XVI GLOSSARY. 



Cone ; fruit of a fir-tree. 



Conical-, a solid figure narrowing- to a point from a circular 



base. 



Connate ; when two similar parts, as leaves, are slightly con- 

 nected round the stem. 

 Connective ; the continuation of the filament between the cells 



of an anther. 

 Connivent ; converging. 

 Constricted ; narrowed at some point as if by the pressure of a 



string. 



Contiguous petals touch or overlap by their edges. 

 Converging ; their points gradually approaching. 

 Convolute ; rolled together lengthwise. 

 Cordate ; ovate, acute, with two rounded lobes at the base ; 



like the figure of the heart on cards : a cordate-based leaf 



is of any shape, but has the two lobes at its base. 

 Coriaceous ; leathery ; firm, dry, tough. 

 Conn : a fleshy bulblike, but solid, not scaly underground 



stem. 



Corneous ; like horn, 

 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 about on a level. 

 Corymbose ; in the form of a corymb. 

 Cotyledons ; the seed-lobes, often forming the first leaves of the 



plant. 

 Crenate ; with rounded marginal teeth. When these are again 



crenate, the whole is doubly crenate ; not bicrenate, which 



means having two such teeth. 



Crenatures ; the blunt rounded teeth of a crenate leaf. 

 Cremdate ; minutely crenate. 

 Crested ; having an appendage like a crest. 

 Crowned ; having an appendage on the upper side at the base 



of the limb, as some petals. 

 Cruciform-, four parts, as petals, arranged so as to form a 



cross. 



Cmstaceous ; hard, thin and brittle. 

 Cuneate ; like a wedge, but attached by its point. 

 Cuspidate ; abrupt, but with a point starting suddenly from the 



middle of its end. 

 Cuticle ; the external skin. 

 Cylindrical ; nearly in the form of a cylinder. 

 Cyme ; inflorescence formed of a terminal flower, beneath which 



are lateral branches each having a terminal flower and 



lateral branches again similarly dividing, and so on. A 



