GLOSSARY. 
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Ciliate; fringed with hairs on the 
margin. 
Cinereous; ash-gray. 
Circinate, 93. 
Circumsclssile, 196. 
Circumscription 5 the general out¬ 
line. 
Cirrhose; tendril-like or tendril¬ 
bearing. 
Clasping, 59. 
Class, 239, 243. 
Classification, 233. 
CUvate ; club-shaped. 
Claw, and Clawed, 137. 
Cleft, 65, 134. 
Climbing, 31. 
Club-shaped; gradually thickening 
upward from a slender base. 
Coadunate; coalescent. 
Coarctate ; crowded ; drawn close 
together. 
Coccus, pi. Cocci, 190. 
Cbchleate : coiled like a short spiral 
shell. 
Collateral; side by side. 
Collective Fruits, 207. 
Colored, 130. 
Columella; a solid axis of a pod; 
p. 642. 
Column ; the stamens or stamens and 
pistils combined; pp. 67, 464. 
Coma; a tuft of hairs. 
Commissure; the face by which 2 
carpels cohere, p. 153. 
Complete flower, 128. 
Complicate ; folded up upon itself. 
Compound flower, 114. 
leaf, 61. 
pistil, 151, 163. 
Compressed ; flattened lengthwise. 
Conduplicate; folded together so 
that the sides are applied face to 
face; 93. 
Cone (or strobile), 208. 
Conglomerate; clustered into a mass. 
Conical, 21. 
Cbnjugate; paired. 
Connate ; united from the first, 86 . 
Connate-perfoliate, 86 . 
Connective, 143. 
Connlvent; converging together. 
Continuous ; the reverse of jointed 
or divided. 
Contorted, 136. 
Contracted ; little spreading. 
Cdnvolute, 93, 136. 
Cordate; heart-shaped, 67. 
Coriaceous; of the consistence of 
leather. 
Corm, 44 . 
Corneous ; horn-like in texture, 215. 
Corniculate ; bearing a small horn. 
Cornute; horned. 
Corolla, 130. 
Cbronate; crowned. 
Cbrticate ; furnished with a harder 
rind. 
Cdrymb, 108. 
Costate ; ribbed. 
Cotyledons, 84. 
Creeping, 30. 
Cremocarp; the seed-like double 
fruit of Umbelliferae. 
Cr&nate, 63. 
Cr6nulate, 63. 
Crested; bearing an elevated ridge, 
like the crest of a helmet. 
Cristate ; crested. 
Cruciform, 138, and p. 30. 
Cryptbgamous Plants, 2, 226. 
Cucullate ; hooded. 
Cucdlliform, p. 642. 
Culm, 29, 53. 
Cuneiform or Cuneate, 66. 
Cupule ; the cup of an acorn. 
Cut, 64. 
Cykthiform; cup-shaped, top-shaped 
and hollow. 
Cymbiform; boat-shaped. 
Cyme, 120. 
Cymose, 120. 
Cymule, 125. 
Decandrous, 146. 
Deciduous ; falling off, 91. 
Declined; bent downwards. 
Decompound, 80. 
Decumbent; reclining on the ground, 
but ascending towards the apex. 
Decurrent; prolonged below the 
insertion, 59. 
Decdssate, 89. 
Dehiscence, 189. 
Deltoid; triangular, like the Greek A 
Dentate ; toothed, 63. 
Denticulate, 63. 
Depressed; flattened from above 
downwards; low, and spreading 
horizontally. 
Di, in composition ; two. 
Diadelphous, 147. 
Diandrous, 146. 
Dichlamydeous; having both calyx 
and corolla. 
Dichbtomous; 2-forked. 
Diclinous, 140. 
Dicotyledonous. 219. 
Djdymous ; double or twin. 
Didynamous; when of 4 stamens 2 
are shorter. 
