 

 on one side only. (Fig. 9.) 



Cultriform, curved like a short, wide scimitar ; e. g., the 

 leaves of Homalia trichomanoides Jamesii. 



Cygneous(seta^), curved suddenly downward, like a swan's neck. 



