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Cuneiforme folium, a wedge-shaped leaf. 

 Cyathiformis corolla, flowers of the form of a cup. 

 Cylmdracea spica, a spike of flowers in form of a cylinder. 

 Cyma, that runs into long fastigiate peduncles, proceeding from 



the same universal centre, but with irregular partial ones. 

 Cymosus //os, see Cyma. 

 Cymosae, an order of plants in the Fragmenta methodi natu- 



ralis of Linnaeus. 



j, a leaf whose texture is remarkably beau- 

 tiful and exquisitely wrought. 

 Debilis caui'iSj a weak, feeble stalk. 

 Decagynia, ten females, the fifth order in the tenth class; 



flowers that have ten styli. 



Decandiia, ten males, the tenth class of Linnaeus. 

 Decaphyllus calyx, a calyx consisting of ten leaves. 

 Deciduum folium, leaves that fall off in winter. 

 Declinatus caiilis, a stalk bending towards the earth. 

 Decomposita folia, when a petiole once divided connects 



many folioles, as in Aegopodiurn podagraria. 

 Decumbens, lying down. 

 Decurrens folium, running down, when the base of a sessile 



leaf extends itself downwards along the stem, beyond the 



proper base or termination of the leaf. 

 'Decmsive folium pi tuiatitfn, when the bases of the foliole 



are continued along the sides of the petiolus. 

 Decussata folia, divided, when leaves grow in pairs, and op- 

 posite, each pair being opposite alternately. 

 Deflexus ramuSy a branch bent a little downwards. 

 Deflorata tfamina, having shed or discharged the farina fe- 



cimdans. 



Defoliatio, the time in autumn when plants shed their leaves. 

 Deltoide's^b/wm, a leaf formed like a trowel, or the Greek 



Delta, as in Mesembryanthemum deltoides. 

 Demersum folium, in aquatic plants, leases sunk below the 



surface of the water. 

 Dfciidroides surculus, shrub-like, a subdivision of the Sur- 



culus in the genus Hypnuni. 

 Dent-alum folium, leaves having horizontal points of the same 



consistence with the leaf, and standing at a little cfistance 



from each other. 



Denudatae, 



