GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 201 



Contrary, turned in opposite direction to the ordinary. 



Convolute, rolled up lengthwise, as tiie leaves of the Plum in vernation, 72. In 



aestivation, same as conturteJ, 97. 

 Cordate, heart-shaped, 53. 

 Coriaceons, resembling- leather in texture. 

 Corky, of the texture of coi-k. Corky layer of bark, 141. 

 Cor?n, a solid bulb, like that of Crocus, 45. 

 Corneous, of the consistence or appearance of horn. 

 Corniculale, furnished with a small horn or spur. 

 Cornute, horned; bearing- a horn-like projection or appendage. 

 Corolla, the leaves of the flower within the calyx, 14, 79. 

 Corollaceous, Coroliine, like or belonging to a corolla. 



Corona, a coronet or crown; an appendage at the top of the claw of some petals, 91. 

 Coronate, crowned; furnished with a crown. 

 Cortex, bark. Cortical, belonging to the bark (cortex). 

 Corticate, coated with bark or bark-like covering. 

 Corymb, a flat or convex indeterminate flower-cluster, 74. 

 Corymbiftrous, bearing corymbs. 



Corymbose, in corymbs, approacliing the form of a corymb, or branched in that way. 

 Costa, a rili; the midi-il) of a leaf, &c. Costate, ribbed. 

 Cotyladons, the proper leaves of the embryo, 11, 127. 

 Crateriforia, goblet-shaped or deep saucer-shaped. 



Creepliir/ (stems), growing flat on or beneath tlie ground and rooting, 39. 

 Cremocarp, a half-fruit, or one of the two carpels of Umbelliferje, 121. 

 Crenate, or Crenelled, the edge scalloped into rounded teeth, 55. 

 Crenutate, minutely or slightly crenate. 



Crested, or Cristate, bearing any elevated appendage like a crest. 

 Cretaceovs, chalky or chalk-like. 



Cribrose, or cribriform, pierced like a sieve with small apertures. 

 Crinite, bearing long hairs. 

 Crispate, curled or crispy. 

 Croceous, saffron-color, deep reddish-yellow. 

 C?-oss-breeds, the progeny of interbred varieties, 176. 

 Cross fertilization, 115. 

 Crown, see corona. Crowned, see coronate. 

 Cruciate, or Crucform, cross-shajied. Cruciform Corolla, 86. 

 Crustaceous, hard and brittle in texture; crust-like. 

 Cryptofjamous Plants, Cryptof/ains, 10, 156. 



Cryptos, concealed, as Cryptopctalous, with concealed petals, &c. 

 Crystals in plants, 137. 

 Cucullate, liooded, or hood-shaped, rolled up like a cornet of paper, or a hood 



(cucullus), as the spathe of Indian Turnip, 75. 

 Culm, a straw; the stem of Grasses and Sedges, 39. 

 Cultrate, shaped like a trowel or broad knife. 

 Ciintate, Cuneiform, wedge-shaped, 53. 

 Clip-shaped, same as cyathiform or near it. 

 Ciipide, a little cup; the cup to tlie acorn of the Oak, 122 

 Cnpular, or Cupitlate, provided with a cupule. 

 Cuputiferous, cupide-bearing. 

 Curviveined, with curved ribs or veins. 

 Curvisei-ial, in oblique or spiral ranks. 



Cushion, the enlargement at the insertion or base of a petiole. 

 Cuspidate, tipped with a sharp and stifT point or cusji, 54. 

 Cut, same as incised, or applied generally to any siiarp and deep division, 55. 

 Cuticle, the skin of plants, or more strictly its external pellicle. 

 Cyniieoiis, bright blue. 



Cyathiform, in tlic shape of a cup, or particularlj' of a wine-glass. 

 Cycle, one complete turn of a spire, or a circle, 70- 



