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Cleft leaf. Cut into lobes somewhat more than half the dedth of 

 wings (e.g. Silver Maple). 



Compass. A magnetic needle used to determine directions in the 

 woods. 



Compound leaf. One in which the blade or wings are composed 

 of more than one part (e.g. Ohio Buckeye, Mountain Ash). 



Cone. The flower or fruit of a conifer. 



Conifer. A member of the Pine Family or Coniferae. 



Coniferous. Cone-bearing. 



Cooperage. The business of making wooden vessels, as casks, 

 barrels, tubs. 



Coppice. A wood grown from sprouts. 



Corolla. Inner leaves of the flower; generally distinguished from 

 the calyx by being of a color other than green. 



Cotyledon. One of the leaves of the embryo; a seed leaf. 



Cross staff-head. An instrument for turning off angles in survey- 

 ing land, consisting of an octagonal brass box with slits 

 in the faces for sighting through. 



Crowded. Said of trees when so closely grown that the develop- 

 ment of their lateral branches is interfered with. 



Crown of tree. See tree-crown. 



Cuttage. The practice or process of multiplying plants by means 

 of cuttings. 



Cutting. A piece of a leaf, branch, stem, or root which when in- 

 serted in moist material is capable of sending out roots 

 and forming a new plant; a slip. 



Cycle. One of the circles of a flower. 



Deciduous. Falling off; said of leaves that fall in autumn. 



Dehiscent. Said of fruits that open at regular lines. 



Delinquent tax lands. Lands on which taxes have not been paid. 

 They are offered for sale at stated times after public notice, 

 and tracts which find no buyers revert to the State. 



Dentate. Toothed with teeth pointing outward, not forward. 



Dibber. A pointed instrument used for making holes. 



Dicotyledonous. Having two cotyledons or seed leaves. 



Dioecious. Staminate and pistillate flowers borne on different 

 plants. 



Distillation product. The substance obtained by the decomposi- 

 tion of a compound. 



Divided. Said of leaves when the wings are cut into divisions 

 down to base or midrib. 



Division. See Bud-division. 



