200 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Clypeate, buckler-shaped. 



Coadunate, same as connate, i. e. united. 



Coalescent, growing together. Coalescence, 88. 



Coarctate, contracted or brought close together. 



Coated, having an integument, or covered in layers. Coated bulb, 46. 



Cobwebby, same as arachnoid; bearing hairs like cobwebs or gossamer. 



Coccineous, scarlet-red. 



Coccus (plural cocci), anciently a berry; now mostly used to denote the separable 



carpels or nutlets of a dry fruit. 

 Cochlearifbrm, spoon-shaped. 

 Cochleate, coiled or shaped like a snail-shell. 

 Ccelospermous, applied to those fruits of Umbelliferse which have the seed hollowed 



on the inner face, by incurving of top and bottom; as in Coriander. 

 Coherent, usually the same as connate. 



Cohort, name sometimes used for groups between order and class, 178. 

 Coleorhiza, a root-sheath. 

 Collateral, side by side. 

 Collective fruits, 118. 



Collum or Collar, the neck or junction of stem and root. 

 Colored, parts of a plant which are other-colored than green. 

 Columella, the axis to which the carpels of a compound pistil are often attached, 



as in Geranium (112), or which is left when a pod opens, as in Azalea. 

 Column, the united stamens, as in Mallow, or the stamens and pistils united into 



one body, as in the Orchis family. 

 Columnar, shaped like a column or pillar. 

 Coma, a tuft of any sort (literally, a head of hair), 125. 

 Comose, tufted; bearing a tuft of hairs, as the seeds of Milkweed, 126. 

 Commissure, the line of junction of two carpels, as in the fruit of Umbelliferae. 

 Complanate, flattened. 



Compound leaf, 54, 57. Compound pistil, 107. Compound umbel, 75, &c. 

 Complete (flower), 81. 

 Complicate, folded upon itself. 

 Compressed, flattened on opposite sides. 

 Conceptacle, 168. 

 Concinnous, neat. 

 Concolor, all of one color. 

 Conchiform, shell- or half-shell- shaped. 

 Conduplicate, folded upon itself lengthwise, 71. 

 Cone, the fruit of the Pine family,124. Coniferous, cone-bearing. 

 Confertus, much crowded. 



Conferruminate, stuck together, as the cotyledons in a horse-chestnut 

 Confluent, blended together; or the same as coherent. 

 Conformed, similar to another thing it is associated with or compared to; or closeh 



fitted to it, as the skin to the kernel of a seed. 

 Congested, Conglomerate, crowded together. 

 Conglomerate, crowded into a glomerule. 

 Conjugate, coupled; in single pairs. Conjugation, 170. 

 Connate, united or grown together from the first formation, 96. 

 Connate-perfoliate, when a pair of leaves are connate round a stem, 60. 

 Connective, Cnnectivum, the part of the anther connecting its two cells, 101. 

 Connivent, converging, or brought close together. 

 Consolidation (floral), 94. 

 Consolidated forms of vegetation, 47. 

 Contents of cells, 136. 



Continuous, the reverse of interrupted or articulated. 

 Contorted, twisted together. Contorted cestivation, same as convolute, 97. 

 Contortuplicate, twisted back upon itself. 

 Contracted, either narrowed or shortened. 



