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GLOSSARY AND INDEX. 



Olusiacc*, 400. 



Clusteud : collected into a bunch. 



Giypeate : buckler-shaped. 



Coace'rvate : heaped together 



Coddunute: cohering ; united at the base 

 or farther. 



Coalescence, 249. 



Coidescent : growing together. 



Conrcttite : crowded together. 



Coaled: composed of layers; or fur- 

 nished with a rind. 



Cobwebbxl, or cobwebby : bearing long 

 hairs like cobweb or gossamer. 



Cocculus Indicus, 384. 



Coccus (pi. cocci) : anciently a berry; 

 now used for the closed carpels into 

 which many fruits split (316), as 

 those of Euphorbia, fig. 1U3, 1145, 

 and Verbena, fig. 985 



Cochledi /form : shaped like a spoon (coch- 

 lea/ ) . 



Cochleae : like a snail-shell (cochlea). 



Cocoa-plum, 415. 



Ctelospc'rmous : i c. hollow-seeded ; the 

 top and bottom incurved, as in Co- 

 riandcr-sced. 



Coffee, 433. 



Coherent: united together. 



( 'ohesion of parts, 250, &c. 



Coleorhizn (root-sheath) : the sheath or 

 covering (belonging to the cotyle- 

 don or plumule) through which the 

 radicle of most Endogens bursts in 

 germination. 



Collai, collmn : the neck or line of junc- 

 tion between the pi imaiy stem and 

 root. 



Collective fiuits, 318. 



Colocynth, 423. 



Coloied: of some other color than green. 



Columbo-root, 38-1, 457. 



Columella : the axis, or central column, 

 of a pod or spore-case. 



Column : the united filaments of mon- 

 adelphous stamens, or the united 

 filaments and style in gynandrous 

 flowers ; 281, fig. 468. 



Columnar : pillar-shaped. 



Coma: a tuft of any sort, especially a 

 tuft of hairs on a seed, 321, fig. 

 602 ; the whole head of a tree, &.c. 



<*omate, or comosp : bearing a coma. 



Combretaccu3, 419. 



Commelynacese, or Commelinacca;. 496. 



Commissure: the line of junction of two 

 carpels ; used mostly in Umbel- 

 lifjrte, 426. 



Common : used as " general," opposed 

 to partial. 



CdmplancUe : flattened. 



Complete flowei : having all the kinds of 

 organs, 222, 238. 



Complicate : folded upon itself. 



Compositje, 435. 



Compound flower, 215, fig. 323-325,and 

 435, fig. 887, &c. 



Compound leaf: one composed of two or 

 more blades, 1 63. 



Compound pistil, 290. 



Compound spike, raceme, umbel, &c , 216. 



Compressed : flattened on two opposite 

 sides. 



Concentric layers of wood, 112, 123. 



Conchiform : shell-shaped. 



Concolored : all of one color. 



Condiiplicate ; folded together length- 

 wise, 144. 165. 



Cone: see Strobile, 319. 



Coiiferruminate: stuck together by their 

 adjacent faces, as the cotyledons of 

 Horseehestnut, 327. 



Confertid: crowded 



Confluent : running together, or blended 

 into one. 



Conformed: similar to; or closely fitted 

 to, as the skin to the kernel of a 

 seed. 



Congested: crowded together. 



Conglobate: clustered into a ball. 



Conglomerate : thickly clustered. 



Coniferas, 4 79. 



Coniferous : cone-bearing. 



Conjugate : coupled; in single pairs. 



Conjugation, 332. 



Connate: united or grown together from 

 the earliest state, 251. 



Connate-pei foliate, 166, fig 294. 



Connective, connecticum : the part of the 

 anther connecting its two cells or 

 lobes, 281, 282. 



Connii-ent: converging. 



Conoidal: approaching a conical form. 



Consolidated: when unlike parts are 

 grown together. 



(Consolidation, 250. 



Continuous : not intciruptcd. 



Contorted: twisted, 272. 



Contortiiplicate : twisted and folded. 



Contracted : cither narrowed or short- 

 ened. 



Contraiy : opposite in direction to some- 

 thing it is compared with, as the 

 pod of Shepherd's Purse flattened 

 contrary to the partition. 



Cdnvolttte (rolled up) or cdnvolutive aesti- 

 vation, 272. 



Cdnvolute vernation : rolled up length- 

 wise in the bud, 144. 



ConvolvulaceoD, 454. 



Copaiva, 414. 



Copal, 414. 



Copalehc-bark, 434. 



Cordate: heart-shaped ; shaped like a 

 heart as painted upon cards, the 



