compound 
confervoid 
O’vary, an ovary having more than 
one carpel; ~ Pistil, two or more 
carpels coalescent into one body ; 
~ Raceme’, = PaNicLE; ~ Spike, 
occurring frequently on grasses, 
when the inflorescence is made up 
of spikes; ~ Spore, =SPORIDESM ; 
~Spor’ophore, formed by cohesion 
of the ramifications of separate 
hyphal branches, Ger. Fruchtkér- 
per ;~Stem, one that is branched ; 
~Um’bel, an association of simple 
umbels, each ray being itself an 
umbel. 
compressed, compress'us (Lat. pressed 
together), flattened, complanate ; 
compressis’simus (Lat.) excessively 
flattened. 
con (Lat. with), modified by euphony 
frequently into com—both meaning 
‘‘with ” in Latin compounds. 
concatenate, concatena’tus (Lat.linked 
together), joined as links in a chain, 
as strings of spores, or frustules of 
Diatoms. 
Concaulese’ence (con, with; cavuiis, 
stem), the coalescence of axes. 
con’cave, conca’vus (Lat. hollowed out), 
hollow, as the inside of a saucer. 
con’centrate (con, with; centrum, 
centre), to bring to a common 
centre ; concen’tric, having a com- 
mon centre; ~ Bun’dles, where one 
element is wholly surrounded by 
the others, as the xylem by the 
phloém; ~ Vasc’ular-bun‘dle is the 
same. 
Concep’tacle, Concepta’culum (Lat. a 
receptacle), (1) originally used by 
Linnaeus to express FoLLiciE; (2) 
afterwards for the fruit of Ascle- 
piads and Apocyneae; (3) a hollow 
cage covering the sexual organs in 
some Algae; (4) the peridium of 
Fungi ; (5) the capsule of Mosses ; 
(6) by Medicus, following Jung, 
used for pericarp ; (7) now a general 
expression for a superficial cavity 
opening outwards, within which 
reproductive cells are produced. 
conch’iform, conchiform’is (concha, a 
shell ; forma, shape), shaped like 
the shell of a bivalve. 
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concin’nus (Lat,), neat, elegant. 
concolor’ous, con'color (Lat., of one 
colour), uniform in tint. 
concomitant (concom’itans,attending), 
used of vascular bundles which run 
side by side without being separ- 
ated by other bundles. 
Concresc’ence (concresco, to grow to- 
gether); (1) becoming concrete ; 
(2) a synonym of CEMENTATION ; 
concrete’, concre'tus, growing to- 
gether. 
Conduct’ing Bun’‘dles, strands of elon- 
gated cells in leaves and even the 
stems of Mosses, simulating a vas- 
cular bundle ; also used for Vascular 
Bundles ;~ Cells, long narrow cells, 
associated with sieve-tubes, but 
having imperforate walls ; ~ Sheath, 
elongated parenchymatous cells 
in the inner cortex of the stem, 
continued into the leaves as an in- 
vestiture of the vascular bundle ;~ 
Tissue, a loose tissue of the style 
through which the pollen-tubes can 
readily make their way ; Conduc- 
t/ive-Tissue is the same. 
condu’plicans (Lat., doubling), doub- 
ling up as, conduplicant/ia Fo’lia, 
the leaflets of a compound leaf which 
apply themselves to each other’s 
surfaces ; condu’plicate, conduplica- 
ti’vus, folded together lengthwise ; 
Conduplica’tion, in «stivation when 
the sides of an organ are applied 
to each other by their faces. 
Condyl'ium t (xévdvAos, a knuckle), the 
antheridium of Chara. 
Cone, Co’nus (Lat.), the fruit of the 
pine or fir tree with scales form- 
ing a STROBILE; ~ of Growth, the 
apical growing portion of the stem. 
Conench’yma (xwvos, a cone; eyxuua, 
an infusion), conical cells which 
constitute hairs (Lindley). 
confert’ed, confert’us (Lat. brought to- 
gether), closely packed or crowded. 
conferru minate, conferrumina’tius 
(Lat., cemented), adherent by ad- 
jacent faces, as the cotyledons of 
Horse Chestnut. 
confer’void, composed of threads, re- 
sembling the genus Conferva. 
