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GLOSSARY. 



dilate. Marginally fringed with hairs. 



Cladocarpotu. Having the fruit termi- 

 nal on short lateral branches. 



Clamydospores. Spores formed non- 

 sexually in the mycelium of Mucorini. 



Cochleariform. Spoon-shaped. 



Cottum. The neck or tapering base of 

 the capsule. 



Columella. The central axis around 

 which are placed the spores in the 

 capsule. 



Cumplanate. Flattened ; lying in the 

 same plane. 



Complicate. Folded upon itself. 



Compressed. Flattened laterally. 



Conduplicate. Folded together length- 

 wise. 



Conidia. Aerial spores formed non- 

 sexual ly. 



Conjugation. The union of two similar 

 cells to form a third ; the simplest form 

 of sexual reproduction. 



Coriaceous. Leathery in consistence. 



Cortical. Belonging to, or relating to, 

 the bark or what answers to it. 



Costate. With a midrib. 



Crateriform. Like a truncated cone, 

 With a concavity at the top. 



Crisped. Wrinkled into little undula- 

 tions on the edges. 



Crustaceous. Forming a crust over the 

 substrate; mostly hard and brittle. 



Cryptostomata. Small pits on the sur- 

 face of an alga-frond, from which grow 

 tufts of hairs. 



Cuculliform. Hood-shaped, conical and 

 cleft on one side, moi-e or less oblique. 



Cyathiform. The shape of a goblet or 

 wine-glass. 



Cyphels. Little spots, cup-like or convex 

 in form, on the under side of certain 

 Lichens; often whitish or yellowish. 



Decurrent. Prolonged down the stem. 



Dehiscing. Splitting into regular parts. 



Deliquescent. Becoming when old dis- 

 solved into a semi-liquid mass. 



Dendroid. Tree-like in form or appear- 

 ance. 



Dentate. Toothed; the teeth not ob- 

 lique. 



Denticulate. Minutely dentate. 



Diaphanous. Transparent or translu- 

 cent. 



Diaphragm. A dividing membrane or 

 partition. 



Dichotomous. Two-forked. 



Dimidiate. Halved, or as if one half 

 was wanting or only partially devel- 

 oped. 



Disciform. Depressed and circular like 

 a disk. 



Disk (of apothecium). The hymenial 

 portion, which is often colored differ- 

 ently from the thallus. 



Dorsal. Relating to the back. 



Ecostate. Without a midrib. 



Elater. Elastic spiral threads found 

 with the spores in Hepatics. 



Entire. Without toothing or division; 

 the margin Avhole and even. 



Epiphytic. Growing attached to a plant 

 or inorganic support, but deriving no 

 nourishment from it. 



Erose . Irregularly notched as if gnawed. 



Exciple. The sterile border of an apo- 

 thecium. 



Excurrent (costa). Extending beyond 

 the apex of the leaf. 



Exserted. Protruding above. 



Falcate. Scythe-shaped. 



Fasciculate (branches). Clusters of 

 short, lateral, unequal branches. 



Fibrillose. Furnished with fibrils or 

 thread-like outgrowths. 



Fibro-vascular bundles. Strings or rods 

 of tissue forming the framework of 

 plants and consisting of woody fibres 

 and ducts. 



Fission. The act of splitting into two 

 equal parts. 



Floccose (trama). Made up of inter- 

 tangled threads, like wool. 



Flocculent. Made up of little bunches 

 of delicate woolly fibrils. 



Foliaceous. Leaf-like in texture or ap- 

 pearance ; flat and expanded like a leaf. 



Foliose. Bearing leaves. 



Frond. The broad leaf-like or ex- 

 panded thallus of certain Alga;; also 

 portions of a similar nature in higher 

 plants. 



