GLOSSARY. 
Caducous: falling away early. 
Csespitose: growing in a tuft. 
Callous: thickened. 
Calyx, 63. 
Cambium, 31. 
Campanulate: see Bell-shaped. 
sr Leti a 83. 
Capillary: hair-like. 
Capsule, 89. 
Capsular: relating to, or with the char- 
acters of a capsule. 
Carinate: keeled; bearing on the back a 
sharp longitudinal ridge. 
. Cariopsis, 95. 
C : a single pistil, or one of the parts 
of a compound pistil. 
Carpellary: pertaining to a carpel. 
Carpophore: Flora, p. 157. 
Piden. inous: hard and ey he 
aruncle: an appendage of the hilum. 
Caudate: tailed. 
Caudex, 17. 
Caulescent: furnished with a stem. 
Cauline: pertaining to the stem. | 
Cell: one of the cavities of the fruit or 
of the anther, &c. 
Celled: divided into cells. 
Cellular Tissue, 3. 
Centrifugal Inflorescence, 48. 
Centripetal Inflorescence, 48. 
Chaff: thin scales or bracts. 
Chaffy: furnished with 
texture of chaff. 
Chalaza, 82. —— 
Character: a phrase employed to distin- 
guish a genus, &c. from all others. 
Chartaceous: of the texture of paper. 
nes the green matter of leaves, 
c 
Ciliate: fringed with a row of hairs. 
Circinate: rolled inward at the apex. 
Circumscissile, 89. 
Cirrhose: bearing tendrils; tendril-like. 
Clasping: enclosing by its base, as a 
the stem. : : 
Clavate: club-shaped. 
Claw: the stalk of a petal. 
Clawed: raised on a claw. 
Climbing: clinging to other objects for 
support. 
Club-shaped: terete and gradually thick- 
ened upward. 
Coated Bulb, 21. 
Cobwebby: bearing fine loose hairs. - 
nn : coiled like a snail-shell. 
erent: growing together. 
Column: hes y 
. the united stamens of the 
ow Fam- 
chaff, or of the 
axis of a compound pistil; 
M ri mde 
* 0| ng 1 . 
D kaps 
xix 
Compressed: flattened. 
Cone: the scaly fruit of the Pine. 
Confluent: running together. 
Conglomerate: heaped together. 
Conical: cone-shaped. 
Connate: growing together at the base, 
as opposite leaves around the stem. 
Connective, 71. 
Connivent: brought near together. 
Continuous: in one piece; not jointed. 
Contorted : twisted; bent. 
Contorted sestivation: see Convolute. 
Contracted: narrowed; not spreading. 
Convolute, 68. 
Cordate: heart-shaped. 
Coriaceous: of the texture of leather. 
Corm, 20 
Corneous: hard like horn. 
Corniculate: bearing a horn or spur. 
Corolla, 64. . 
Corymb, 56. 
Corymbose : branched like a corymb ; 
arranged in corymbs. 
Costate: ribbed. 
Cotyledons, 104. 
Creeping: prostrate, and rooting. 
Crenate : having sharp notches on the 
edge separated by rounded teeth. 
Crenulate: slightly crenate. 
Crested: bearing an elevated ridge. 
Crown: an aj of the corolla at 
the base of mb. |. 2. 
Crustaceous : hard and brittle, like a shell. 
gamous Plants, 107. 
Cucullate: see Hooded. 
Culm, 16. 
Cuneate: wedge-shaped. 
Cup-shaped: shaped like a bowl or cup. 
Cuspidate : ending abruptly in a sharp 
int. 
po 
Cuticle 31. : i 
Cylindrical: round and of nearly equal 
. thickness. 
leaf | Cyme, 60. 
Cymose: arranged in a cyme. 
Decandrous: having ten stamens. 
Deciduous: falling off at, or before, the 
close of the season. —— 2m 
Declining: leaning to one side. 
Lee mens several times divided. _ 
Decumbent: prostrate, but ascending at 
the summit. 
Decurrent: with the edges extending be- 
low the main point of attachment. — 
Definite: few; a number easily counted. 
Definite Inflorescence, 48. — 
Deflexed: bent downward. x 
Dehiscence: the manner in which closed 
