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GLOSSARY. 



Chaff}/, furnished with chaff. 



Channeled, hollowed out and gutter- 

 like. 



Ciliate, furnished with cilia, or stif- 

 fish hairs, so as to form a fringe 

 on the margin of an organ. 

 . Clavate, slender at the base and 

 gradually thickening towards the 

 apex, so as to become club-shaped. 



Claw, the narrowed base of a petal. 



Clustered, similar parts collected in 

 a close, compact manner. 



Cocci, the closed cells of a fruit 

 which separate from each other 

 when ripe, as in the Spurge. 



Column, the solid body formed by 

 the union of the filaments and 

 style, as in Orchids. 



Commissure, the face by which the 

 two parts of the fruit of the Um- 

 bellifers cohere. 



Compact, closely agglomerated or 

 pressed together. 



Complete, where no essential part is 



. wanting, as where a flower is fur- 

 nished with both stamens and 

 pistils. 



Cone, a dense aggregation of scale- 

 like carpels, arranged round an 

 axis, as in the fir tribe. 



Compressed, flattened lengthwise, as 

 in the pod of a pea, or in some 

 stems. 



Conical, approaching the form of a 

 cone. 



Connate, when the bases of two op- 

 posite leaves are united round the 

 stem, so that this appears to pass 

 through them. 



Connective, a portion of the stamen, 

 distinct from the filament, which 

 connects the cells of the anthers. 



Connivent, converging. 



Continuous, where there is no break 

 in the arrangement of parts ; the 

 opposite of interrupted. 



Contorted, when an organ is folded 

 or twisted back upon itself. 



Convolute, rolled up in a longitudi- 

 nal direction, so that one edge 

 overlaps the other, as the spathe 

 of an Aruui . 



Cordate, resembling the heart in a 

 pack of cards. 



Coriaceous, leathery. 



Corky, resembling cork in texture. 



Corm, the swollen, succident, bulb- 

 like mass which composes the 

 stem of certain monocotyledons, 

 as in the Crocus ; frequently 

 termed a solid-bulb. 



Corolla, the floral whorl next in 

 succession within the calyx, com- 

 posed of petals, which are free or 

 more or less united together. 



Corolline,ofor belonging to a corolla. 



Coronet, certain appendages, free or 

 united, seated on the inner surface 

 of the perianth, as the cup in 

 Narcissus, or the scales in Silene. 



Corymb, an inflorescence of which 

 the branches originate at different 

 parts along the main axis, and 

 elevate all the flowers to about 

 the same height. 



Corymbose, approacliing the form 

 assumed by the corymb. 



Cottony, bearing long soft entangled 

 and interlaced hairs. 



Cotyledon, a seed-lobe, or seed-leaf 

 as it is often called ; some em- 

 bryos possess only one (monoco- 

 tyledons), others have two (dico- 

 tyledons), or more. 



Crenate, having a series of rounded 

 marginal prominences. 



