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HORTUS JA'MAICENSrS. 



Coma. A species of bracte, terminating 

 ^he-stem in a tuft or bush,. A spike of 

 flowers terminated by a coma is named 

 Comose ; and plants with such flowers 

 are ranged in the thirty-sixth of the Na- 

 tural Orders in Linneus's 1'hUosophia 

 Botanica, 

 Common bud. Containing both leaves and 

 -flowers. Common peduncle, bearing 

 several flowers. Common perianth, in- 

 closing several distinct fructifications, as 

 in the class Syngenesia. Common re- 

 ceptacle, connecting several distill* t 

 fructifications, as in the same class. 

 'Complete II iwer. Furnished bath with 



eal\ x and corolla. 

 COMPLICATE. Folded together, as the 

 valves of the glume or chaff in -some 

 grasses. 

 Composite, or Composite The name of 

 -.the twenty- first order in the Fragments 

 efaNaiural Method in Linneus's Philo.t. 

 Botan. the forty-ninth of the Natural 

 Orders in his Gen. PL in rloyen's Sv - 

 tem, and others. Comprising the plants 

 with compound flowers. 

 Compound (ampasitus) stem; dividing 

 into branches Leaf: connecting se- 

 veral leaflets on one petiole, which in 

 ibis ease is called a common petiole 

 Flower: a species of aggregate flower, 

 containing several fleets', enclosed in a 

 'Common perianth, and on a common re- 

 ceptacle ; with the anthers connected in 

 a cylinder, as in the class Syngenesia. 

 Saceme : composed of several racemules, 

 or small -racemes. Spike: composed of 

 several spicules or spikelets. Corymb: 

 formed of several small corymbs. Vm- 

 b ' : having all the rays or peduncles 

 bearing umbellules, or small umbels at 

 the top. Fructification : consisting of 

 several confluent florets ; opposed to 

 simple. 

 Concave leaf. When the edge stands 



above the disk. 

 CONCRPTACLE or Follicle. A pericarp of 

 one valve, opening longitudinally on one 

 d .-'. and having the seeds loose in it. 



Condensed branches. Pressed or sq'.ieez- 

 ed together, so ciose as almost to oe in- 

 cumbent, or lie over each other at their 

 ends. 



CoNDUPLlCATE, doubled together. 



CONFfiftTUr. Crowded or clustered. 



Confluent leaves. United at the base; 

 growing in tufts, sons to leave the inter- 

 mediate parts of the stem bare. Conflu- 

 ent hbes; running into one another : in 

 opposition to distinct. 



Congestus, heaped together. 



Conglomerate. When a branching pe- 

 duncle bears flowers on very short pedi- 

 cles, closely heaped and compacted to- 

 gether, without order. 



Conifers. The fifteenth order in Lin- 

 neus's Fragments of a Natural Method; 

 and the fifty-first of the Natural Orders, 

 at the end of (rcn PI. Containing the 

 cone-bearing trees. As fir, pine, cy- 

 press, llnijii, &c. 



(' >njugatf leaj (folium conjugatiim). A 

 pinnate leaf winch has only one pair of 

 leaflets Conjugate raceme : hat ing two 

 racemes only, united by a common pe- 

 duncle. 



Connate leaf (folium connetum). When 

 two opposite leaves are so united at their 

 basesas to have the appearance of one 

 leaf: as in tlie Garden Honey suckle. 

 This term is applied also to filaments 

 and anthers, united into one body ; as in 

 the tlass s Monodelphia .aid Syngenesia. 



Contoiit.e. (to twist together). The 

 29ih order in the Fragments of a Natu- 

 ial Method, in Philos Bot and the 30th 

 of the Natural Orders in Gen PL Lin. 



Co ^VERGING. Applied to the corolla, when 

 the tips of the petals meet so as to close 

 the flower; as in 7 tollius.: to anthers, 

 approaching or inclining towards each 

 other, as in the class Didynamia : to the 

 sleep of plants ; when two-opposite lea\ es: 

 .are so closely applied to each otherby 

 their upper surfa< s as to seem one leaf. 



Convex leaf Kisi ig towards the centre; 

 or, with i le e< . more < ml icted than 

 - the disk, so thai liu: disk is raised. 



Convoluted, 



