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1- rarely 2- sexual flowers usually without, or with very 

 inconspicuous, perianth. The whole inflorescence is deciduous 

 iu one piece. 



Caudate, furnished with a long slender tail-like tip. 



Chartaceous, paper-like in texture. 



Clad ode, a leaf -like branch of only one internode, e.g., the 

 so-called " leaves " of Asparagus. 



Clavate, club-shaped. 



Claw, the narrow or stalk-like base found in some petals. 



Coccus, one of the lobes of a fruit, each of which is 

 usually derived from a single carpel of the ovary, and when 

 ripe, becomes more or less detached from the other cocci and 

 often from the floral axis. Cocci may be dehiscent or indehi- 

 scent. 



-coccous, in composition, e.g., 5-coccous means composed 

 of 5 cocci. 



Columella, a term applied to the persistent axis of the 

 fruit from which the rest of the fruit falls away in some cases 

 when ripe. 



Commissure, the plane of division between two carpels in 

 Umbelliferous fruits. 



Complicate, folded together lengthwise upon itself. 



Compound, composed of two or more similar parts, thus 

 a compound leaf is composed of two or more separate leaflets, 

 a compound inflorescence of smaller inflorescences. 



Connate, united one to another. The term is used of 

 similar parts only, such as sepal to sepal or petal to petal, etc., 

 e.g., the petals of the Cotton plant ; but the union of dissimilar 

 parts, as, e.g. t petal to sepal would be termed " adnate." 



Connivent, weakly cohering or adhering. 



Contorted, applied to a bud in which the parts have their 

 margins overlapping and are at the same time rolled up. 



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