GLOSSARY. 7 
Coma, a tuft. 
Comose, bearing a tuft of hairs. (Plate 134, fig. 4.) 
Commissure, a line of junction (as seen in fig. 7, plate 168; fig. 11, plate 150; fig. 8, 
plate 152, etc.). 
Compound leaf, fig. 2, plate 69; compound pistil, fig. 5, plate 30; compound umbel, fig. 1, 
plate 63. 
Compressed, flattened upon opposite sides (the seeds, fig. 12, plate 11). 
Conduplicate, folded upon itself on its longest diameter, like a double sheet of note paper. 
Cone, a dry, compound fruit, like that of the pine. (Plate 164, fig. 2.) 
Confluent, blended together. See Coherent. 
‘Conjugate, coupled in single pairs. (Plate 149, fig. 4.) 
Connate, see Coherent. 
Connective, that portion of the anther that connects its cells. (Plate 1, fig. 6.) 
Connivent, brought close together (the styles, fig. 2, plate 13). 
Contorted, twisted together. 
Contracted, either narrowed or shortened (corolla, fig. 4, plate 138). 
Convolute, rolled up lengthwise, one edge over the other. 
Cordate, heart-shaped at the base. (Plate 109, fig. 2.) 
Cortaceous, leathery. 
Corm,a solid bulb. (Plate 168, fig. 3.) 
Corneous, horny. 
Corniculate, bearing a small horn-shaped appendage (the lateral lobe of fig. 4, plate 121). 
Corolla, usually the inner flower leaves, generally showy in form or color. (Plate 128, fig. 2.) 
Corona, a crown-like appendage, or group of the same. (Plate 134, fig. 3.) 
Coronate, crowned (the achenium of fig. 4, plate 93). 
Corymb, a flat, or convex, flower-cluster where the peduncles or pedicels do not all issue 
from the same point upon the stem. 
Corymbose, like a corymb in form. (Plate 30, fig. 2.) © 
Cotyledons, the leaves of the embryo—as the oily meats of the butternut, which consist of 
the cotyledons only, joined by their connective. 
Crateriform, shaped like a goblet. 
Creeping, growing horizontally upon, or beneath, the ground. (Plate 104, fig. 1.) 
Cremocarp, the double achenium of the Umbelliferae. (Plate 68, fig. 7.) 
Crenate, scalloped upon the edge with rounded teeth. (Plate 158, fig. 2.) 
Crested, bearing an elevated appendage like a crest. (Plate 45, fig. 4.) 
Grinite, furnished with long hairs (calyx and leaf bases of plate 31). 
Crown, see Corona, 
Cruciate, or Cruciform, shaped like a cross.. (Plate 58, fig. 3.) 
Crustaceous, hard and brittle. 
Cryptogamous, said of plants that bear no flower—as mosses, ferns, and lichens. 
Cucullate, hood-shaped (fig. 6, plate 45, the stigma). : 
Cuneate, Cuneiform, wedge-shaped (the leaflets of plate 48). : 
Cup- shaped, Cupuliform, wine-glass-shaped (the corolla, fig. 3, plate 79). 
Cuspidate, tipped with a sharp, stiff point (the apex of fig. 2, plate 17 9). 
Cut, see Incised. 
Cyathiform, shaped like a wine-glass. 
Cylindraceous, approaching to a : - Oe, eer eee 
Cylindrical form, as stems that are round and gradually taper ing. (Plate 179, fig. 2.) oe 
Cyme, a centrifugal inflorescence. (Plate 75, fig. 1-) ee aa. 
Cymose, having a cyme-like character. _ 
