82 PLANT NAMES 



comatus, hairy; communis, common; comptus, 

 adorned; concinnus, neat; con color, of same colour; 

 confertus, dense; congestus, crowded; contortus, 

 twisted ; copiosus, abundant ; cordahis, heart-shaped ; 

 coriaceus, leathery; cornutus, horned; coruscans, 

 flashing; corymbosus, with clusters; crassus, thick; 

 crenatus, scolloped; crispus, curled; cruentus, bloody; 

 cuneatus, wedge-shaped; curtus, short; cuspidatus, 

 pointed; cyneus, dark blue. 



Dealbatus, white-washed; decandra, with ten 

 stamens; decorus, becoming; decumbens, lying down; 

 decurrens, passing down and adhering to ; decussatus, 

 intersecting; dentatus, toothed; dichotomus, twice 

 forked; didymus, twin; dependens, hanging down; 

 diffusus, spread; dimorphus, of two forms; dis- 

 color, of two colours; distichus, in two rows; divari- 

 catus, stretched apart; ^o/a^r^i^ws, hatchet-shaped ; 

 dulcis, sweet; durus, hard. 



Edulis, edible; elatior, higher; esculentus, edible; 

 eximius, uncommon, excellent; excelsus, lofty. 



Falcatus, scythe-shaped; farinosus, mealy; fasti- 

 giatus, sharpened to a point ;fibrosus,fastuosus, fibry ; 

 filiferus, bearing threads ; fimbriatus, fringed ; fissus, 

 split; flabellatus, fan-shaped; flaccidus, flabby; 

 flavus, yellow; flexuosus, full of bends; floccosus, 

 woolly; florabundus, full of flowers; flore pleno, 

 double-flowered ; floridus, flourishing ; fcetidus, stink- 

 ing; foliosus, leafy; formosus, beautiful; frondosus, 

 leafy; fruticosus, bushy; fugax, transitory; fulgens, 

 fulgiuus, §,le3.mmg ; fulvus, tdiwny; fuscus, dark. 



