50 _ DICTIONARY OF 
Calyx; as is the case with most of the plants in the clafs 
Syngenesia. The Dandelion is. an example. Pl. 4. f. 
23. (a.) ; 
Common FruitstTaLx, ‘bearing several flowers, 
Communis (common.) 
CoMPACTUS, firm, 
Compact (coarctatus) growing close, and as it were prefsed 
together. 
ComrPpuetus, complete flowers, such as have both a cup and 
a blofsom. baat ’ 
Comp .icatTvus, doubled together. 
Composit! (compound.) i igo % nine 
CoMPouND FLow£RS; (compositi flores) consist of many — 
florets or little flowers, upon one receptacle.or seat, and 
included within one common Calyx ; as most of those in 
the clafs Syngenesia ; a Thistle is a familiar example, Pl.4 
£.19. 24, 25, Sometimes, but with lefs propriety, the — 
flowers which grow in Umbels are called compound, a 
those in the second order of the clafs Pentandria; of which 
_ the Carrot-is a well-known instance. beg 
Comprounp UmBEL (umbella composita) when each umbel is — 
subdivided into other little umbels or, umbellules, Pl. 6. — 
3 9. eh we } gt 
——— Buc, composed of several lefser bunches. 
—_——  Srikx, composed of several little spikes or spikets. | 
: — CorymBus, composed of several small corymbs. 
————— Lear, when each leaf-stalk supports. more than one 
leaf ; or when one leaf is inserted into another, as in/Vood 
Horsetail. Pl. 7. f.47.49. Pl. 8.4. 52.53. 54. $5.50. 
Pl. 9. f. 3. (@.) See also doubly compound ; triply compount. 
——— Berry, when one large berry is composed of several _ 
_ small ones ; as, for instance, the bad) 1b ae aoee 
CompressEp (comprefsus) a term applied to a cylindrical — 
substance more or lefs flatted. Thus suppose a straw to — 
be the cylindrical substance; if this be prefsed between 
the thumb and finger so as to flatten it, we should then 
say it was compretsed. The cup of the Gilliflower or the — 
allflower is comprefsed, and so is the blofsom of the — 
Rattle, and the pod of the Ladysmoek. ae 
—— Lear, one thatis thicker than it is broad. — ae 
Concave (concavus) hollowed out like a bowl; as are the — 
petals of the Cherry or the Hawthorn; the leaves of Broad- _ 
_teaved Plantain: or hollowed in a more general sense, @9 — 
the valves of: the grafses.., _ 
CoNnCEPTACULUM, see Air-bag, = ss 
Connbu pLicatus, folded or doubled together. a 
Cone (strobilus) a species of seed-vefsel formed by a Catkin — 
with hardened scales ; containing a seed within the base — 
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