Clay Color (lutescens, luteolus, lutosus, argillaceus), a dull light brownish-yellow color, nearly intermediate between yellow ocher and Isabella color.
Cleis´tocarp, Clis´tocarp (Gr—that can be closed, + fruit), an ascocarp which is entirely closed, and from which the spores escape by its final rupture.
Close, packed closely side by side; said of lamellæ when they are close together; also styled crowded.
Coales´cent (coalescens, ppr. of coalescere, grow together), growing together of similar parts; coherent.
Coch´leate, Cochlear´iform (cochleatus, cocleatus, spiral, < cochlea, coclea, a snail’s shell), shaped like a snail shell.
Cohe´rent (coherens, ppr. of cohærere, stick together, cohere), sticking together of similar parts; sometimes used in the sense of connate.
Collen´chyma (Gr—glue, + Gr—an infusion), in Geaster, etc., a cartilaginous-gelatinous tissue, hygroscopic and with great capacity for swelling, forming one of the inner layers of the peridium; its swelling at maturity causes the outer peridium to burst outward in a stellate manner.
Collic´ulose (colliculus, a little hill, dim. of collis, a hill), covered with little hill-like elevations.
Col´loid (Gr—glue, + semblance), like glue or jelly.
Columel´la (columella, a little column), 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 network. (In Lycoperdaceæ.)