528 



GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Clusifxcca?, 400. 



Clustered: collected into a bunch. 



Clypeute : buekler-sliaped. 



Coacervute : licaped tOL'^ether. 



Coddunale : coliering ; united at the base 

 or farther. 



Coalescence, 249. 



Coalescent : growinjx together. 



Coarctate : crowded together. 



Coated: composed of layers; or fur- 

 nished with a rind. 



Cobwebbed, or cobtvrbhi/ : hearing long 

 hairs like cobweb or gossamer. 



Cocculus Indicus, 384. 



Coccus (pi. cocci) : anciently a berry; 

 now used for the closed carpels into 

 which many fruits s])lit (31G), as 

 those of Euphorbia, fig. 1143,1145, 

 and Verbena, fig. 985. 



Cochledriform : shaped like a spoon [coch- 

 lear). 



Cdchleitc : like a snail-shcU (cochlea). 



Coeoa-iilum, 415. 



Ccelosjieniions : i. e. hollow-seeded ; the 

 top and bottom incurved, as in Co- 

 riander-seed. 



Coffee, 433. 



Coherent: united together. 



Cohesion of parts, 250, &c. 



Coleorhizii (root-sheatli) : the sheath or 

 covering (l)clonging to the cotyle- 

 don or ])lumule) through wliic ii the 

 radicle of most Endogens bursts in 

 germination. 



Collar, collum : the neck or line of junc- 

 tion between the primary stem and 

 root. 



Collective fruits, 318. 



Colocyntii, 423. 



Colored: of some other color than green. 



Columbo-root, 384, 457. 



Columella : the axis, or central column, 

 of a pod or S]iore-case. 



Column : the united filaments of mon- 

 adelplious stamens, or the united 

 filaments and stjde in gynandrous 

 flowers; 281, fig. 468. 



Columnar : pillar-shaped. 



Coma: a tuft of any sort, especially a 

 tuft of hairs on a seed, 321, fig. 

 602 ; the whole head of a tree, &c. 



Comate, or comose : bearing a coma. 



CombretaccoB, 419. 



Commelynaceas, or Commclinacefe. 496. 



Commissure: the line of junction of two 

 carpels ; used mostly in Unibel- 

 liferse, 426. 



Common : used as " genfjral," opposed 

 to partial. 



Cdniplanate : flattened. 



Complete flower : having all the kinds of 

 organs, 222, 238. 



Complicate : folded upon itself. 



Compositte, 435. 



Compound flower, 215, fig. 323-325, and 

 435, tig. 887, &c. 



Compound leaf: one composed of two or 

 more blades, 1 63. 



Compound pistil, 290. 



Componnd spike, raceme, umbel, &c., 216. 



Compressed: flattened on two opposite 

 sides. 



Concentric layers of wood, 112, 123. 



Conchiform : shell-shaped. 



Conrolored : all of one color. 



Condiiplicate ; folded together length- 

 wise, 1-J4. 165. 



Cone: see Strobile, 319. 



Conferrdininnte: stuck together by their 

 adjacent faces, as the cotyledons of 

 Horsechestnut, 327. 



Conferted: crowded. 



Confluent : running together, or blended 

 into one. 



Conformed: similar to; or closely fitted 

 to, as the skin to the kernel of a 

 seed. 



Congested: crowded together. 



Con/jldbate : clustered into a ball. 



Com/fomerate : tliickly clustered. 



Coniferse, 479. 



Conifl'rous : cone-bearing. 



Conjugate: coupled; in single pairs. 



Conjugation, 332. 



Connate: united or grown together from 

 the earliest state, 251. 



Connale-perfoliate, 166, fig. 294. 



Connective, connectivuni : the part of the 

 anther connecting its two cells or 

 lobes, 281, 282. 



Connivent : converging. 



Conoidal: approaching a conical form. 



Consolidated: when unlike parts are 

 grown together. 



Consolidation, 250. 



Continuous : not inteiTupted. 



Contorted: twisted, 272. 



Contort II plicate : twisted and folded. 



Contracted : either narrowed or short- 

 ened. 



Contrarij : opposite in direction to some- 

 thing it is compared with, as the 

 pod of Shepherd's Purse flattened 

 contrary to the partition. 



Convolute (rolled up) or cdnvolutive sesti- 

 . vation, 272. 



Convolute vernation : rolled up length- 

 wise in the bud, 144. 



Convolvulacea, 454. 



Copaiva, 414. 



Copal, 414. 



Copalehe-ljark, 434. 



Cordate : heart-shaped ; shaped like a 

 heart as painted upon cards, the 



