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Calyx, the outer cycle of flower parts, usually green, 
Campanulate, bell-shaped. 
Canescent, gray with fine close pubescence, 
Capillary, hairlike. 
Capitate, head-shaped. 
Capsule, a dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel, hence 
usually with two or more chambers, 
Carpel, a simple pistil or one of the units within a compound pistil which 
is thought to embody a modified seed-bearing leaf, joined to others to 
form the pistil, hence usually represented by a chamber or, if the 
ovary is l-chambered, by a valve; the number of carpels within an 
ovary is often represented by the number of stigmas or placentae, 
Carpophore, see Umbelliferae. 
Caruncle, excrescence or appendage at or about the hilum of certain seeds, 
Caryopsis, the fruit of grasses, similar to an a chene but with the seed 
completely joined to the ovary wall, as in a wheat grain, 
Castaneous, chestnut= or red=brown colorede 
Catkin, a slender pendulous spike formed of often incomplete and unisexual 
very simple flowers, 
Caudate, having a slender tail-like appendage. 
Caudex, the perennial usually woody base of an otherwise herbaceous plant. 
Caulescent, having a manifest aerial stems; typical of most plants, 
Cauline, used of leaves which are arranged along the stem, as contrasted with 
basale 
Chaff, thin dry scales or bracts resembling wheat chaff. Chafify, of the 
texture of chaff. 
Channelled, grooved like a gutter or trough. 
Chaparral, the xerophytic type of colony of usually small-leaved thorny and 
rigid shrubs growing on drier mountain slopes. 
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