GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS 
Chaffy; furnished with chaff. 
Chlorophyll; the green coloring matter in 
plants. 
Choripetalous; the petals distinct and free from 
each other. 
A Eiliate; fringed with hairs more or less re- 
sembling eyelashes. 
Circinate; rolled inward from the top. 
Circumsciss; opening by a circular line round 
the sides. 
Clavate; club-shaped, slender below and thick- 
ened upward. 
Claw; the narrow or stalk-like base of some 
petals. 
Cieft; cut into lobes, about half-way to the 
. center. 
Climbing; rising by clinging to other objects. 
Club-shaped; see clavate. 
Clustered; collected into a compact bunch. 
Coalescent; becoming united by growth. 
Coccus; the separable carpels or nutlets of a 
dry fruit, plural cocci. 
Coherent; the union of separate parts. 
Column; the united stamens, or the stamens 
and pistils united into one body. 
Columnar; shaped like a column or pillar, 
Coma; a tuft of hairs at the ends of some 
seeds. 3s 
Compact; closely pressed together. 
Compound; similar parts aggregated 
whole. 
Complete; having all parts. 
Compressed; flattened on opposite sides. 
Concave; hollowed on one side. 
Congested; crowded together. 
Conical; having the form of a cone. 
Connate; united or grown together from the 
first formation. 
Connective; the part of the anther connecting 
its two cells. 
into a 
Connivent; converging, or brought close to- 
gether. 
Continuous; the reverse of interrupted or arti- 
culated. 
Contorted; twisted together. 
Contracted; either narrowed or shortened. 
Convex; a more or less rounded surface 
-Convolute; rolled up lengthwise. 
Copious; numerous, or in large quantity. 
Cordate; heart-shaped. 
Coriaceous; resembling leather in texture. 
Corm; a solid bulb, like that of the taro 
(gabi). 
Corolla; the second set of floral organs, com- 
posed of petals, usually the showy part of 
the flower. 
Corona; a body shaped like a crown. 
Coronate; crowned; furnished with a corona. 
Corymb; a flat or convex, open, compound 
flower-cluster, the inner flowers opening 
first. 
Corymbose; in corymbs, or corymb-like in form. 
Costa; a rib; the midrib of a leaf. 
Cotyledons; the proper leaves of the embryo. 
Creeping; growing flat on the ground and 
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Crenate; an edge with rounded teeth. 
Crenulate; minutely or slightly crenate. 
Crest; an elevation or ridge on the summit of 
any organ. 
Crowded; closely pressed together. 
Crown; see corona, 
Crustaceous; hard and brittle in texture. 
Cryptogamia or Cryptogams; plants not pro- 
ducing seeds. 
Cucullate; hooded, or hood-shaped. 
Culm; the hollow, jointed stem of the grasses. 
Cuneate; wedge-shaped. 
Cup-shaped; like a goblet or cup in form. 
Cuspidate; tipped with a sharp and stiff point. 
Cut; applied generally to any sharp and deep 
division. 
Cyme; a compound, flat or convex, open in- 
florescence, the outer flowers opening first. 
Cymose; furnished with cymes, or cyme-like. 
Deciduous; falling off; applied to those trees 
that shed all their leaves at one time. 
Declinate; turned to one side, or downward. 
Decompound; several times compounded or 
divided. 
Decumbent; reclining on the ground. 
Decurrent; leaves prolonged on the stem be- 
neath their insertion. 
Definite; when of a uniform number; and not 
above 10 to 20. 
Deflexed; bent downward. 
Dehiscence; the regular splitting open of cap- 
sule or anther. 
Deltoid; of a triangular shape. 
Dentate; toothed, the teeth sharp and pointing 
outward. 
Denticulate; furnished with little teeth. 
Depauperate; below the natural size. 
Depressed; flattened or as if pressed down from 
above. 
or Dis.; 
double. 
Diadelpous; stamens united by their filaments 
in two sets. 
Diandrous; having two stamens. 
Dichlamydeous; having both calyx and corolla. 
Dichotomous; two-forked. 
Diclinous; having the stamens in one flower, 
the pistils in another. 
Didynamous; having four stamens in two pairs. 
Diffuse; spreading widely and irregularly. 
Digitate; where the leaflets of a compound leaf 
are all borne on the apex of the petiole. 
Dimorphous; of two forms. 
Dioecious; the male and female flowers on dif- 
ferent plants. 
Disciform or Disk-shaped; 
like a disk. 
Disk; the expansion of a receptacle of a flower; 
the central part of a head of flowers, as in 
the Compositae. 
Disk-flowers; the central flowers in the Com- 
positae. 
Dissected; cut 
divisions. 
Di., in Greek compounds two, or 
flat and circular, 
deeply into many lobes or 
