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Compositus caulis. A compound stem, the parts diminishing 



as they ascend. 

 Compositum folium. When the petiola bears more than one 



leaf, of which there are the following kinds, Articulatum, 



Digitatum, Conjugatum, Pedatum, Pinnatum, Decompo- 



situm, Supra-decompositum. 

 Compositae. A natural Order of plants in the Fragmenta me- 



thodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Compressus caulis. A stem resembling a cylinder compressed 



on the opposite sides. 

 Concavum/ota*™. Hollowed, the margin of the leaf forming 



an arch with the disk. 

 Conceptaculum. A pericarpium of a single valve, which opens 



longitudinally, and the seeds not affixed to it. 

 Conduplicatum/o/iMm. Doubled together, when the sides of 



a leaf are parallel, and approach each other. 

 Conferti rami. Branches crowded together. 

 Conferti verticilli, fores. When flowers are crowded together 



and formed into whorles round the stalk. Ex.Lythrum, 



Class xi. Order 1. 

 Confluentia folia. To flow together, as in the pinnated leaf, 



when the pinnae run into one another. 

 Conglobatus fes. When flowers are collected into globular 



heads. 

 Conglomeratusj?^. Flowers irregularly crowded together. 

 Congesta umbella. Flowers collected into a spherical shape, as 



in garlick. 

 Conica scahities. A species of setaceous scabrities, scarce vi- 

 sible to the naked eye, on the surface of plants, formed like 



cones. 

 Coniferae. Plants bearing cones, as the genus Pinus, a natural 



Order in the Fragmenta methodi naturalis of Linnaeus. 

 Conjugatum. To join or couple together, a species of pin- 

 nate leaf, where the foliolae are by pairs. 

 Connatum. To grow together when two opposite leaves unite 



at their base, so as tp have the appearance of one leaf. 



