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GLOSSARY 



Cleft. Cut about to the middle. 



Climbing. Asiending by laving hold of sur- 

 rounding objects for support. 



Cluster. Any assemblage of flowers on a 

 plant. 



Clustered. Collected in a bunch of any sort. 



Coalescence. The union of parts or organs 

 of the same kind. 



Coccus (pi. Cocci). One of the parts into 

 which a lobed fruit with 1-seeded cells splits. 



Cochleate. Spiral, like a snail-shell. 



Cohesion. The union of one organ with 

 another. 



Columella. The persistent axis of some 

 capsules, spore-cases, etc. 



Columnar. Like a column. 



Commissure. The surface by which one 

 carpel joins another, as in the Umbelliferae. 



Comose. Furnished with a coma or tuft of 

 hairs. 



Complicate. Folded upon itself. 



Compound. Composed of 2 or more similar 

 parts united into one whole. Compound 

 leaf, one divided into separate leaflets. 



Compressed. Flattened laterally. 



Concej)tacle. In some Cryptogams a case or 

 receptacle containing the organs of fruc- 

 tification. 



Conduplicate. Folded together lengthwise. 



C onfluent. Running into each other ; blend- 

 ed into one. 



Coniferous. Cone-bearing. 



Connate. United congenitally. 



Connective. The portion of a stamen which 

 connects the two cells of the anther. 



Connivent. Coming into contact; con- 

 verging. 



Conoidat. Nearly conical. 



Convergent. Approaching each other. 



Convolute. Rolled up longitudinally. 



Cordate, Heart-shaped with the point 

 upward. 



Coriaceous. Leathery in texture. 



Corm. The enlarged fleshy base of a stem, 

 bulb-like but sohd. 



Corolla. The inner perianth, of distinct or 

 connate petals. 



Coroniform. Shaped like a <^rown. 



Corrugate. Wrinkled or in folds. 



Corym b. A flat-topped or convex open flower- 

 cluster, in the stricter use of the word equiv- 

 alent to a contracted raceme and progressing 

 in its flowering from the margin inward. 



Corymbose. In corymbs, or corymb-like. 



Cosmopolite. Found in most parts of the 

 globe (of plants). 



Costa. A rib ; a midrib or mid-nerve. 



Costate. Ribbed ; having one or more lon- 

 gitudinal ribs or nerves. 



Cotyledons. The foliar portion or first leaves 

 (one, two, or more) of the embryo as found 

 in the seed. 



Craferiform. In the shape of a saucer or 

 cup, hemispherical or more shallow. 



Creeping. Running along or junder the 

 ground and rooting. 



Crenale. Dentate with the teeth much 

 rounded 



Crenulate. Finely crenate 



Crested, Cristate. Bearing an elevated ap- 

 pendage resembling a crest. 



Crotcn. An inner appendage. to a petal, or 

 to the throat of a corolla. 



Cruciate. Cross-shaped. 



Crustaceous. Of hard and brittle texture. 



Cucullate. Hooded or hood-shaped ; cowled. 



Culm. The peculiar stem of sedges and 

 grasses. 



Ctmeate. AVedge-shaped ; triangular with 

 the acute angle downward. 



Cuspidate. Tipped with a cusp, or sharp 

 and rigid point. 



Cyiindraceous. Somewhat or nearly cy- 

 lindrical. 



Cyme. A usually broad and flattish deter- 

 minate inflorescence, i. e. with its central 

 or terminal flowers blooming earliest. 



Cymose. Bearing cymes or cyme-like. 



Deciduous. Not persistent; not evergreen. 



Decompound. More than once compound or 

 divided. 



Decumbent. Reclining, but with the summit 

 ascending. 



Decurrent (leaf). Extending down the stem 

 below the insertion. 



Decurved. Curved downward. 



Decussate. Alternating in pairs at right 

 angles, or in threes. 



Definite. Of a constant number, not ex- 

 ceeding twenty. 



Deflexed. Bent or turned abruptly down- 

 ward. 



Dehiscent. Opening regularly by valves, 

 slits, etc , as a capsule or anther. 



Deltoid. Shaped like the Greek letter A. 



Dentate. Toothed, usually with the teeth 

 directed outward. 



Denticulate. Minutely deutate. 



Dej)ressed. Somewhat flattened from above. 



Di-, DiS: A Greek prefix signifying two or 

 twice. 



Diadelphous (stamens). Combined in two 

 sets. 



Diandrous. Having two stamens. 



Dicarpellary. Composed of two carpels. 



Dichotomous. Forking regularly by pairs. 



Dicotyledonous Having two cotyledons. 



Didymous. Twin ; found in pairs. 



Didynamous (stamens). In two pairs of un- 

 equal length. 



Diffuse. Widely or loosely spreading. 



Digitate. Compound, with the members 

 borne in a whorl at the apex of the support. 



Dimerous (flower). Having all the parts in 

 twos. , 



Dimidiate. In halves, as if one half werd 

 wanting. 



