corymbous 
Cremocarp 
corymbo'sus ; corym’bous, arranged 
in corymbs ; corymb’ulose, -lous, in 
swall corymbs. 
Corynid’ia (xopvvy, a club), ‘‘ Processes 
sunk into the margin of the ger- 
minating leaf of Ferns, and con- 
taining spiral threads” (Lindley) 
{= Antheridia 7]. 
Coryphyll’y (xopyph, the crown of the 
head ; @vAdor, a leaf), a monstrosity 
in which the axis ends in a leaf, 
sometimes coloured. 
Cosmop’olite (xdcpos, the world; 
més, a city), a plant of well- 
nigh universal distribution ; cos- 
mopol'itan, distributed throughout 
the world. 
Cos’‘ta (Lat.), a rib, when single, a 
midrib or middle-nerve ; cos’tal- 
nerved, nerves springing from the 
midrib; cos’tate, costa/tus (Lat.), 
ribbed, having one or more primary 
longitudinal veins ; costa’to-veno’- 
sus, when the parallel side veins 
of a feather-veined leaf are much 
stouter than those which inter- 
vene ; cos'taeform (forma, shape), 
applied by J. Smith for primary 
veins in ferns when parallel to each 
other and very evident ; Cost’ulae, 
used by the same author for the 
primary veins of Fern-segments ; 
costel’late, having small ribs. 
Cot’'ton, the hairs of the Cotton-pod ; 
- cot‘tony, pubescence of long soft 
hair. 
Cotyle’don (xorvAnjdwy, a hollow), ap- 
plied first by Linnaeus to the seed- 
lobes, the first leaves of the embryo, 
one in monocotyledons, two or more 
indicotyledons, rarely a whorl borne 
by the radicle or caudicle ; cotyle- 
dona’ris, union or close approxima- 
tion of the seed-lobes ; Cotyle’donoid 
(eldos, resemblance), a germinating 
thread of a Moss, a protonema ; 
cotyle’donous, cotyledo’neus, pos- 
sessing seed-lobes. 
cotyliform, cotyliform’is (kéTuAn, a 
hollow, forma, shape), dish-shaped 
or wheel-shaped, with an erect 
or ascending border ; Cot’yloid Cell, 
a cell of doubtful function, pos- 
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sibly a sister-cell of the embryo 
sac. 
Coum’arin, the fragrant principle of 
the Tonquin bean, Dipterya 
odorata, Sw. 
Cou’ple-cell, Hartog’sterm for Zycorn. 
Cour’baril, a resin from Hymenaea 
Courbaril, Linn. 
Cover = OPERCULUM. 
Cov’er-cell, of Hepaticae, the apical 
cells of the neck of a young arche- 
gonium (Campbell); cover-like = 
OPERCULARIS ; covering = VEXIL- 
LARIS~ -Plate, in Ferns, see STEG- 
mata of Mettenius. 
cowled = cUCULLATE (Crozier), 
cra’ dling = INVOLVENTIA (folia). 
Cram’pon (Fr.), hooks or adventitious 
roots, which act as supports, as in 
ivy. 
craspedod’romous, -mus (xpdomedor, 
a border ; dpduos, a course), when 
the lateral veins of a leaf run from 
midrib to margin without dividing. 
crass’us (Lat.), thick. 
Crate’ra (kparyp, a cup), a cup-shaped 
receptacle; crate’riform, crateri- 
form's (forma, shape), goblet or 
cup-shaped, hemispheric or shallow 
in contour. 
Crab, a disease of the larch, due to the 
mycelium of Peziza Willkommii, 
Hartig. 
cratic’ular (craticula, a small grid- 
iron), a resting condition of 
Diatomaceae, in which a pair of 
new valves are formed within the 
original valves. 
cream-colour, white with a slight in- 
clination to yellow. 
creep’ing, running along or under the 
ground and rooting at intervals ; 
restricted by Syme to those cases 
where there is only one, or rarely 
two, flowering stems from each 
branch of the rhizome; ~ Stem, 
often means RHIZOME. 
cre’meus (Mod. Lat., 
CREAM-COLOUR. 
Crem’ocarp, Cremocarp'ium (kpepadw, I 
hang; «xapros, fruit), a dry and 
seed-like fruit, composed of two 
one-seeded carpels invested by 
creamy) = 
