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Coated, composed of layers, as the 
bulb of the onion 
Cochleated, snail-shaped _ 
Column, the central pillar in a cap- 
sule 
Columnar, like the shaft of a column 
Compact, growing close, as it were 
pressed together 
Complicate carinate, doubly keeled 
Compound flowers, consisting of 
many florets or little flowers 
Compressed, a stem having two op- 
posite sides, plain or flat 
Conduplicate, folded, or doubled to- 
gether 
Confluent, running one into another 
at the base 
Congested, heaped together 
Conjugated leaf, a pinnate leaf with 
only one pair of leaflets 
Connate, united at the base 
Connivent, converging 
Converging, applied to the corolla, 
when the tips of the petals meet 
so close as to shut the flower 
Conyoluted, twisted spirally 
Cordate, heart-shaped 
Cordate-lanceolate, heart spear- 
shaped 
Coriaceous, leather-like 
Cornute, horn-shaped 
Corolla, blossom 
Corona, crown 
Corymb, bunch of flowers supported 
on se footstalks 
Costated, ribbed : 
Cotyledones, seed-lobes 
Crenate, scolloped Ee 
Crenato-serrulated, finely notched 
Crested, having an appendage like a 
tuft or crest 
Crinite, hairy 
Cruciform, cross-shaped 
Cucullate, cone-shaped 
Culm, straw 
Deciduous, falling off Sone 
Declining, bent like a bow, with the 
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Decompound, doubly compound, or 
containing within a common 
calyx smaller calyxes common to 
several flowers 
Decumbent, lying down 
Decurrent leaf, having its base run- 
ning down the stem 
Decussated, crossed at right angles 
Deflected, bowed or bent down 
Dehiscent, gaping 
Deltoid, trowel-shaped 
Dentate, toothed 
Denticulate, set with little teeth 
Dichotomous, forked 
Didymous, double 
Digitate, finger-like 
Dimidiate, divided in two parts 
Dicecious, male and female flowers, 
growing on different plants 
Dipetalous, of two petals 
Diphyllous, two-leaved 
Disk, the whole surface of a leaf or 
flower 
Divaricating, straddling 
Diverging, making a right angle 
Drupe, a pulpy seed-vessel, contain- 
ing a nut or stone 
Duplicate, doubled 
E 
Kchinate, set with prickles 
Elliptic, oval 
Elliptic-lanceolate, narrow oval 
Emarginate, notched at the end 
Ensiform, sword-shaped 
Erose, gnawed 
Exserted, protruded, opposed to in- 
closed 
Extra-foliate, growing under the 
leaves 
F 
Farina, see Pollen 
Fascicled, bundled 
Fastigiate, flat-topped 
Sot downy 
emale flowers, containing pistils 
but no stamens — ae 
Fibres, woody strings or nerves 
Filament, the thread-like part of a 
stamen, supporting the anther 
Filiform, thread-shaped 
Fistulous, hollow _ 
Flexuose, zig-zag, windin, 
Floral leaf, the leaf next fhe flower, 
sometimes mistaken for 
calyx 
