98 PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



Caulescent : furnished with a conspicuous stem. 



Caulixe : borne on the stem, as cauline leaves. 



Centrifugal Inflorescence : that sort of inflorescence in which the 

 flowering proceeds from the centre outward, or from the top 

 downward. 



Centripetal Inflorescence : that sort of inflorescence in which the 

 flowering proceeds from the periphery inward, or from below up- 

 ward. 



Cernuous: nodding. 



Chaff : thin, little scales or bracts on the receptacle of Composites. 



Chaffy : furnished with chaff" (scales, pales). 



Channelled : hollowed out like a gutter. 



Chartaceous : papery. 



CiLiATE : beset on the margin with hairs like the eyelashes. 



Circumscissile: dividing in 2 parts by a circular, transverse line, as 

 the pod of Anagallis. We speak, therefore, of a circumscissile 

 dehiscence. 



Cirrhose : tendril-bearing. 



Clavate : club-shaped. 



Claw : the stalk-like base of some petals. 



CoALESCENT : growing together. 



Cobwebby : bearing hairs like cobwebs. 



Column : a tube formed by the united stamens, as in Mallows ; or a 

 ■cylindrical body formed by the union of stamens and pistils, as 

 in the Orchids. 



CoMosE : tufted, bearing a tuft of hairs. 



Commissure : the line of junction of 2 carpels, as in the fruit of the 

 Umbelworts. 



Compound leaf: a leaf-stalk, bearing several sessile or stalked 

 leaflets, or a leaf-stalk, bearing leaf-stalks, which give rise to seve- 

 ral secondary leaflets, etc. There are palmately- and pinnately- 

 compound leaves. 



Complete flowers : flowers with calyx, corolla, stamens, and (1 or 



more) pistils. 

 Conduplicate : see Embryo. 

 Cone : the multiple fruit of Conifers ; a term rarely applied to other 



multiple fruits. 

 Congeries : a collection of parts or organs. 

 Connate : grown together primarily. 

 Connectile or Connective : the part of the stamens connecting the 



2 cells of the anther. 

 Contiguous : touching ; meeting at the surface or border. 



