GLOSSAKY. XV 



Bulbous ; having radical bulbs. 



Bulbous hairs have a round swelling at their base. 



Ccespitose ; growing in tufts from the root. 



Calyx; the outer whorl of leaflike organs forming the flower, 



usually green, called sepals. 

 Capillary ; like very slender threads. 

 Capitate : growing in heads or close clusters ; having a knob 



like the head of a pin. 

 Capsular ; like a capsule. 



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

 Carpel ; the divisions of the ovary or capsule : sometimes one 

 carpel forms an ovary, being rolled up so that its edges 

 meet. 

 Carpophore ; the stalk of the ovary or capsule within the outer 



whorls of the flower. 

 Catkin ; a deciduous unisexual spike of crowded flowers in 



which the perianths are replaced by bracts. 

 Cauline ; growing from the stem, not radical. 

 Cellular tissue ; a collection of minute vesicles filled with fluid. 

 Chaffy ; covered with minute membranous scales. 

 Channelled ; hollowed somewhat like a gutter. 

 Cilia ; hairs placed like eyelashes on the edge of any thing. 

 Ciliate ; with cilia. 



Circinate ; rolled up from the top towards the base like a crosier. 

 Clavate; clubshaped. 

 Claw ; the narrow base of a petal. 

 Clawed ; having a claw. 

 Cleft ; deeply cut, but not to the midrib. 

 Clubshaped a long solid body which is slender at the base and 



gradually thickens upwards. 

 Cluster ; a kind of dense cyme ; also the patches of capsules in 



Ferns. 



Cessions ; with a fine pale-blue bloom. 

 Cohering ; the attachment to each other of similar parts ; as the 



petals forming a gamopetalous corolla. 



Collapsing; shrinking together. The submersed and much- 

 divided leaves of aquatic plants often collapse into a form 



like a painter's pencil, when removed from the water. 

 Columf-lla ; a cylindrical central placenta. 

 Commissure ; the inner faces of the carpels (mericarps) of Um- 



belli ferae, by which they join. 

 Compound ; formed of many similar parts which ultimately and 



naturally separate from each other. A. compound umbel 



has small umbels on its branches. 

 Compressed; when flattened laterally. 

 Conduplicate ; folded upon each other lengthwise. 



