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Axil. The upper angle between the leaf and 

 the stem or branch which bears it. 



Axillary. Of or from the axil. 



Axile. Situated in the axil. 



Baccate. Berry-like with fleshy pulp. 



Berry. A fruit with wholly pulpy pericarp. 



Bifid. Two-cleft. 



Bipinnate. Twice pinnately compound. 



Bract. Altered scale-like leaf of an inflor- 

 escence. 



Bractlet. Diminiutive of bract, a secondary 

 bract. 



Bracteate. Furnished with bracts. 



Bracteolate. Furnished with bractlets. 



Caducous. Falling very early earlier 

 than deciduous. 



Calyx. The outer of the two series of floral 

 envelopes. 



Calyx-tube. The tube formed by the union 

 of the sepals. 



Campanulate. Bell-shaped. 



Campylotropous. Said of an ovule or seed 

 which is curved, so that the micropyle 

 and hilum are near together. 



Canescent. Hoary with a whitish sub- 

 escence. 



Capitate. Forming a head. 



Capsular. Pertaining to a capsule. 



Capsule. A dry dehiscent fruit formed from 



two or more carpels. 



Carinate. Having a keel-like median ridge. 

 Carpel. A simple pistil or element of a 



compound pistil. 



Carpillary. Of or belonging to a carpel. 

 Caruncle. An appendage at the hilum of a 



seed. 



Catkin. An ament. 

 Caudate. With a tail-like appendage. 

 Chalaze. The point of attachment of an 



ovule or seed with its coats. 

 Chartaceous. Having a paper-like texture. 

 Ciliate. Fringed with small hairs on mar- 

 gin like miniature eye-lashes. 

 Ciliolate. Minutely ciliate. 

 Cinereous. Of an ash-gray color. 

 Circinate. Coiled from the top down. 

 Clavate. Club-shaped. 

 Cleistogamous. Fertilized in the bud. 

 Claw. The narrow stalk-like base of petal, 



sepal, etc. 



Cleft. Cut about to the middle. 

 Coccus. (pi. cocci) One of the portions 



into which a lobed fruit with 1-seeded 



cells splits. 

 Cochleate. Spiral; like a snail-shell. 



