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PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY 
Cam'bium. —The growing meristematic layer of a vascular bundle. 
Campan'ulate. —Bell shaped. 
Campylo'tropous. —Applied to ovules or seeds that are curved so as to bring the 
apex and base near together. 
Canes'cent. —White or gray from a coating of fine hairs. 
Capiliit'ium. —A network of filaments among spores, as in slime molds, puff 
balls, etc. 
Cap'itate. —Shaped like a head. 
Caprification. —The process of pollinating figs artificially. 
Cap'sule. —A dry, dehiscent fruit of two or more carpels. 
Car'pel. —A transformed leaf bearing one or more ovules, a simple pistil; a part 
of a compound pistil. 
Car'pophore. —A slender stalk, the prolongation of the receptacle, to which 
the inferior akenes (mericarps) of the Umbelliferce are attached. 
Caryop'sis. —A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit of the grasses or cereals in 
which the fruit wall (pericarp) and seed coat firmly adhere. 
Cat'kin. —A scaly spike of flowers. 
Cau'date.—Tailed. 
Caules'cent.— : With an obvious aerial stem. 
Cau'line. —Pertaining to the stem. 
Centrifugal.—Applied to a flower cluster in which the terminal or central 
flower blossoms first. 
Centrip'etal. —Applied to a flower cluster in which the lower or outer flowers 
bloom first. 
Chaff. —The glumes and palets of grains; the scaly hairs on the stipes of ferns; 
the bracts subtending each floret in some heads of Compositae. 
Chala'za. —That portion of the ovule marked by the junction of the integuments 
with the nucellus. 
Chasmo'gamous.— Pertaining to flowers that regularly open. 
Chlamy'dospore. —Thick walled spore formed within the hyphae of smuts. 
Chlo'rophyll. —The green coloring matter of all green plants. 
Chloroplas'tid. —A protoplasmic body in the cells of green parts of plants con¬ 
taining chlorophyll. 
Chro'matin. —That portion of the nucleus which is readily colored by a basic 
dye. The substance that carries the hereditary characters from parent to 
offspring. 
Chromoplas'tid. — A protoplasmic body in the cells of certain parts of plants 
containing a pigment other than chlorophyll. 
Chro'mosome. —One of the bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is 
resolved during indirect nuclear division. 
Cil'ia.—Vibratory hair-like protoplasmic outgrowths of zoospores, bacteria, 
gametes, etc. 
Circumnuta'tion. —The repeated bending in different directions of the growing 
tips of stems of climbing plants. 
