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Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 

 Cinereous. Ash-colored. 

 Circinate. Eolled downward from the apex. 

 Circumscisslle. Dehiscent by a horizontal circular line. 

 Clavate. Shaped like a club. 



Cleistogamous. Flowers fertilized in the bud without opening. 

 Cleft. Cut about to the middle or to the middle of a half. 

 Coalescent. United. 

 Coma. A tuft of small hairs. 



Commissure. The surface of one carpel contiguous to the other carpel. 

 Compound. Composed of two or more similar parts. 

 Conduplicate. Folded lengthwise together. 

 Coniferous. Bearing cones. 

 Connate. United. 



Connective. That part of the stamen between the two anther cells. 

 Connivent. Approaching closely and often connecting. 

 Convolute. Longitudinally rolled up. 

 Cordate. Heart-shaped. 

 Coriaceous. Leathery in texture. 

 Corm. The solid enlarged fleshy base of a stem. 

 Corolla. The inner of two series of floral envelopes. 

 Corona. A crown-like appendage, especially to the corolla. 

 Corymb. A raceme with the lower pedicels elongated so that the inflores- 

 cence is flat-topped. 

 Corymbose. Borne in corymbs. 

 Costate. Ribbed. 



Cotyledon. The rudimentary leaf or leaves found in the seed embryo. 

 Crenate. Having rounded teeth. 

 Crenulate. Diminutive of crenate. 

 Crested. Having a crest-like appendage. 

 Crown. Corona. 

 Cucullate. Hood-shaped. 

 Culm. The stem of sedges and grasses. 

 Cuneate. Shaped like a wedge. 

 Cusp. A sharp, rigid point. 

 Cuspidate. Bearing a cusp. 



Cyme. A flat-topped inflorescence with the central flowers blooming first. 

 Cymose. Cyme-like. 



Deciduous. Not persistent and evergreen. 

 Decompound. Twice or more divided. 

 Decumbent. Reclining, with ascending ends. 

 Decurrent. Adnate down the stem below the insertion. 

 Deflexed. Turned abruptly downward. 

 Dehiscent. Opening regularly. 

 Deltoid. Broadly triangular. 



Dentate. Toothed, the teeth outwardly projecting. 

 Denticulate. Diminutive of dentate. 

 Depauperate. Stunted. 

 Depressed. Flattened from above. 

 Diadelpbous. Stamens combined in two sets. 



