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GLOSSARY 



Caudex The erect perennial base 

 of a stem 



Cell The cavity or chamber of an 

 ovary 



Chaff Small papery colorless 

 scales between the flowers of an 

 aster head 



Channel A groove 



Claw The narrowed lower part of 

 a petal 



Cleft Cut about halfway to the 

 middle 



Coherent United or clinging to- 

 gether 



Compound Consisting of two or 

 more similar parts united 



Compound leaf Consisting of two 

 or more leaflets on a common ax- 

 is, the whole falling off together 

 as a rule 



Compressed Flattened 



Concave Hollowed or curved in- 

 wards 



Cone An elongated axis bearing 

 stamens or ovule-bearing scales, as 

 in the pine 



Constricted Narrowed or pinched 



Convex Curved outwards 



Convolute Rolled up lengthwise 



Cordate Heart-shaped 



Corm A solid bulb-like organ, as 

 in the crocus 



Corolla The brightly colored part 

 of most flowers, just within the 

 green calyx and made up of petals 



Corymb A flat-topped or convex 

 flower cluster, blooming first at 

 the edge 



Corymbose Corymb-like ; arrang- 

 ed as in a corymb 



Creeping Growing along the 

 ground 



Crenate Scalloped; with rounded 

 shallow teeth 



Crest A toothed or fringed ap- 

 pendage 



Crested With a crest 



Cross-wall Partition 



Crown A crown-like structure in 

 the center of the flowers of milk- 

 weeds 



Cylindric Oblong and round in 

 section 



Cyme A flower cluster blooming 

 from the apex or middle first, usu- 

 ally somewhat flat 



Cymose In a cyme; cyme-like 



Deciduous Falling off, usually at 

 the close of the season 



Declined Bent down 



Deflexed Bent down 



Dentate Toothed 



Diffuse Spreading 



Digitate Resembling the fingers 

 of a hand 



Dilated Broadened 



Dioecious Bearing pistils and sta- 

 mens on different plants 



Disk The base of a flower to 

 which the parts are attached 



Disk flower One of the flowers in 

 the central part of a head of flow- 

 ers 



Dissected Cut or divided into 

 numerous parts 



Divided Lobed nearly or quite to 

 the base 



Drupe A fleshy fruit with a pit or 

 stone, such as the plum 



Drupelet A small drupe 



Eared With ear-like appendages 



