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INDEX AND GLOSSARY. 



Cell- wall, 259, 265. 

 Centrifugal inflorescence, 187. 

 Centripetal inflorescence, 186. 

 Chalaza: the part of an ovule 



where the coats are united to 



the nucleus, 245. 

 Chlorophyll, 156, 274, 307. 

 Ciliate, 182. 

 Circinate : curled up like the young 



frond of a Fern, 166, 324. 

 Circulation in cells, 262. 

 Circuincissile : opening like a 



pyxis, Fig. 207. 

 Classification, 357. 

 Claw (of a petal), 45, 207. 

 Cleistogarnous flowers, 247. 

 Climbing stems, 150. 

 Closed bundles, 298. 

 Club-shaped : with the lower part 



more slender than the upper, as 



the style of Dog's-tooth Violet, 



Fig. 82. 



Clustered, 133, 164. 

 Coats of the ovule, 244. 

 Coherent: a term applied to the 



union of like parts, 26. 

 Cohesion, 26. 

 Collateral bundles, 299. 

 Collective fruits, 237. 

 Collenchyma, 271, 286, 303. 

 Colour of flowers, 274. 

 Columella, 341. 

 Column, 91. 

 Coma : a tuft of hairs, such as that 



on the seed of Dandelion, Fig. 58. 

 Complete, 8. 

 Compound or Composite flowers, 



62. 



Compound leaf, 43, 167. 

 Compound pistil, 215. 

 Compound spike, corymb, &c.,189. 

 Concentric bundles, 299. 

 Conduplicate vernation, 166. 

 Cone, 124, 223. 

 Conical, 133. 



Coniferous : bearing cones. 

 Conjugation, 284, 355. 

 Connate : grown together. 

 Connate-perfoliate, Fig. 165. 

 Connective, 65, 211. 

 Convolute : rolled inward from ov 



edge, 38, 88, 166, 210. 

 Cordate, 175. 



Cork, 294, 303. 

 Corm, 94, 154. 

 Corolla, 5, 13, lD ; 207. 

 Corymb, 189. 



Corymbose : like a corymb. 

 Cotyledons, 78, 117, 252. 

 Creeping, 149. 

 Cremocarp, 243. 

 Crenate, Fig. 163. 

 Cross-fertilization, 247. 

 Cruciform: cross-shaped, as th<; 

 flowers of Shepherd's Purso, &n. 

 Cryptogams, 359. 

 Crystalloids, 280. 

 Crystals, 278. 

 Culm, 103, 150. 

 Cuneate : wedge-shaped. 

 Currents of water, 315, 316. 

 Cuspidate, Fig. 161. 

 Cuticle, 292. 

 Cycle, 159. 

 Cyclic flowers, 195. 

 Cyme, 191. 



Cymose : like a cyme, 143, 185. 

 Cystoliths, 279. 



Decandrous : with ten separate 

 stamens. 



Deciduous, 5, 206. 



Decompound : applied to leaves 

 whose blades are divided and 

 sub-divided. 



Decumbent: applied to stems 

 which lie on the ground but turn 

 upward at the extremity. 



Decurrent, Fig. 166. 



Decussate : applied to the arrange- 

 ment of leaver, when successive 

 pairs of oppot'te leaves are at 

 right angles, as in the plants of 

 the Mint Family, 158. 



Definite inflorescence, 187, x 191. 



Deflexed : bent down. 



Dehiscence of anther?, Figs. 185, 

 186, 187. 



Dehiscent, 231. 



Deliquescent: applied to stems 

 which dissolve into branches. 



Deltoid, Fig. 148. 



Dentate, 178. 



Depauperate : unnaturally 



Depressed : flattened down. 



