BOTANICAL TERMS. 249 



COMPOUND ; a term applied to the flowers of the class 

 Syngenesia, which consist of many florets, or little 

 flowers, placed upon one receptacle, and included 

 within one common calyx ; each floret having 

 the anthers united: as the Daisy. [Plate 21.] 



COMPRESSED ; flattened on the sides. 



CONE, or STROBILE ; a solid body shaped like a sugar- 

 loaf. The fruit of the Fir, and of several other 

 trees, is called a cone, because it has this shape. 



CON'ICAL ; shaped like a cone or sugar-loaf; as the 

 receptacle of the Daisy. [Plate 21.] 



COROLLA, or Blossom. See BLOSSOM. 



COTYL'EDON; a seed-lobe, intended to nourish the 

 heart of the seed, and then to perish. 



CREEPING applied to stems and roots; extending 

 itself along, or under, the ground, and putting forth 

 fibrous roots. 



CROSS-SHAPED FLOWERS, are those which have four 

 equal petals, spreading out in the form of a cross ; 

 as the Wall-flower. [Plates 1. and 17.] 



CRU'CIFORM ; cross-shaped. 



CRYPTOGA'MIA ; the name given by Linnaeus to the 

 twenty-fourth class : stamens and pistils not visible 

 to the naked eye, or not ascertained. [Plates 2. 

 and 22.] 



CUP; a kind of calyx, so called because it is com- 

 monly shaped like a cup. It is either of one leaf, 

 as in Mouse-ear and Corn-cockle [Plates 8. and 

 12.] ; or formed of several leaves, as in Wall-flower 

 [Plates 1. and 17.]; and is sometimes double, as in 

 Mallow. [Plate 18.] And it contains either one 

 flower, as in the examples above mentioned, or 

 several, as in the Daisy. [Plate 21."] 



