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as the Clematis; by cauline radicals or little fibrous roots, as tne 



creeping American ivy. 

 Ofub-shaved. See clavate, 

 Clustered. See racemed. 

 Cly'-peate. Form of a buckler. See Peltate. 

 Coad'nate. United at the base. 

 Coc'cincous. Scarlet coloured. 

 Coch'leate. Coiled spirally, like a snail shell. 

 Cor/cum. A grain or seed ; tricoccous, 5-seeded, &c. 

 Ctsru'leus. Blue. 

 Colli'nus. Growing on hills. 

 Coloured. Different from green; in the language of botany, green 



is not called a colour. White, which in reality is not a colour, is 



so called in botany. The primitive colours and their intermediate 



shades and gradations, are by botanists arranged as follows: 



Water-colour, hyalinus. 



White, dlbus. 



Lead-colour, cinereus. 



Black, niger. 



Brown, fuscus. 



Pitch-black, ater. 



Yellow, fattens. 



Straw-colour, Jlavus. 



Flame-colour, fulvits. 



Red. rubex. 



Flesh-colour, incarnatus. 



Scarlet, coccincus. 



Purple, purpurcus. 



Violet-colour, cccndco-purpureus. 



Blue, Cfzruleus. 



Green, viridis. 



White is most common in roots, sweet berries, and the petals of 



spring flowers. Black, in roots and seeds. Yellow, in anthers, and 



the petals of compound flowers. Red, in the petals of summer flowers 



and acid fruits. Blue and violet, in the petals. Green, in the leaves 



and calyx. 



Columel'la. That which connects the seed to the inside of the peri- 

 carp. The central pillar in a capsule. 



Column. The style of gynandrous plants; used for columella. 

 Co'ma. A tuft of bracts on the top of a spike of flowers. 

 Compound flowers. Such as are in the class Syngenesia, having flo- 

 rets with united anthers. 



leaf. When several leafets grow on one petiole. 



raceme. When several racemes grow along the side of a 



peduncle. 



umbel. Having the peduncles subdivided into peduncles of 



lesser umbels. 



petiole. A divided leaf stalk. 



peduncle. A divided nowd' stalk. 



i^ompres'sed. Flattened. 



Ccmchol'ogy. The science which treats of shells. 





