324 HARDY FLOWERS. 



bipartite, divided nearly to its base into two parts. 



JBipinnate, when the divisions of a pinnate leaf are themselves pinnate. 



JJipinnatifid, when the divisions of a pinnatifid leaf are themselves pinnatifid. 



Jtiternate, when the divisions of a ternate leaf are themselves ternate. 



Bracteoles, minute bracts. 



Bracts, small leaves somewhat different from the others, seated on the 



peduncles. 



Bulb, a leaf -bud with fleshy scales, usually placed underground. 

 Bulbiferous, bearing bulbs. 

 Bulbils, small bulbs, produced in the axils of the leaves of some plants, as in 



Lilium bulbiferum. 

 Bulbous, having radical bulbs. 

 CcesiuSf with a fine pale blue bloom, 

 Ccespitose, in close dwarf tufts. 



Calyx, the outer whorl of leaf-like organs forming the flower. 

 Campanulate, bell-shaped. 

 Capillary, like very slender threads. 

 Capitate or Capitular, growing in heads or close clusters. 

 Capsule, a dry usually many-seeded seed-vessel. 

 Carpel, the divisions of the ovary or capsule. 

 Catkin, a spike of closely crowded flowers of one sex, in which the perianths 



are replaced by- bracts. 



Chaffy, covered with minute membranous scales. 

 Channelled, hollowed somewhat like a gutter < 

 Cilia, hairs placed like eyelashes on the edge of anything. 

 Ciliate, with cilia. 

 Circinate, rolled up from the top towards the base like the unfolding leaves of 



ferns. 



Clavate, clubshaped. 

 Claw, the narrow base of a petal. 

 Clawed, having a claw. 

 Cleft, deeply cut, but not to the midrib. 



Clubshaped, a body which is slender at the base and gradually thickens upwards. 

 Cluster, a close head of flowers. 

 Cohering, the attachment together of similar parts, as the petals forming a 



monopetalous corolla. 



Compound, formed of many similar parts, as the leaves of many acacias. 

 Compressed, flattened laterally. 

 Conical, narrowing to a point from a circular base. 

 Connate, when two similar parts, as leaves, are slightly connected round the 



stem. 



Connivent, converging. 



Converging, their points gradually approaching. 

 Convolute, rolled together lengthwise. 



Cordate, with two rounded lobes at the base, heart-shaped. 

 Coriaceous, leathery, tough. 



Corm, a fleshy bulb-like, solid, not scaly, underground stem. 

 Corolla, the whorl of floral leaves between the calyx and stamens, usually 



coloured, called petals. 

 Corymb, a raceme with the peduncles becoming gradually shorter as they 



approach the top, so that all the flowers are nearly on a level. 



