GLOSSARY. 



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Clef i Cut riaff-way down or there- 

 about ; y8. 



Cllmbmy. Rising by laying hold of 

 surrounding objects for support; 51. 



Clinandrium. The anther-bed in Orchi- 

 daceae. 



Clinanthium. A name for the receptacle 

 of inriorescence in Composite ; 148. 



Clinium. Used in Greek compounds for 

 receptacle, e.g. Periclinium, for an 

 involucre around the receptacle of 

 inflorescence. 



Close-fertilization. Fecundation by own 

 pollen ; 216, 280. 



Cloves. A gardener's name for young 

 bulbs developed around a mother bulb. 



Club-shaped. Gradually thickened up- 

 ward from a slender base. 



Clustered. Collected in a bunch of any 

 sort. Cluster is a good indefinite name 

 for any assemblage of flowers on a 

 plant. 



Clypeate (-atus), Clypeiformis. Buck- 

 ler-shaped. 



Coacerrate (-atus). Heaped together. 



Coddnate (-atus), Coadunatus. Same as 

 Adnate. 



Coalescence. Union of similar parts; 

 179, 180. 



Coafescent (-ens), Coalitus. Cohering; 

 properly applied to the organic cohe- 

 sion of similar parts. 



Coarctate (-atus). Crowded together. 



Coated. Composed of layers as an 

 onion, or furnished with a covering 

 or rind. 



Cobwebby. Bearing long and soft entan- 

 gled hairs. 



Coccineus. Bright red or scarlet (red 

 with a little yellow). 



Coccus. Greek for a kernel or nutlet, 

 from which the Latin Coccum, the 

 kermes or scarlet grain (supposed 

 berry } of the Quercus coccifera; used 

 botanically, mostly in the form of 

 "coccus," for the portions into which 

 a schizocarp, or lobed fruit with one- 

 seeded cells, splits up; these portions 

 are Cocci or Coccules ; 296. 



Cocfilea.r (CocJiIearis). Spoon-shaped. 

 Unmeaningly applied also to a form 

 of imbrieative aestivation with one 

 piece exterior; 137. 



Cochleate (-atus). Shell-shaped, i. e. 

 spiral in the manner of a snail-shell. 



Coelospermous (-us). Hollow-seeded: ap- 

 plied to seed-like carpels of Umbelli- 

 ferae with ventral face incurved at top 

 and bottom, as in Coriander. 



Ccenanthium. Synonym of Clinanthium. 



Coenobio. Synonym of Carcerulus. 



Cohesion. The congenital union of one 

 organ with another ; either similar 

 parts (coalescence), or dissimilar parts 

 (adnation). 



Cohort. In classification a group next 

 superior to order, 326. 



Coleorkiza. Root-sheath; the invest- 

 ment (belonging to the cotyledon or 

 plumule) through which the primary 

 root in many Monocotyledons bursts 

 in germination; 26. 



Collar ( Collum). Name of an imaginary 

 something intermediate between pri- 

 mary stem and root. 



Collateral. Standing side by side. 



Collective Fruits. The aggregation of 

 the fruits of several flowers into one 

 mass ; 301. 



Colwed. Of other color than the green 

 of herbage; 118. 



Columella. The persistent axis of cer- 

 tain capsules, spore-cases, &c. ; 289. 



Column (Columna). Body formed by 

 the union of the filaments among them- 

 selves (as in a malvaceous flower), or 

 with the style or stigma, as in Or- 

 chids; 250. 



Columnar. Column-shaped ; pillar- 

 shaped. 



Coma. Literally a head of hair ; a tuft 

 of hairs of any sort ; specially a tuft of 

 hairs on a seed; 306. Also the name 

 of the whole head of a tree. 



Commissure (-ura). The face by which 

 two carpels cohere, as in Umbellifene. 



Common ( Communis). General or prin- 

 cipal, as opposed to partial. 



Comose (-osus), sometimes Comatus. 

 Furnished with a coma. 



Complanate (-atus). Flattened. 



Complete (Completus). Having all the 

 parts belong to it or to the type; 175. 



Complicate (-atus). Folded upon itself. 



Compound. Said of similar parts aggre- 

 gated into a common whole. Com- 

 pound Flotcer, 147. Compound Pistil, 

 263. Compound inflorescence, 159. 



Compound Leaf. One divided into sep- 

 arate blades ; 100. 



Compressed ( -us). Flattened lengthwise. 



Concaulescence. A name for the coales- 

 cence of axes ; 158. 



Conceptacle (-aculum). Originally used 

 by Linnaeus for what is noAv called 

 Follicle ; and later for the pair of fol- 

 licles of Asclepiadaceae and Apocy- 



