382 GLOSSARY OF TERMS 



Capitate, furnished with a head ; a semi-spherical colony. 



Capsule, the gelatinous envelope surrounding a bacterium. Fig. 2. 



Carneus, flesh colored, pale red. 



Cartilaginous, firm and tough, like cartilage. 



Ceraceous, waxy, waxlike in appearance. 



Chartaceous, of the texture of paper. 



Chromatic, capable of being colored by staining agents. 



Cineraceous, a little paler than cinerous. 



Cinerous, ash gray. 



Clavate, club-shaped. 



Clouded, having a pale ground, with ill-defined patches of a darker tint grad- 

 ually shading into it. Fig. 12, f. 



Cochleate, shaped like a shell, spirally turbinate. Fig. 10, A. 



Coerulescent, bluish, lighter than coeruleus. 



Coeruleus, light blue, sky blue. 



Concatenate, linked together in chains. 



Concentric, having a common centre, the ringed structure of many colonies. 



Conglobate, clustered together into a ball. 



Conglomerate, clustered together. Fig. 12, A. 



Conidium, a propagative cell, naked or with a membrane, produced asexually, 

 separating from the parent and capable of developing into a bion. 



Continuous, not divided into septa. 



Contoured, an irregular but smoothly undulating surface. 



Convex, surface the segment of a circle, but flatly convex. 



Coriaceous, leathery in texture. 



Corrugated, in long folds or wrinkles. 



Crateriform, disk-shaped. Fig. 9, i. 



Crenate, edged with rounded teeth. 



Cretaceous, opaque and white, chalky. 



Cuneate, wedge-shaped. 



Cyaneus, pure blue. 



Dentate, with broad acute teeth. 

 Dichotomous, forked, bifurcated. 

 Discrete, separate, not confluent. 



Echinate, beset with short prickles. 



Ectogenic, capable of living outside the animal body, said of disease produc- 

 ing organisms. 

 Efiused, spread out over the medium as a thin, veily layer. 

 Elliptical, shape of an ellipse. 



Endemic, occurring in the one limited locality or region. 

 Endogenous, produced within another body. 

 Endophytal, growing within plants. 



