GLOSSARY 



Adherent, clinging to, or united with 



Adnate, touching closely or broadly 



Agglutinated, glued together 



Aggregated, forming a mass or col- 

 lection, but not cohering 



Amorphous, structureless 



Anastomose, to run together in a net- 

 like manner 



Angular, having angles; sharp cor- 

 nered 



Apex, the end opposite the point of 

 attachment; tip 



Appressed, pressed closely against 



Approximate, near, about 



Aquatic, living in water 



Arachnoid, cobwebby 



Articulate, jointed with cells 



Asexual, without sex 



Base, the point of attachment 

 Brackish, somewhat salty 

 Bulbous, with a bulb 

 Bullate, swollen 

 Bullose, swollen 



Caespitose, in tufts or dense bunches 



Calcareous, composed of or contain- 

 ing lime 



Calyptra, a cap or lid 



Capitate, furnished with a globose 

 head 



Carneous, fleshy 



Cartilaginous, firm and tough like 

 cartilage 



Catenate, joined in a continuous se- 

 ries; in a chain 



Cell, a closed sac, surrounded by a 

 wall of cellulose, containing pro- 

 toplasm and a single nucleus 



Cell sap, the watery fluid of a cell 

 which separates from the proto- ■ 

 plasm as one or more vacuoles 



Cell wall, the membrane enclosing 

 the cell contents 



Cellulose, the cell wall substance of 

 plants 



Centrifugally, from the center 



Centripetally, toward the center 



Chlorophyll, the green coloring mat- 

 ter contained in plants) leaf- 

 green . . 



Chromatophore, a plastid, contammg 

 a coloring matter 



Cilium (pi. cilia), one of the vibra- 

 tile, protoplasmic processes 

 which serves to propel zoogonid- 

 ia through the water 



Circinate, rolled from the end 



Clathrate, with openings like lattice 

 work 



Clavate, club-shaped 



Coalesced, grown together, united 



Coalescence, the complete union of 

 similar things 



Collateral, side by side, secondary 



Colony, a group of independent cells 

 surrounded by a common invest- 

 ment; a mass of plants of more 

 or less definite shape, large 

 enough to be detected by the 

 naked eye 



Concentric, with a common center 



Confluent, growing or running to- 

 gether 



Conidium, gonidium; a gonidium 

 which is abstricted from the apex 

 of a stalk 



Constricted, narrowed in certain 

 places 



Contiguous, near or in contact 



Contorted, twisted 



Contractile, able to contract 



Convolute, rolled together 



Coriacious, leathery, tough 



Crenate, wavy 



Crisped, curled 



Crustaceous, crust-like 



Cuspidate, pointed, with a tooth 



Decumbent, lying down 

 Deliquescent, dissolving- 

 Dense, crowded together 

 Depressed-globose, globular, with the 



poles slightly flattened 

 Dichotomous, two-forked; furcate 

 Dichotomy, division into two branch- 

 es 

 Diffluent, dissolving 

 Disc, any flat circular area 

 Disc-shaped, flat and circular 

 Dissepiment, cross wall 

 Distal, pertaining to the apex 

 Divaricate, spreading 

 Diverging, separating ^ 



