xxvi Glossary 



CAPITATE: arranged in a head; knob-like. 



CAPSULE: a dry, dehiscent seed-vessel. 



CARPEL: a pistil-leaf. The pistil is regarded as being 



composed of one or more such carpels. 

 CATKIN : the scaly, cylindrical flower-cluster of Willow, 



Birch, .etc. 



CAUDATE: with a tail-like appendage. 

 CAUDEX: the perennial rootstock of an otherwise 



annual plant. 



CHARTACEOUS: papery or parchment-like. 

 CILIATE : fringed with marginal hairs. 

 CINEREOUS : ashen or greyish. 

 CLEISTOGAMIC: (flowers) never opening as the late 



flowers of violets, etc. 

 CONNATE: united. 

 CORDATE: heart-shaped. 

 CORIACEOUS: leathery. 

 CORM: a solid bulb. 



CORYMBOSE: with a flat-topped or convex flower- 

 cluster, the flower-stalks of which arise at different 



points on the axis, and of which the outermost 



flowers are the oldest. 

 CRENATE: with rounded teeth. 

 CRENULATE: with small rounded teeth. 

 CUNEATE: wedge-shaped. 

 CUSPIDATE : ending in a sharp, hard point. 

 CYME: a flat-topped or convex flower-cluster, the 



flower-stalks of which arise at different points 



on the axis, and of which the innermost flowers 



are the oldest. 

 DECIDUOUS: subject to fall, as leaves of most trees and 



calyx and corolla of most flowers before the fruit 



forms. 

 DECUMBENT: (stems) reclining on the ground with 



summit tending to rise. 



