Appendix VI: Glossary. 
Commissure. The surface by which two 
earpels cohere, as in Umbelliferae. 
Common. Belonging equally to more 
than one. 
Comose. Having a coma. 
Complanate. Flattened; of leaves upon 
a stem, lying nearly in the same 
plane. 
Complicate. Folded together. 
Compound. The opposite of simple; 
consisting of more than one; divided 
Compressed. Flattened laterally. 
Concave. Hollow, as the inner surface 
of a saucer. 
Conduplicate. Doubled 
lengthwise, of leaves. 
Cone, or Strobile. A dry multiple 
fruit formed of densely imbricated 
scales, 
Confervoid. Of slender diffuse fila- 
mentose structure, like Conferva 
among the Algae. 
Confluent. Blended or running to- 
gether. 
Congested. Crowded together. 
Conglobate. Collected into a ball or 
clobe. 
Congomerate. 
gether. 
Conical. Shaped like a cone; nar- 
rowlng to a point from a circular 
base. 
Coniferous. Bearing cones. 
Conjugate. Arranged in single pairs. 
Connate. United in one; growing to- 
gether. 
Connective. The portion of the fila- 
ment which connects the cells of 
the anther. 
Connivent. Coming in contact; con- 
verging together. 
Constricted. Contracted or drawn to- 
gether, as a bag by its string. 
Continuous. Not interrupted by joints 
or otherwise. 
Contorted. Twisted; in aestivation, 
an equal and uniform somewhat 
oblique overlapping and rolling up 
of the parts of the circle. 
Contracted. Reduced in width or 
length. 
Convex. Having amore or less rounded 
surface; opposed to “‘concave”. 
Convolute. Rolled together from one 
edge. See Contorted. 
together 
Clustered densely to- 
| Crested. 
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Cordate. Heart-shaped, i. e. ovate 
with rounded lateral lobes pro- 
jecting beyond the base and forming 
a sinus. 
Coriaceous. Of the stiffness and con- 
sistence of leather. 
Corky. Resembling cork. 
Corm. <A solid fleshy rounded or 
depressed subterranean body, the 
base of a stem and bulblike in 
appearance. 
Corneous. Of the consistence of horn; 
horny. 
Corolla. The inner perianth, within 
the calyx, consisting of the petals. 
Corolline. Seated or belonging to the 
corolla. — Corolla-like or petaloid. 
Corona, or Crown. An appendage at 
the throat of the corolla, or acrown- 
like margin at the top of a seed 
or other organ. 
Coronate. Having a crown. 
Cortex. The bark, or similar outer 
covering. 
Cortical. Relating to the cortex. 
Corticated. Having a cortex. 
Corymb. A flat-topped or convex 
open inflorescence, with short axis, 
flowering from the margin inward; 
a depressed raceme. 
Corymbose. In corymbs or resembling 
a corymb. 
Costa. <A rib, mid-rib, or mid-nerve. 
Costate. Having one or more longi- 
tudinal ribs or nerves. 
Cotyledons. The seed-lobes or leaves 
of the embryo. 
Crateriform. Shaped like a goblet 
or shallow cup. 
Creeping. Running upon or under 
the ground and rooting. 
Crenate. Scalloped; having rounded 
_teeth with shallow acute sinuses. 
Crenulate. Finely crenate. 
Having an elevated ridge 
or appendage like the crest of a 
helmet. 
OCribose. Perforated, like a coarse 
sieve. 
Cristate. Crested. 
Crown. See Corona. 
Cruciferous. Belonging to the Cruci- 
ferae, with cruciform or cross- 
shaped corolla. 
Crustaceous. Hard and brittle. 
