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CAP'SULE, an enclosing envelope usu- 
aly thin and membranous. 
CARBONACEOUS, rigid, blackish, and 
brittle; like or composed of carbon or 
coaly matter. 
CAR'INATE, furnished with a keel or 
projecting longitudinal line. 
CA'RIOUS, decaying; decayed. 
CAR'NEOUS. of a fleshy substance; 
flesh-colored. 
CAR'NOSE, fleshy. 
CARTILAGINOUS, firm and tough; 
gristly, 
CASTA'NEOUS, chestnut-colored. 
CAU'DATE, having a tail-like append¬ 
age. 
CAULIC'OLOUS, growing on herba¬ 
ceous stems. 
CELL, (a) a little cavity, compartment 
or hollow place; (b) a mass of proto¬ 
plasm of various size and shape, gener¬ 
ally microscopic, with or without a 
nucleus and enclosing wall, the funda¬ 
mental form-element of every organ¬ 
ized body. 
CBLL'ULAR, composed of cells. 
CELL'ULOSE, the essential consti¬ 
tuent of the primary wall-membrane of 
cells, a secretion from the contained 
protoplasm; allied to starch, sugar and 
inulin. 
CENTRIF'UGALLY, from the centre, 
outwards. 
CENTRIP'ETALLY, from the circum¬ 
ference toward the centre. 
CE'PAEFORM, onion-shaped. 
CERA'CEOUS, waxy. 
CEREB'RIFORM, brain-shaped. 
CER'VINE, fawn-colored. 
CHAN'NELED, grooved; hollowed out; 
trough-like; canaliculate. 
CHARTA'CEOUS, like paper. 
CHLAM'YDOSPORES, (encased spores) 
are thick walled resting spores usually 
formed in rows on hyphae; are re¬ 
garded as rudiments of sporan¬ 
gia or conidiophores which interrupted 
in development have assumed the form 
of spores; on germination they usually 
develop into sporangia or conidiophores. 
CHLO'ROPHYLL, the green coloring 
matter of plants 1 . 
CHLORO'SIS, blanching; whitening; et¬ 
iolation. 
CILTA, (plural of CIL'IUM), short, 
straight, parallel hairs, fringing the 
margin. 
CIL'IATE, fringed with cilia. 
CINE'REOUS, ash-colored. 
CIN'NABARINE, cinnabar-colored; 
brilliant red, vermilion. 
CINNAMO'MEOUS, cinnamon colored. 
CIR'CINATE, disposed in a circle; 
circular; rolled inwards from the sum¬ 
mit towards the base. 
CIRCUMSCIS'SILE, opening or dividing 
by a circular or equatorial line. 
CIT'RINE, CIT'REOUS, CIT'RINOUS, 
lemon-yellow-colored. 
CLATH'RATE, CLATH'ROID, latticed. 
CLA'VATE, CLAVTFORM. club-shaped; 
gradually thickened towards the top. 
the top. 
CLEIS'TOCARP, CLIS'TOCARP, an as- 
cocarp which is entirely closed, and 
from which the spores escape by its 
final rupture. 
CLOSE, said of lamellae when they are 
close together. 
COALES'CENT, growing together of 
similar parts; coherent. 
COCH'LEATE, COCHLEAR'IFORM, 
shaped like a snail-shell. 
COERU'LEOUS, CERU'LEOUS, light 
blue; sky blue. 
COHE'RENT, sticking together of sim¬ 
ilar parts; sometimes used in the sense 
of connate. 
COLLEN'CHYMA-LAYER, in Geaster, 
etc., a cartilaginous-gelatinous tissue, 
hygroscopic and with great capacity for 
swelling, forming one of the inner 
layers of the peridium; its swell¬ 
ing at maturity causes the outer 
peridium to burst outwards in a stellate 
manner. 
COLLIC'ULOSE, covered with little hill¬ 
like elevations. 
COL'LOID, like glue or jelly. 
COLUMEI/LA, a sterile tissue rising 
column-like in the midst of the capil- 
litium. 
CO'MATE, CO'MOSE, CO'MOUS, fur¬ 
nished with a tuft of silky hairs; hairy. 
COMMEN'SALISM, symbiosis. 
COM'PLANATE, flattened vertically to 
a level surface above and below. 
COMPRESSED', flattened laterally. 
CONCAT'ENATE, linked together in a 
chain. 
CONCAVE', having a rounded incurved 
surface. 
CONCEN'TRIC, having a common cen¬ 
tre, as a series of rings one within the 
other. 
CONCEP'TACLE, a closed sporiferous 
body. 
CON'CHIFORM, shell-shaped; resem¬ 
bling a clam-shell in shape. 
CONCOL'OROUS, of a uniform color. 
CONCRES'CENT, growing together. 
CON'CRETE, coalescent; united in a 
coagulated, condensed or solid state; 
grown together. 
CONFER'VOID, loose and filamentous. 
CON'FLUENT, blended into one. 
CON'GENER, of the same genus or 
kind. 
CONGENER'IC, CONGENER'ICAL, 
CONGEN'EROUS, belonging to or 
nearly allied to the same genus. 
CONGENET'IC, produced at the same 
time or by the same cause; alike in 
origin. 
CONGLO'BATE, collected in a sub- 
spherical mass. 
CONGLOM'ERATE, densely clustered; 
gathered into a round mass; composed 
of heterogeneous materials. 
CONGLU'TINATE, as if glued together. 
CONID'IAL, pertaining to or of the na¬ 
ture of a conidium or conidia; charac¬ 
terized by the formation of conidia; 
bearing conidia. 
CONIDIIF'EROUS, CONIDIOPH'OR- 
OUS, bearing conidia. 
