GLOSSARY. 



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micropyle or true apex down near to 

 the hilum; 279. 



Canalicaulate (-atus). Channelled, or 

 with a longitudinal groove. 



Cdncellate (-dtus). Latticed; resembling 

 lattice-work. 



Candid us. Pure white. 



Canescens. Hoary, usually with gray 

 pubescence. 



Canus. Gray-white; whiter than the 

 preceding. 



\ So slender that it 



Capillaceous(-eus). f may be compared 



Capillary (-aris). I with the hairs of 

 ) animals. 



Capitate (-a(us). Head-shaped, or col- 

 lected in a head; 147. 



Capitellate (-atus). Diminutive of Cap- 

 itate. 



Capitulum. A head of or simple globu- 

 lar cluster of sessile flowers; 147. 



Caprcolate (-atus). Bearing a tendril 

 (capreolus). 



Capsule (-ula). A dry and dehiscent 

 pericarp composed of more than one 

 carpel ; 289, 293. 



Capsular. Of the nature of, or relating 

 to, a capsule. 



Capsultferous. Capsule-bearing. 



Carci'i-ulus. An unused name for an 

 indehiscent and several-celled dry 

 fruit; 297. 



Carina. A keel; used either for the 

 two combined lower petals of a papil- 

 ionaceous corolla (185); or for a sa- 

 lient longitudinal projection on the 

 centre of the lower face of an organ, 

 as on the glumes of many Grasses. 



Connate {-atus). Keeled. 



Cat-iopsis or Carynpsis. A grain ; a seed- 

 like fruit with thin pericarp adnate to 

 the contained seed ; 295. 



Carneus. Flesh-colored, very pale red. 



Caro. Flesh, as the pulp of a melon, or 



the fleshy part of a drupe. 

 Carpndilium. Synonym of Cremocarp. 

 Carpel, Carp^lluin. A simple pistil, or 

 an element of a compound pistil, an- 

 swering to one leaf; 167, 260. 

 Carpid, Carpidium. Synonym of carpel. 

 Cnrpolngy. The botany of fruits. 

 Carpophore (Carj>6/>/i<>rum). A portion 

 of receptacle prolonged between the 

 carpels; 212. 

 Cdrpophyll (Carpophyllum). Literally 



fruit-leaf; synonym of Carpel ; 260. 

 Cartilaginous or Cnrtilagineous (-eus). 

 Of the texture of cartilage or gristle; 

 firm and tough. 



Caruncle (Caruncula). An excrescence 

 at or about the hilum of certain seeds; 

 308. 



Caryophyllaceous(-eus). Resembling or 

 relating to the corolla of Dianthus 

 Caryophyllus (246), or to the Pink 

 family. 



Caryopnis. See Cariopsis. 



Cngside . Helmet-shaped. 



Cassus. Empty, as an anther contain- 

 ing no pollen. 



Cntitrate (-atus). Said of a stamen 

 which wants the anther. 



Catapetalous (-us). Where petals are 

 united only by cohesion with united 

 stamens, as in Mallow. 



Cataphylla. Answers to the German 

 " Niederblatter," or under-leaves, 

 those at the beginning of a growth, 

 cotyledons, bud-scales, scales on rhi- 

 zomes, &c. ; 6. 



Catenulate (-dtus). Formed of parts 

 united end to end, like the links of a 

 chain. 



Catkin. A scaly spike (see Ament); 150. 



Caudate (-atus). Furnished with a tail 

 (cauda), or with a slender tip or ap- 

 pendage resembling a tail. 



Caudex. A trunk or stock of a plant ; 50. 



Caudicle (Caudicula). The stalk of a 

 pollinium, c. 



Caulescent (-ens). Having an obvious 

 stem. 



Caulicle (Cauliculus). The initial stem 

 in an embryo, generally named the 

 Radicle; 10." 



Cauline (-inns). Belonging to the stem. 



Caulis. Greek form Caulun. The stem 

 of a plant. 



Caulocdrpic or Caulocarpous. Applied 

 to plants which live to flower and 

 fructify more than once or indefi- 

 nitely. 



Caulome, Cauloma. The stem-part of a 

 plant. 



Cephalanthium. One of the names of 

 the head or capitulum in Composite ; 

 148. 



Cell ( Ctllula). The anatomical element 

 of plants; 28. The cavity of an 

 anther which contains the pollen, 

 or an anther-lobe, thus taken in the 

 sense of the circumscribing wall as 

 well as the cavity; 251, 254. The 

 cavity, or any one cavity of an ovary 

 or pericarp, containing the ovules or 

 feds; 262. 



Cellular Plants, Cellulares, 340. 

 Cellule (-ula). Diminutive of cell; of 



