200 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Clypeate, buckler-shaped. 



Coadunate, same as ximmtf, i. c. united. 



Coalescent, growing together. Coalescence, 88. 



<'iii:rrtnte, contracted or brought clo M ' together. 



Coated, having an integument, or covered in layers. Coated bulb, 46. 



Cobwebby, same as arachnoid; bearing hairs like cobwebs or gossamer. 



Coccineoui, scarlet-red. 



Coccus (plural cocci), anciently a berry; now mostly used to denote the separable 



carpels or nutlets of a dry fruit. 

 Cochleariform, spoon-shaped. 

 Cochleate, coiled or shaped like a snail-shell. 

 Calospermous, applied to those fruits of Umbelliferse which have the seed hollowed 



on the inner face, by incurving of top and bottom; as in Coriander. 

 Coherent, usually the same as connate. 



Cohort, name sometimes used for groups between order and class, 178. 

 Coleorhiza, a root-sheath. 

 Collateral, side by side. 

 Collective fruits, 118. 



Collum or Collar, the neck or junction of stem and root. 

 Colored, parts of a plant which are other-colored than green. 

 Columdln, the axis to which the carpels of a compound pistil are often attached, 



as in Geranium (112), or which is left when a pod opens, as in A/alea. 

 Column, the united stamens, as in Mallow, or the stamens and pistils united into 



one body, as in the Orchis family. 

 Columnar, shaped like a column or pillar. 

 Coma, a tuft of any sort (literally, a head of hair), 125. 

 Comose, tufted; bearing a tuft of hairs, as the seeds of Milkweed, 126. 

 Commissure, the line of junction of two carpels, as in the fruit of Umbelliferac. 

 Compliant < , llattened. 



Compvuntl leaf, 54, 57. Compound pistil, 107. Compound umbel, 75, &c. 

 Complete (flower), 81. 

 Complicate, folded upon itself. 

 Compressed, flattened on opposite sides. 

 Conctptacle, 168. 

 Concinnouf, neat. 

 Conculur, all of one color. 

 Conch if <>r n>, shell- or half-shell- shaped. 

 Conilii/i/ii-ult , fuldril upon itself lengthwise, 71. 

 Cone, the fruit of the Tine family, 124. Coniferous, conc-bc-aring. 

 ( '.>;//". rliif, much crowded. 



c,if< rnmanatt , stuck together, as the cotyledons in ahorse-chestnut 

 Confluent, blended together; or the same as iW/< r< nt. 

 < 'onfornu </, similar to another thing it is associated with or compared to; or closely 



fitted to it, as the skin to the kernel of a seed. 

 Congested, Conglomerate, crowded together. 

 l'<ii/!<H<'riiti. crowded into a glmnei 

 t'lnijinjnli', coupled; in single pairs. ('<>iijit;/<if!i>n, 170. 

 ('minute, united or grown together from the first formation, 96. 

 Conii'i/i-/" rfnli'il< . -uhen a pair of leaves are connate round a stem, 60. 

 Ctnni-tiri\ r,,nni<-t'irnin. the part of the anther connecting its two cells, 101. 

 Connivi /. converging, or brought close together. 

 <'<>n*>lidnti<in (floral), H4. 

 Consul id<it,</ forms of vegetation, 47. 

 C<it< nts of cells, 136. 



n/iiiis, the reverse of interrupted or articulated. 

 rt, </. twMed together. Cimtnri< <l irstinition, same as convolute, 97. 

 r<iiitiirtii/ilii-ntc. twisted back upon iiself. 

 either narrowed or shortened. 





