GLOSSARY. 



which connects the two cells of an 

 anther. 



Connivent ; the summits meeting or con- 

 verging together. 



Constant; invariable; also never failing. 



nor wanting. 



Contiguous ; so near 

 touch. 



Continuous; without interruption, or 

 articulation. 



Contorted; twisted; or obliquely over- 

 lapping. 



form of a cowl. 



apparently to Culm; the stem of the grasses and cyper- 

 aceous plants. 



Contracted; narrowed; or reduced into Cusp; a stiffish tapering sharp point. 



a smaller compass. 

 Contrary dissepiment ; not parallel, hut 



, . 



at right angles, or nearly so, with the Cyaikifonn; top-sbaped, and hollowed 



calves of the pericarp. 



Convex; presenting an elevated rounded Cylindric; long, round, and of unifo 



surface. 



largin into a terete form. 

 Coraloid ; having the appearance of coral. 

 Cordate; heart-shaped; ovate with a sin 

 us or notch at base. 



base. 



Coriaceous; of a leathery texture. 



Corm, or Cormus ; a fleshy subterranean 

 stem, of a round or oval figure, and an 

 uniform compact texture, as in Arum, 



petals arranged in form of a cross. 

 Crustaceous ; having a dry brittle shell. 

 Cryplogamous plants; those which are 



destitute of visible genuine flowers. 

 CucuJlate or cuculliform ; hooded ; in the 



Cuneate, or cuneiform; wedge-shaped; 



tapering, with straight edges, to the 



base. 

 Oupule ; the cup of an acorn. 



Cuspidate; terminating in a cusp. 

 Cuticle; the outer skin. 



at summit like a cup. 



diameter. 



Convolute; rolled up from one edge or Cyme; a kind of panicle, depressed near- 



ly to the form of an umbel, with the 

 principal peduncles rising from the 

 same centre, but the subdivisions ir- 

 regular. 



Cordate-oblong; oblong, with a cordate Cymose ; with the flowers in cymes, or 



or Indian Turnep. 



Corneous; having the texture of horn. 

 Corniculate ; bearing a small horn. 

 Cornute ; having a horn-like appendage. 

 Corolla ; the delicate (mostly colored) " 



ner covering of the flower, between thej 



calyx and the stamens. 

 Coroniform ; in the shape of a crown. 

 Corrugated ; contracted into wrinkles. 

 Cortical ; belonging to the bark. 

 Corticate ; clothed with a bark. 



approaching that arrangement. 

 Cy mules ; the reduced cymes, or cymose 



clusters, of the Labiatae, sometimes 



called Verticillasters. 



Decandrous ; having (en distinct stamens. 

 Deciduous ; falling off, at the usual time. 



See Caducous. 

 Decimate ; or declined ; bent off nearly 



horizontally ; or curved downward. 

 Dicholomal flower; situated in the fork 



of a dichotomous stem or branch. 



Dichotomous ; 2-forked ; regularly divid- 

 ed in 2 equal branches. 



Diclinous ; having the stamens and pistils 

 in distinct flowers, whether on the 

 same or different plants. 



Corymb ; a mode of flowering ; a kind of Dicotyledonous plants ; where the embryo 



raceme, with the lower pedicels elon- 

 gated so as to form a level top. 



Corymbose ; in the manner of a corymb. 



Corymbulose ; having the flowers in little 

 corymbs. 



Costate ; ribbed ; having ribs. 



Cotyledons ; seed-lobes ; the first crude Digitate ; arranged like fingers. 



leaves of a plant, formed in the seed 

 Craterifarm ; in the form of a bowl, or 



hemispherical cup. 

 Creeping; running along the ground 



and putting forth roots at the nodes. 



the crest of an helmet. 

 Crisp ; curled, or wavy at the edges. 

 Cristate ; crested ; having a crest. 

 Crown ; a circular series of Ipetaloid ap 



pendages at the throat of a corolla 



also, of chaffy scales at the summit of 



an akene. 

 Crowned ; having appendages resembling 



a crown. 

 Cruciate, or cruciform corolla; having 4 



has 2 cotyledons, or seed-lobes. 

 Didymous ; double, or twin. 

 Didj/namous ; having 4 stamens, in pairs, 



1 pair being regularly longer than 



the other. 

 Diffuse ; spreading widely and loosely. 



Digynous ; having 2 pistils, or 2 distinct 



styles and stigmas. 

 Dimerous ; when the component parts of 



a flower are in twos, as 2 sepals, petals, 



&c. 



Crenate; notched on the edge, with the Dimidiate; halved; as if one side, or half 



segments rounded, and not inclining 



to either extremity. 

 Crenulate ; very finely crenate. 

 Crested ; bearing an elevated ridge, like Dioicous; having staminate and pistillate 



had been cut off. 

 Dingy ; of a dull, smoky, or leaden-brown, 

 color. 



flowers on different plants. 

 Dioicously polygamous; having perfect 



and imperfect flowers on different 



plants. 

 Decompound; twice compound ; composed 



of compound parts; much divided. 

 Decumbent; reclining on the ground, 



with base and apex ascending. 

 Occurrence; a running or extending 



down, or backward. 



