Karyosomata 
Kryptoblast 
in a nucleus; pl. Karyoso’mata ; 
Karyosymph’ysis (ctjugvots, growing 
together), nuclear fusion (Hartog). 
katabolic (xaraBaddw, I cast down), 
descending metabolism, the break- 
ing up of compounds into simpler 
bodies; Katab’olism, destructive 
metabolism. 
katalyt’ic = CATALYTIC. 
Katelectrot’onus (xara, down ; 
drextpov, amber; révos, strain), 
heightened excitation in plants 
due to an electric current (Hor- 
mann). 
Kathod’ic («d@od0s, a descent), that 
half of a leaf which is turned away 
from the direction in which the 
genetic spiral turns; the opposite 
of ANODIC. 
Keel, or Cari’NA, (1) a ridge like the 
keel of a boat; (2) the two anterior 
and united petals of a papilionace- 
ous corolla; keeled, carinate. 
Kenench’yma (xevds, empty, éyxuya, 
an infusion), permanent tissue 
which has lost its living contents, 
as cork-tissue!; in Ger. ‘‘ Leer- 
zellengewebe.” 
Keramid‘ium = 
Cystocarp. 
kermesi’nus (Mod. Lat.), carmine, a 
colour from Kermes. 
Ker’nel, (1) the nucleus of an ovule,or 
of a seed, that is, the whole body 
within the coats; (2) the softer 
part of the pyrenocarp within the 
outer wall in certain Fungi. 
Ke’tones (a variation of ‘‘ Acetone”’), a 
class of etherial oils; camphor is 
probably one of this class. 
Ket'tle-traps, applied to such flowers 
“<Qas those of Aristolochia, which im- 
prison insects until fertilization is 
effected. 
Key, or Key-fruit, the Samara of 
sycamore or ash. 
Kid’ney- form, Kid’ney - shaped, ob- 
lately cordate; crescent-shaped, 
with the ends rounded. 
Kind, genus or species, a sort. 
kinet/ic («ivnovs, motion) En’ergy, 
the energy of actual motion, as 
opposed to potential energy. 
CERAMIDIUM, or 
kin'ic (Kina-Kina, a name for Cin- 
chona), pertaining to cinchona; ~ 
Ac‘id, an organic acid in Cinchona 
barks. 
King’dom, one of the highest groups 
of organic nature; the Vegetable 
~ includes all plants, 
Klado’dium =CLapopg. 
kleistogam’ic, kleistog’amous = CLEIS- 
TOGAMIC. 
Klinomorph’y («Alvw, I bend, popdh, a 
shape), Wiesner’s term for the 
condition of an organ determined 
by the simultaneous oblique posi- 
tion of the principal and median 
planes, so that the right and left 
halves may be distinguished as 
upper and lower, resulting in a 
different shape of the two halves; 
kleinorhom’bic (fdu80s, a rhomb), a 
mineralogic term used by De Bary 
for oblique rhombic crystals in 
plants. 
Kl’nostat = CLinostatT. 
Knaur=GNAvR. 
Knee, (1) an abrupt bend in a stem or 
tree-trunk; (2) an outgrowth of 
some tree roots ; ~ joint’ed, genicu- 
late ; ~ -pan-shaped, concavo-con- 
vex, patelliform ; kneed, geniculate. 
Knight-Darwin Law, generally under- 
stood as ‘‘that no organic being 
fertilises itself for an eternity of 
generations”; preferably ‘‘ Nature 
abhors perpetual self-fertilisation,” 
cf. F. Darwin in ‘‘ Nature,” lviii., 
630-632. 
knob-like = GONGYLODES; knobbed= 
TORULOSE ; knob’by = NODOSE. 
Knot, (1) a node in the stem of 
grasses ; (2) a swelling in stems at 
the attachment of the leaf; (3) 
various diseases caused by Fungi, 
as Black ~, effected by Plowrightia 
morbosa, Sacc.(Tubeuf) ; Knot-phase, 
in nuclear-division, is also known, 
as skein-stage; knot’ted, knot’ty, 
nodose. 
Knur, Knurl, a knob or hard substance 
=GNAUR. 
Kryp’toblast (xpumros, hidden, BAacros, 
a bud), a preventitious bud 
(Hartig). 
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