Compressed. Flattened laterally. 



Concavo-convex. Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or 

 a lens. 



Cone. The fruit of some fern allies, or a pine or fir-tree with scales forming a 

 strobile; an inflorescence of fruit with overlapping scales. Conlet: a small cone. 

 Conoid: conelike. 



Confluent. Blending of one part into another. 



Connate. United; a term especially applied to similar structures as the bases of 

 two opposite leaves joined through toral growth. 



Connective. The tissue connecting the two "cells" of an anther. 



Connivent. Approximate but not organically united. 



Conspecific. Of the same species. 



Contracted. Narrowed in a particular place, or shortened; the opposite of open or 

 spreading (inflorescence). 



Convoluted. Said of flower parts when rolled in the bud with the edge of one 

 part overlapping the adjacent part. 



Cordate. Heart-shaped, such as the base of a leaf (fig. 787). 



Cordate-clasping. Said of sessile appendages the basal lobes of which surround the 

 stem (fig. 751). 



Coriaceous. Leathery. 



Corm. A solid, bulblike stem, usually found underground. 



Corniculate. Furnished with horns or hornlike processes. 



Cornute. Horned or spurred. 



Corolla. The second whorl of the floral envelope, the units of which are petals; 

 frequently the showy part of a flower. 



Corrugated. Crumpled or folded irregularly. 



Corymb. A racemose type of inflorescence in which the lower pedicels are succes- 

 sively elongate, thus forming a flat-topped inflorescence in which the outer flow- 

 ers open before the inner ones do (fig. 788). 



Corymbose. Said of flowers arranged in corymbs. 



Costa (pi. costae). A rib; the midrib of a leaf. Costate: ribbed; having longitudi- 

 nal elevations. 



Cotyledon. One of the embryo leaves to be found in a seed. 



Crateriform. Shallowly cup-shaped. 



Crenate. Having a margin with low, rounded lobes (fig. 787). 



Crest. An elevation or ridge upon the summit of an organ. 



Crisped, cristate. Irregularly curled (said of hairs or leaf margins). 



Crown. The persistent base of an herbaceous perennial; the top of a tree; a cir- 

 cle of appendages on the throat of a corolla, etc. 



Cruciate. Cross-shaped, used especially for the flowers of Cruciferae. Cruciferous: 

 cross-bearing; a flower with four petals placed opposite each other at right an- 

 gles. Cruciform: cross-shaped. 



Crustaceous. Having a surface with a crustlike texture. 



Cucullate. Hooded, or hood-shaped. 



Culm. The aboveground stem of grasses or grasslike plants (fig. 93). 



Cuneate. Wedge-shaped; tapering toward the point of attachment (fig. 787). 



Cuneiform. The same as Cuneate. 



Cusp. A sharp, rigid point. Cuspidate: tipped with a cusp, or short, rigid point. 



Cymba, cymhiform. A boat or boat-shaped. 



Cyme. A form of inflorescence in which the main axis terminates in a single 

 flower which opens before the lateral flowers arising beneath (fig. 788). 



Cymose. Bearing cymes. 



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