cremoricolor 
Crozier 
an epigynous calyx, separating 
when ripe into mericarps. 
cremoric’olor (cremeus, color, colour) 
= CREAM-COLOUR. 
Cre’na (Mod. Lat., a notch), a rounded 
tooth or notch; Cre’naturs Crena- 
tu’'ra, w rounded notch on the 
margin of a leaf ; cre’nate, crena’tus, 
scalloped, toothed with crenatures ; 
Cren’el = Crena; Cren’elling = 
CreEnA ; cren’elled, crenwla'ris, mar- 
gined with crenatures ; cren’ellate, 
crenelia'tus, cren’ulate, crenula’‘tus, 
crenate, but the toothings them- 
selves small; Cren’ule, a diminutive 
Crena. 
cres’cent-shaped, approaching the 
figure of a crescent, as the leaves 
of certain species of Passiflora. 
Crest, (1) an elevation or ridge upon 
the summit of an organ; (2) an 
outgrowth of the funiculus in seeds, 
a sort of axil; crest’ed, possessing 
any elevated line or ridge on the 
surface such as may be compared 
with the crest of a helmet 
creta’ceous, -ceus (creta, chalk), (1) 
chalky, as the chalk-glands found 
in Saxifrages; (2) chalk-white, 
dead-white. 
crev iced = RIMOSE. 
cri’brate (cribrum, a sieve), usually 
written CRIBROSE ; cri’briform, crz- 
briform’is ( forma, shape), sieve-like, 
ierced with many holes ; ~ Cells = 
IEVE-CELLS; ~ Tis’sue, containing 
sieve-cells and tubes; cri’brose, 
cribro'sus, pierced like a sieve; ~ 
Celis = SIEVE-TUBES. 
crinif’erous (crinis, hair ; fero, I bear), 
used by J. Smith for hirsute; 
cri‘nite, crini’tus, bearded with long 
and weak hairs. 
crin’oid (xplvov, a lily; eléos, resem- 
blance) lily-like (Crozier). 
Crin’ula (crinis, hair) = ELATER; 
Cri‘nus, a stiff hair on any part. 
crisp, crisp’us (Lat.), curled ; crispa’- 
bilis, capable of curling up; crisp’- 
ate, crisped, crispa‘tus, crispate’vus, 
ourled ; crispes’cens, able to curl 
mpi Crisp’ature, Crispatw'ra, (1) 
when the edge is excessively and 
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irregularly divided and twisted ; 
(2) or the leaf much puckered and 
crumpled, but not so much as 
bullate ; crispiflor’al (los, floris, a 
flower), having curled flowers ; 
crispifo’lious (folium, a leaf), with 
curled leaves. 
Cris’ta (Lat.), a crest or terminal tuft ; 
crist‘aeform (forma, shape), used by 
J. Smith for crested appendices in 
Ferns ; as in Actinostachys, Wall; 
cris'tate, crista'tus, crested. 
Critench’yma, (xpiros, chosen ; éyxupya, 
an infusion), the tissue of bundle- 
sheaths, open or closed envelopes 
which accompany fibro-vascular 
bundles; crit/ical, used of plants 
which need great discrimination in 
classifying. 
croca'tus, cro’ceous, croc’eus (Lat.), 
saffron-yellow ; a deep yellow tint 
from the stigmas of Crocus sativus, 
Linn. ; Cro’cin, the colouring matter 
of the foregoing. 
crook’ed, curved. 
Cross, term implying a hybrid of any 
description ; ~ armed, brachiate 
(Crozier) ;~ Breeds, the progeny of 
interbred varieties ; ~ Fertiliza’tion, 
fecundation by pollen from another 
flower of another individual; ~ 
Pollina’tion, dusting the stigma of 
one flower with pollen from an- 
other ; ~ Septa’tion, division by 
transverse septa ; ~ Type, in nuclear 
division, the formation of tetrads. 
Crossed-pits, cells in sclerenchyma, 
with the slits on opposite walls at 
right angles to each other. 
crowded, closely pressed together or 
thickly set. 
Crown, see Corona; also (1) in 
Characeae, the apex of the nucule ; 
(2) in Diatomaceae, a series of 
teeth connecting the frustules 
into filaments, as in Stephano- 
pyxis; ~ of the Root, the point 
where root and stem meet; 
crowned, corona/tus, furnished 
with a coronet; crown’ing, coro’- 
nans, borne on the summit of an 
organ. 
Cro’zier, ‘anything with a coiled 
