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GLOSSARY. 



Conch if ormis. Shaped like one valve of 

 a bivalve shell. 



Concinnus. Neat or elegant. 



Concolor. Of the same or of uniform 

 color. 



Conduplicate (-atus), Conduplicativus. 

 Folded together lengthwise; 133. 



Cone. See Strobile. 



Confertun. Closely packed or crowded. 



Conferruminate (-atus). Stuck together 

 by adjacent faces, as the cotyledons of 

 Horsechestuut ; 314. 



Confluent (-ens). Blended into one; pass- 

 ing by degrees the one into the other. 



Conformed (-ormis). Similar to in form ; 

 or closely fitted to, as a seed-coat to 

 the nucleus. 



Congested (-us). Crowded together. 



Conglobate (-atus). Collected into a ball. 



Conglomerate (-atus). Densely clus- 

 tered or heaped together. 



Coniferous (-us). Cone-bearing. 



Conjugate (-atus). Coupled; in single 

 pairs. Conjugate-pinnate, 104. 



Connate (-atus). United congenitally; 

 107, 182. 



Connate-perfoliate. United at base in 

 pairs around the supporting axis ; 108. 



Connective (-ivum). A portion of a sta- 

 men which connects the two cells or 

 lobes of an anther; 251. 



Connivent (-ens). Coming into contact 

 or converging. 



Conocarpium. An unused name for an 

 aggregate fruit, such as a strawberry, 

 consisting of many carpels on a coni- 

 cal receptacle ; 298. 



Consolidated. When unlike parts are 

 coherent. 



Continuous. The reverse of articulated 

 or interrupted. 



Contorted (-us). Twisted; or bent or 

 twisted on itself. In ^Estivation, the 

 same as Convolute; 138. 



ContorlupHcate (-atus). Twisted and 

 plaited or folded. 



Contracted. Either narrowed or short- 

 ened. 



Contrary (-arius). Opposite in direction 

 to the part compared with ; as a silicic 

 compressed contrary to the dissepi- 

 ment. 



Convolute (-utus) or Convolutive (-ivus). 

 Rolled up from the sides or longitudi- 

 nally. In ^Estivation, 138. In Ver- 

 nation, 133. 



Cdralloul (-em). Coral-like. 



CSrculum. Old name for the embryo, 

 or Corseminis; 311. 



Cordate (-atus), sometimes Cordiform 

 (-ormis). Heart-shaped ; like the fig- 

 ure of a heart on cards ; the stalk at 

 the broader and notched end ; 96. 



Coriaceous (-eus). Leathery in consist- 

 ence. 



Cork, 81. 



Corky. Of the texture of cork. 



Corky Envelope, 76. 



Corm ( Cormus). A bulb-like fleshy 

 stem, or base of a stem ; a "solid 

 bulb ; " 61. 



Cormophytes ( Cormophyta), 341. 



Corneous (-eus). Of the texture of horn. 



Corniculate (-atus). Furnished with a 

 little horn. 



Cornu. A horn ; i. e. a horn-like process ; 

 sometimes used for Calcar, a spur. 



Cornute (-utus). Furnished with a horn- 

 like process or spur. 



Corolla. The interior perianth, com- 

 posed of petals; 165, 243. 



Corollaceous (-eus), Corollinus. Pertain- 

 ing to, or resembling corolla. 



Corolliferous (-us). Bearing a corolla. 



Corollijlorous, Corollijlorce, 340. 



Corollula. Diminutive of corolla. 



Corona. A crown ; an inner appendage 

 to a petal, or to the throat of a corolla ; 

 210, 246. Or any coronet-like append- 

 age at the summit of (crowning) an 

 organ. 



Coronate (-atus). Crowned, having a 

 corona, &c. 



Coroniform (-ormis). Shaped like a 

 crown or coronet. 



Corrugate (-atus or -ativus). Wrinkled 

 or in folds ; 133. 



Cortex. Rind or bark. 



Cortical (-alia). Relating to bark. 



Corticate (-atus). Coated with a bark 

 or with an accessory bark-like cover- 

 ing. 



C6rymb ( Corymbus). A flat-topped or 

 merely convex and open flower-cluster 

 of the indeterminate or centripetal 

 order; 146. 



Corymbiferous (-us). Bearing corymbs. 



Corymbose. In corymbs, or in the man- 

 ner of a corymb. The corymb of 

 Linnaeus and of other writers down 

 to Roeper included most cymes. So 

 that much cymose inflorescence is 

 in descriptions loosely said to be 

 corymbose, or a stem is said to be 

 corymbosely branched, even when 

 the evolution is centrifugal ; 146. 



Costa. A rib; when single, a midrib 

 or mid-nerve. 



