carnivorous 
Carragheen 
no’sus (Lat.) fleshy, pulpy; car- 
niv’orous (voro, I devour) flesh- 
eating; applied to those plants 
which digest insects; Caro (Lat. 
flesh), (1) the fleshy parts of fruits ; 
(2) the tissue of some Fungi. 
Caro’tin, the red colouring matter of 
chromoplasts ; name from Daucus 
Carota, Linn. 
Car’oubin, a carbohydrate first ob- 
served in the Carob; Caroub‘in- 
ase, a hydrolytic enzyme formed 
during germination in seeds of 
Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn.; French, 
Caroube. 
Carpade'lium + Carpade’lus t (xapzros, 
fruit, dé7ydos, not manifest) =CrE- 
MOCARP. 
Carp’el, Carpell’um (kapros, fruit), a 
simple pistil, or element of a com- 
pound pistil, answering to a single 
leaf ; a female sporophyll ; carpel- 
Yary, carpella’ris, carp'icus, relat- 
ing to a carpel; Carp‘id, Carpid’- 
ium, =diminutive of CARPEL ; Car- 
piium, (1) the oogonium modified 
by fertilization, which remains as 
an envelope around the embryo ; 
(2) t=caRPEL ; Carpoasci (doxos, a 
wine-skin), the more complex As- 
comycetous Fungi,all,exceptthe Ex- 
oascaceae (Kerner); Carpoclo’nium 
(kAwvlov, a young shoot), ‘‘a free 
case or receptacle of spores found 
in certain Algals” (Lindley) ; Car- 
poderm’is (d¢pya, skin), Bischoff’s 
emendationof PERICARP ; Carpo’des, 
Carpo'dium, pl. Carpo'dia, abortive 
carpels, as in Typha; Carp’ogam 
(yduos, marriage), the female organ 
in a procarp; producing a cysto- 
carp; Carpog’amy, the process 
itself; carpogen’ic, carpog’enous 
(yévos, race), producing fruit ; in 
Florideae, applied to special cells 
of the carpogonium ; Carp’ogone, 
Carpogon’ium (yor, offspring), (1) 
part of a procarp of carpogenous 
cells resulting in a sporocarp after 
fertilization ; (2) in Ascomycetes = 
ARCHICARP ; Carp’olite, Carp’olith 
(AlOos, stone), a fossilized fruit; or 
casts, found in the coal measures, 
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probably of Gymnospermous origin; 
Carpol’ogist, Carpol'ogus (dédyos, 
discourse), a specialist in fruits ; 
Carpol'ogy, classification of fruits ; 
Carpo’ma + ‘‘a collection of sper- 
mangia” (Lindley), 7.e. a compound 
sporocarp; Carpoma‘nia (yavia, 
frenzy), a disease of grittiness in 
fruit; Carpoma’ny, pistillody, or 
substitution of pistils for stamens ; 
Carpomorph’a t (opp, shape), apo- 
thecia of Lichens, resembling true 
fruits. 
Car’pon (xap7és, fruit), in Greek com- 
pounds=fruit ; Carp’ophore, Car- 
pophor’ium (popéw, I carry) ; (1) the 
stalk of a sporocarp ; (2) that part 
of the receptacle which is prolonged 
between the carpels as a central 
axis, as in Ceramium ; (3) used by 
Fayod as inclusive of stipe, pileus 
and lamellae, of fungi ; Carp’ophyll, 
Carpophyll'um (pdddov, leaf), syno- 
nym of CarPEL; Carp’ophytes 
(gurov, a plant), Phanerogams ; 
Carpopo’dium + (podium, an eleva- 
tion), fruit - stalk; Carp’osperm 
(crépua, seed), the impregnated 
oosphere of Algae ; Carposporan’gia 
(oropa, a seed, dyyetov, a vessel), dif- 
ferentiated sporangia in the cysto- 
carp of Rhodophyceae; Carp’o- 
spore (copa, a seed); (1) spore; 
(2) a spherical uninuclear spore 
formed in a sporocarp, arising 
from the swollen tips of branched 
filaments resulting from the fer- 
tilization of the carpogonium ; Car- 
pospo’reae, one of Cohn’s, also 
Sachs’s main divisions of Thallo- 
phytes, of plants which produce 
spore-fruit as the result of fertiliza- 
tion ; carpospor’ic, resembling a 
carpospore ; Carp’ostome, Carposto’- 
mium (ordua, the mouth), the 
opening in the cystocarp of some 
Algae ; Carpopto’sis(mrdors, falling), 
abnormal falling of the fruit; car- 
pot’ropic (rpory, a turn), used of 
movements for protection of the 
fruit, or its dissemination. 
Car’ragheen Moss, chiefly of Chondrus 
crispus, Ag. 
