HENDERSON'S HANDBOOK OF PLANTS. 



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of which there are several beautiful forms, j 

 Cupressus sempervirens is the common 

 Cypress. The Junipers have a peculiar ' 

 succulent fruit. Janiperm Bermudmna \ 

 and J. Virginiana furnish the Cedar for 

 lead pencils. The species of Thuja are 

 known by the name of Arbor Vitse. 



Conifers. The English name for the order 

 Coniferce. 



Coniocysts. Closed spore-cases resembling 

 tubercles, and containing a mass of 

 spores. 



Coniothecce.The cells of an anther. 



Conjugates. A tribe of green-spored Algce. 

 See Algce. 



Conjugate. Paired; joined in pairs, as 

 when the petiole of a leaf bears one pair 

 only of leaflets; a term chiefly applied to 

 leaves. 



Conjugato-palmate.Wheu. a leaf divides in- 

 to two arms, each of which is palmate. 



Conjugato-pinnate. When a leaf divides in- 

 to two arms, each of which is pinnate. 



Conjunctorium. Theoperculum (which see) 

 of the spore-case of an Urn Moss. 



Connaracece, (Connarads.) A family of 

 Calycifloral Dicotyledons, belonging to 

 Lindley's Rutal Alliance. They are close- 

 ly allied, on the one hand, to Xanthoxy- 

 lece, and on the other to Leguminosce, dif- 

 fering from the former chiefly in the 

 more completely apocarpous ovary, and 

 from the latter in the perfectly regular 

 flowers, and in the seed, in which the 

 radicle is always at a distance from the 

 hilum. They are trees or shrubs, some- 

 times climbing, with alternate, usually 

 pinnate leaves; the stipules are either 

 small and deciduous, or wanting; the 

 flowers are small, in terminal or axillary 

 racemes or panicles. There are five se- 

 pals and petals, ten stamens, and one to 

 five carpels, with two ovules in each, and 



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distinct terminal styles. They are na- 

 tives of the tropics of both hemispheres. 

 Zebra-wood is obtained from Omphalo- 

 bium Lamberti. There are about forty 

 species and six or seven genera. Con- 

 narus, Rourea, and Cnestis are representa- 

 tive genera. 



Connate, Connatus. When the bases of two 

 opposite leaves are iTiiited together. Also, 

 when any parts, originally distinct, be- 

 come united in after-growth. 



Connective^. Of or belonging to the connec- 

 tive, which see. 



Connective. The part which intervenes be- 

 tween the two lobes of an anther, and 

 holds them together; it is subject to a 

 great diversity of form. It seems to be 

 analogous to the midrib of a leaf, and is 

 only absent when an anther is strictly 

 one-celled; that is, when the whole of the 

 interior of the end of the stamen is con- 

 verted into pollen. 



Connivent. Convergent; having a gradu- 

 ally inward direction, as many petals. 



Conniving. Converging. See Connivent. 



Conocarp. A fruit consisting of a collec- 

 tion of carpels, arranged upon a conical 

 center, as the Strawberry. 



Conoidal. Resembling a conical figure, but 

 not truly one, as the calyx of Silene 

 conoidea. 



Conservative organs. The parts or organs 

 of a plant employed in carrying on the 

 function of nutrition; as the root, stem, 

 and leaves. 



Conservatory. The term usually applied to 

 a green-house structure when attached 

 to the dwelling-house, or when it is used 

 as a house wherein specimen plants are 

 grown or displayed; it is usually of an 

 ornamental character and of various 

 sizes. When detached, a convenient size 

 is twenty feet wide by fifty feet in length, 



