ed both longitudinally and transversely.

_Cap_, the expanded, umbrella-like receptacle of the common mushroom.

_Capillitium_, spore-bearing threads, variable in thickness and color,
sometimes continuous with the sterile base, sometimes free, dense, and
persistent, or lax and evanescent, often branched; found in the
Lycoperdons.

_Carious_, decayed.

_Carneous_, fleshy.

_Cartilaginous_, hard and tough.

_Castaneous_, chestnut color.

_Ceraceous_, wax-like.

_Channelled_, hollowed out like a gutter.

_Chlorosis_, loss of color.

_Cilia_, marginal hair-like processes.

_Ciliate_, fringed with hair-like processes.

_Cinerous_, ash-colored.

_Circinate_, rounded.

_Clathrate_, latticed.

_Clavate_, club-shaped, gradually thickened upward.

_Close_, packed closely side by side; also styled crowded.

_Columella_, a sterile tissue rising column-like in the midst of the
capillitium, serving as a point of insertion for the threads which
connect it with the peridium in the form of a net-work.

_Concentric_, having a common center, as a series of rings one within
another.

_Connate_, united by growing, as when two or more caps become united.

_Concolored_, of a uniform color.

_Confervoid_, from the finely branched threads.

_Continuous_, without a break, of a surface which is not cracked, or of
one part which runs into another without interruption.

_Cordate_, heart-shaped.

_Coriaceous_, of a leathery texture.

_Corrugated_, drawn into wrinkles or folds.

_Corticated_, furnished with a bark-like covering.

_Cortina_, a partial veil formed not of continuous tissue but of slender
threads, which in certain mushrooms when young unite the stem with the
margin of the cap. This membrane remains later as a filamentous ring on
the stem, or threads hanging to the margin of cap. Applied to the
peculiar veil of the Cortinarias.

_Cratera_, a cup-shaped receptacle.

_Crenate_, _crenulate_, notched at the edge, the notches blunt or
rounded, not sharp as in a serrated edge, serratures convex.

_Cribrose_, pierced with holes.

_Cryptogamia_, applied to the division of nonflowering plants.

_Cupreous_, copper-colored.

_Cuspidate_, with a sharp, spear-like point.

_Cyathiform_, cup-shaped.

_Cystidia_, sterile cells of the hymenium, generally larger than the
basidia cells, with which they are found.

_Deciduous_, temporary falling off.

_Decurrent_, as when the gills of a mushroom are prolong