210 GLOSSARY. 



Cldthrate : latticed ; same as cancellate. 



Cldvate : club-shaped ; slender below and thickened upwards. 



Claw: the narrow or stalk-like base of some petals, as of Pinks ; p. 102, fig. 200. 



Climbing : rising by clinging to other objects; p. 37. 



Club-shaped : see cktvate. 



Clustered : leaves, flowers, c. aggregated or collected into a bunch 



C/ypeate : buckler-shaped. 



Codflunate : same as connate ; i. e. united. 



Coalescent : growing together. 



Codrctate : contracted or brought close together. 



Coated Bulbs, p. 46. 



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



Coccus (plural cocci) : anciently a berry; now mostly used to denote the carpels 



of a dry fruit which are separable from each other, as of Euphorbia. 

 Cochledriform : spoon-shaped. 

 Cdchlcate : coiled or shaped like a snail-shell. 



Ccclospe'rmous : applied to those fruits of Umbellifcra which have the seed hol- 

 lowed on the inner face, by the curving inwards of the top and bottom ; as in 



Coriander. 



Coherent, in Botany, is usually the same as connate; p. 104. 

 Collective fruits, p. 133. 



Collum or Collar : the neck or line of junction between the stem and the root. 

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



as in Geranium (fig. 278), or which is left when a pod opens, as in Azalea 



and Rhododendron. 

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



one body, as in the Orchis family, fig. 226. 

 Columnar : shaped like a column or pillar. 



Coma : a tuft of any sort (literally, a head of hair) ; p. 135, fig. 317. 

 Co'mose : tufted ; bearing a tuft of hairs, as the seeds of Milkweed ; fig. 317. 

 Commissure : the line of junction of two carpels, as in the fruit of Umbclliferse, 



such as Parsnip, Caraway, &c. 

 Common: used as "general," in contradistinction to "partial"; e. g. "common 



involucre," p. 81. 

 Cdmplanate : flattened. 



Compound leaf, p. 64. Compound pistil, p. 118. Compound umbel, c., p. 81. 

 Complete (flower), p. 89. 

 Complicate : folded upon itself. 

 Compressed : flattened on two opposite sides. 

 Condiiplicate : folded upon itself lengthwise, as are the leaves of Magnolia in the 



bud, p. 76. 



Cone: the fruit of the Pine family ; p. 133, fig. 314. 

 Confluent : blended together ; or the same as coherent. 

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



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

 Congested, Conglomerate : crowded together. 

 Conjugate : coupled ; in single pairs. 

 Connate: united or grown together from the first. 



