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and pistillate flowers in the same capitate, having a head. 



cluster. capsule, a dry dehiscent fruit formed 



anterior, in a flower, is the part next from a compound pistil, 



the bract. carinate, keeled. 



antheriferous, anther-bearing . carpel, a pistil-leaf or sporophyll. 



anthesis, the period of floweringr. caruncle, an excrescence at the^ hilum 



antrorse, directed upward. of some seeds, 



apetalous, destitute of petals. catkin, see ament, 



apical, belonging to the apex. caudate, tailed, 



apiculate, tipped with a small point, caudex, an upright Stock, 

 apophysis, an irregular swelling, caudicle, the stalk of a pollen*rriass. 



aquatic, growing in water, caulescent, having an obvious stem, 



arachnoid, Cobwebby. caulicle, rudimentary stem of a seed- 



arborescent, treelike. ling, 



arcuate, bent or curved, oauline, belonging to the stem, 



areolate, marked out into little cell, the cavity of an anther or oVary. 



spaces. chaff, small membranous scales on 



aristate, awned. the receptacle of Compositae. 



aristulate, short-awned. chaparral, a thick growth of shrubs, 



articulated, jointed. such as manzanita or scrub-oak, 



ascending, rising obliquely upward, chartaceous, of the texture of paper, 

 assurgent see ascending. ciliate, beset on the margin with a 



auriculate, with auricles or ear-like fringe of hairs or bristles' 



appendages. clavate, club-shaped, 



awl-shaped, sharp-pointed from a claw, the stalk-like base of aome 



broader base. petals, 



awn, a bristle or beard-like append- cleistogamous, fertilized in closed 



age, buda. 



axillary, occurring in an axil, cleft, cut Into lobes, 



baccate, berry-like. comose, bearing a tuft of hairs, 



barbate, bearded. connate, united or grown together, 



berry, a fruit, pulpy or juicy through- connivent, converging. 



out, as a grape- convolute, rolled up lengthwise, 



bifid, 2-cleft to about the middle. cordate, heart-shaped, 



bifurcate, 2~forked. coriaceous, leathery in texture, 



bilabiate, 2-lippfd. corm, a solid bulb, 



bladdery, thin and inflated. cornute, horned, 



blade, the expanded portion of a leaf corona, a crown. 



or petal. corymb, a flat or convex fiower-clus- 



bloom, a whitish powder. ter. 



brachiate, in pairs, each pair arrang- corymbose, in corymbs. 



ed at right angles to the next. costa, a rib. 



bract, the leaf of an inflorescence. cotyledons, the seed-leaves* 



bractlet, bracts that occur on flower- creeping, growing flat on the ground 



pedicels. and rooting, 



bulb, a leaf-bud with fleshy scales, crenate, with rounded teeth. 



usually subterranean. ciuciate, hood-shaped or hooded, 



bullate, appearing as if blistered or culm, the stem of grasses or sedges, 



bladdery. cuneate, wedge-shaped, 



caducous, dropping off very early. cuspidate, tipped with a sharp stiff 

 caespitose, growing in tufts. point. 



callous, hardened. cyme, a cluster of centrifugal inflor- 



calyptra, a hood. escence. 



ccmpanr.late, bell-shapod. cymose, with Cymes, 



canescent, gravid-white, caused lisa- deciduous, fallmg off. 



al!y by a covering of fine whitish decompound, several times corn- 

 hairs- pound. 



