GLOSSARY 



Crinkly. Same as crisp, which see. 



Crown. An appendage which is between the corolla and the stamens, 

 often attached to the former. 



Culm. The stem of grass or sedge. 



Cultivated plant. One which has been planted or the seeds sown, 

 not growing wild. 



Cup. A concave involucre shaped somewhat like a cup with a con- 

 cave bottom, as in the fruit of the oak. 



Cup-shaped. Shaped like a cup, usually with concave bottom and 

 the sides straight or concave. 



Cylindric, cylindrical. More or less circular in cross section. 



Cyme. A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers with the stalk 

 of each flower attached at different levels on the stem, the 

 center or terminal flowers opening first. 



Cymous. Similar to a cyme. 



Deciduous. Falling off at close of season, referring especially to 



leaves. 

 Decompound. More than once compounded; leaves in which the 



secondary parts are compound or composed of leaflets. 

 Decumbent. Stems or branches in a horizontal or oblique position 



with the ends more or less vertical. 



Definite. Of a constant number, usually not exceeding twenty. 

 Deftexed. Bent or turned abruptly outward. 

 Dehiscent. Opening in a regular or definite manner to discharge 



the contents. 



Dense. Crowded together. 



Depressed-globose. Globose but flattened at the poles or ends. 

 Diadelphous. Stamens with the filaments united into two sets as 



in some Papilionaceae. 

 Diffuse. Widely or loosely spreading. 

 Dioecious. Having staminate flowers on one individual and pistillate 



flowers on another. 



Discoid. Flat and circular like a disk. 

 Disk. A portion of the receptacle of a flower just outside and at 



the base of the pistils. 

 Disk flowers. The regular or tubular flowers in a head of the 



Compositae. 



Dissected. Cut deeply into many lobes or parts as in dissected leaves. 

 Distinct. Applied to parts of the same kind when not united. 



Plainly visible. 

 Divided. Having indentations extending to the midrib or to the 



petiole as in the leaf. 

 Dotted. More or less covered with dots. 

 Double. Referring to flowers which have more than one whorl of 



petals or petal-like organs. 



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