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GLOSSARY. 



Conch if ormis. Shaped like one valve of 



a bivalve shell. 

 Cuncinnus. Neat or elegant. 

 Conculor. Of the same or of uniform 



color. 

 Conduplicate (-atus), Conduplicativus. 



Folded together lengthwise; 133. 



ClIlK . Sec Mrnllllc. 



Cunft /-tin. < 'Joscly packed or crowded. 



Conferrvminate (-ntu.-<). Stuck together 

 by adjacent faces, as the cotyledons of 

 Hurst-chestnut ; :J14. 



Confluent (-ens). lilended intoone; pass- 

 ing by degrees the one into the other. 



Conformed (-ormis). Similar to in form; 

 or closely fitted to, as a seed-coat to 

 the nucleus. 



Conijezttd (-us). Crowded together. 



Conglobate (-atus). Collected into a ball. 



Conglomerate (-utua). Densely clus- 

 tered or heaped together. 



(-.<). Cone-bearing. 

 (-tus). Coupled; in single 

 pairs. Conjugate-pinnate^ 104. 



Connnte (-atus). United congenitally ; 

 107, 182. 



Con/nil: -IK rfiilintf.. United at base in 

 ]>uirs around the supporting axis; 108. 



Connective (-iviiiu). A portion of a sta- 

 men which connects the two cells or 

 lobes of an anther; 251. 



Connivent (-ens). Coming into contact 

 or converging. 



Conocarpium. An unused name for an 

 aggregate fruit, such as a strawberry, 

 consisting of many carpels on a coni- 

 cal receptacle; 2D8. 



Consolidated. When unlike parts arc 

 coherent. 



Continuous. The reverse of articulated 

 or interrupted. 



Contorted (-us). Twisted; or bent or 

 I\\ i-'ed on itself. In .Estivation, the 

 same as Convolute: 138. 



Contortuplicnte (-ntus). Twisted and 

 plaited or folded. 



Contracted. Mil her narrowed or short- 

 ened. 



Contrary (-ariiis). Opposite in direction 

 to the part compared with : as a silicle 

 compressed eontrarv to the dissepi- 

 ment. 



Convolute (-11 tin) or Convolutive (-irns). 

 li'olled up from the sides or longitudi- 

 nally. In /Estivation, 138. In Ver- 

 nation, 133. 



CArnliiiiii ('(-tig). Coral-like. 



Cdrcuhim. Old name for the embryo, 

 or Cor win in is; 311. 



Cordate (-atus), sometimes Cordiform 

 (-<irmis). Heart-.-haped ; like the fig- 

 ure oi' a heart on cards: the stalk at 

 the broader and notched end ; 96. 



Coriaceous (-i-ua). Leathery in consist- 

 ence. 



Cork, 81. 



( "//.//. Of the texture of cork. 



f "i /.// I'.HI-I /i 'fit , 70. 



Conn ( I'lirinus). A bulb-like fleshy 

 stem, or base of a stem ; a "solid 

 bulb;" 61. 



I 'nrii/i'/iliyttfS ( Cormopliyta), 341. 



Corneovf(-eug). ( >l tin texture of horn. 



Coniii'iil i/i (-atus). F'urnished with a 

 little horn. 



Cornu. A horn ; /. f. a horn-like process; 

 sometimes used for Calcnr, a spur. 



Cornute(-utus). Furnished with a horn- 

 like process or spur. 



Corolla. The interior perianth, com- 

 posed of petals; 105, 243. 



Corollaceous (-eus), Corollinus. Pertain- 

 ing to, or resembling corolla. 



Corolliferous (-us). Bearing a corolla. 



i 'on Uijluroiif, ( 'iiruHijIiirce, 340. 



Coro/lula. Diminutive of corolla. 



Corona. A crown : an inner appendage 

 to a petal, or to the throat of a corolla ; 

 210,246. Or any coronet-like append- 

 age at the summit of (crowning) an 

 organ. 



Cdronntt (-atus). Crowned, having a 

 corona, &c. 



Coroniform (-ormis). Shaped like a 

 crown or coronet. 



CSmnjiitt (-atus or -a(ivus). Wrinkled 

 or in folds ; 133. 



' 'urtt. r. Kind or bark. 



Cortirn! (-tills). Kelating to bark. 



Corticate (-atus). Coated with a bark 

 or with an accessory bark-like cover- 

 ing. 



Corymb ( Corymbus). A flat-topped or 

 merely convex ami open flower-cluster 

 of the indeterminate or centripetal 

 order; 140. 



Coi-ymbiferous (-us). Rearing corymbs. 



Ci'iri/iiibose. In corvmbs. or in the man- 

 ner of a corymb. The corymb of 

 Linmvus and of other writers down 

 to Kirper included most cymes. So 

 that much cymose inflorescence is 

 in descriptions loosely said to be 

 corvmhose, or a stem is said to be 

 corymliosely branched, even when 



-the evolution is centrifugal ; 140. 



Costa. A rib ; when single, a midrib 

 or mid-nerve. 



