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CONID'IOPHORE, a hypha from which 
are abstricted conidia. 
CONID'IUM, (pi. CONID'IA), asexual 
spore formed singly or in chains by ab- 
striction from the ends of hyphae or 
hyphal branches; see under ‘spore.’ 
CO'NIFER, a cone bearing tree. 
CONIF'EROUS, applied to trees bearing 
cones. 
CONJUGA'TION, union of two cells to 
form a spore. 
CON'NATE, grown together from the 
first. 
CONNI'VENT, having an inward direc¬ 
tion, converging, coming in contact; 
said of a cup whose sides curve inward 
and meet at the margin. 
CON'SORTISM, see ‘Symbiosis.’ 
CON'STANT, always present, or always 
in the same condition^ 
CONSTRIC'TED, contracted so as to be 
smaller in one or more places than in 
others. 
CON'TEXT, texture; substance. 
CONTIG'UOUS, near, or in contact. 
CONTIN'UOUS, not deviating from uni¬ 
formity, reverse of interrupted; ap¬ 
plied to spores or hyphae that have no 
septa. 
CONTOR'TED, distorted, twisted, 
crooked, or deformed. 
CON'VEX, elevated and regularly 
rounded; forming the segment of a 
sphere or nearly so. 
CONVEX'O-PLANE, between convex 
and flat. 
CON'VOLUTE, covered with irregular 
convexities and depressions resembling 
the convolutions of the brain. 
COR'DATE, heart-shaped. 
CORIA'CEOUS, of a leathery texture. 
COR'NEOUS, of a horny texture. 
COR'RUGATE, COR'RUGATED, wrin¬ 
kled; contracted; puckered; having a 
wrinkled appearance. 
COR'TEX, the bark; the rind; the out¬ 
er rind-like layer or layers of some fun¬ 
gus-bodies. 
COR'TICAL, of or pertaining to the cor¬ 
tex. 
COR'TICATE, COR'TICATED, having 
a cortex or rind. 
CORTI'NA, marginal veil of spider-web 
structure rupturing at or near the stipe. 
COR'TINATE, provided with or pertain¬ 
ing to a cortina, 
COS'TATE, having a ridge or ridges as 
if ribbed. 
CRATE'RA, a cup-shaped receptacle. 
CRATER'IFORM, basin or saucer¬ 
shaped; having the form of a crater. 
CRE'NATE, scalloped. 
CREN'ULATE, minutely crenate. 
CRETA'CEOUS, chalky; of the color of 
chalk. 
CRIB'RATE, CRIB'RIFORM, CRIB'- 
ROSE, sieve-like; perforated with 
small holes. 
CRI'NITE, having a tuft or fringe of 
long weak hairs. 
CRISP, CRISPED, CRIS'PATE, having 
the surface, especially near the margin, 
strongly and finely undulate, as the 
leaves of the Savoy cabbage. 
CRIS'TATE, crested; bearing a ridge 
mane or tuft on the top. 
CRL'CIATE, CRU'CIFORM, having 
the form of a cross with equal arms. 
CRUSTA'CEOUS, of hard and brittle 
texture. 
CRYP'TOGAM, a plant of the order 
cryptogamia. 
CRYPTOGA'MIA, flowerless plants pro¬ 
pagated by spores. 
CRYPTOGAMTC, CRYPTOG'AMOUS, 
pertaining or relating to cryptogamia. 
CRYPTOG'AMIST, one who is skilled in 
cryptogamic botany. 
CRYPTOG'AMY, obscure fructification, 
as in plants of the class Cryptogamia. 
CULM, the stem of grasses. 
CU'NEATE, CUNEIFORM, wedge- 
shaped. 
CUP, see apothecium. 
CU'PREOUS, copper-colored. 
CU'PULAR, CU'PULATE, cup-shaped. 
CU'PULE, CU'PULA, a receptacle 
shaped like a little cup, as in Peziza. 
CURLED, same as crisp. 
CURT, short. 
CUR'TAIN, same as cortina, 
CUS'PIDATE, tipped with a sharp, rig¬ 
id point. 
CU'TICLE, a distinct skin-like lay¬ 
er; cutis, cuticle, pellicle, and epider¬ 
mis have been used indiscrimately to 
describe the separable or inseparable 
skin-like layer sometimes present on 
the outer surface of the pileus and 
stipe; of these terms, cuticle is used 
most commonly. 
CU'TIS, see cuticle. 
CYA'NEOUS, bright-blue; azure; lapis 
lazuli-blue. 
CY'ATHIFORM, cup-shaped, shape of 
a drinking glass slightly widened at the 
top. 
CYLIN'DRIC, CYLIN'DRICAL, cylin¬ 
der-shaped; applied to a branch or 
stipe having the same or nearly the 
same diameter throughout, and its 
cross section circular. 
CYM'BAEFORM, CYM'BIFORM, boat¬ 
shaped. 
CYST, a bladder-like cell or cavity. 
CYSTIDTUM, (pi. CYSTID'IA), in Hy- 
menomycetes; large unicellular, often 
inflated structure, between and often 
projecting beyond the basidia and par- 
aphyses of the hymenium; (anther, an- 
theridium, old terms for the same.) 
DAUGHTER-CELL, any cell when 
mentioned in relation to the one (moth¬ 
er-cell) from which it was derived. 
DEAL'BATE, as if white-washed; cov¬ 
ered with very white opaque powder. 
DECID'UOUS, (a) falling off at matur¬ 
ity, or at the end of the season, (b) los¬ 
ing the foliage every year. 
DECOR'TICATE, DECOR'TICATED, 
denuded of bark; destitute of a cortex 
or cortical layer. 
