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GLOSSARY. 



Cereal; pertaining to Ceres; belonging to 

 those farinaceous grains, or seeds, of 

 Avhich bread is made, and over which 

 the goddess Ceres was supposed, by the 

 ancients, to preside. 



Cernuous; nodding; the apex or summit 

 drooping, or turned downwards. 



Cjtspitose; having many stems growing from 

 the same root, forming a tuft, or tussock. 



Chaff. A dry membrane, usually the 

 small husks, or seed-covers, of the grass- 

 es ; also the bracts on the receptacle, of 

 many compound and other aggregate 

 flowers. 



Chaff if, bearing chaif; also resembling 

 chaff. 



Channels. Longitudinal grooves; the in- 

 terstices between the ribs on the fruit of 

 umbelliferous plants. 



Channelled; grooved or furrowed. 



Character (in Natural History). The fea- 

 tures of objects, or classes of objects, by 

 which they are known, and distinguished 

 from each other. 



Chartdceous; a texture resembling that of 

 paper. 



Cicatrice. A scar, such as that left at the 

 place of articulation, after the fall of a 

 leaf, &c. 



C'dia. Hairs arranged like eye-lashes, along 

 the margin of the surface. 



Cdiate; fringed, or edged with parallel 

 hairs like eye-lashes. 



CiUate-seri-ate; having serratures resem 

 bling cilia, or short eye lashes. 



Clliol.K ; diminutive of cilia ; hairs like 

 miniature eyel ashes. 



Cinereous; of the color of wood ashes. 



Ctrcinat"; with the apex rolled back on 

 itself, like the young fronds of a fern. 



Cit'cumscissed; cut round transversely, or 

 opening horizontally, like a snuff box 



Cirrhose; bearing tendrils, or terminating 

 in a tendril. 



Cirrliu*. A tendril, which see. 



Class. One of the higher or primary divi- 

 sions of plants, or other natural objects, in 

 a systematic arrangement. 



Clavate; club-shaped ; thicker towards the 

 summit, or outer end. 



ClaveUftte; in the form of a little club, i. 

 e. larger at summit. 



Claw of a petal. The slender tapering por- 

 tion at base, or below the middle. 



O'eft; split, or divided, less than halfway to 

 the base : sometimes the division itself is 

 called a cleft. 



Glypeate; in the form of an ancient shield or 

 buckler. 



Co ttaneous flow r ers ; appearing at the same 

 time with the leaves. 



Coarctnte; contracted, or crowded into a 

 narrow compass. 



Coccus (plural cocci"). A kind of semi- 

 baccate indehiscent carpel. 



Cochleate; coiled like a snail-shell. 



Coherent; united with an organ of the same 



kind, as stamens coherent with each 

 other, &c. See adherent. 



Collateral; placed side by side ; or on the 

 same side of another organ. 



Colored; of any other color than green. 



ColumeUa; a little column. 



Column. The axis or central pillar of a 

 capsule ; or the combined filaments, and 

 style of a Gynandrous or Orchidaceous 

 plant. 



Coma; a terminal tuft of hair, bracts, &c. 



Commissure. The line of junction of two 

 bodies, as the face of the carpels (or 

 mericarps), in UMBELLIFER/F. 



Common (petiole, peduncle, &c.); belonging 

 to, or sustaining, several similar subordi- 

 nate parts. 



Comose; having a tuft or topknot of hairs, 

 bracts, or leaves, at summit or at one end. 



Compact; condensed or pressed together. 



Complete flower ; having both calyx and 

 corolla. 



Compound; not simple, but made up of 

 similar simple parts. 



Compound Jimcer. An aggregated cluster, 

 or head of syngenesious florets, seated on 

 a common receptacle, and embraced by 

 an involucre, or many leaved common 

 calyx. 



Compound leaf. Consisting of several leaf- 



* lets, or laminte, each articulated with the 

 common petiole, and ultimately falling 

 from it. 



Compound Pistil. Consisting of 2 or more 

 carpels, or simple ovaries, cohering to- 

 gether. 



Compound Umbel. An Umbel in which 

 each primary peduncle, or ray, bears a 

 small umbel at summit. 



Compressed; flatted, as if squeezed or press- 

 ed. 



Concave; presenting a hollow or depressed 

 surface. 



Concentric layers, or circles. Circles of 

 different sizes, or diameters, with a com- 

 mon centre. 



Concrete: grown together, or united. 



Conduplicdte; doubled lengthwise, or fold- 

 ed together like a sheet of paper, or the 

 leaves of a book. 



Cone. The woody ament of the Pines. 



Conic, Conical, or Conoid; having the fig- 

 ure of a cone. 



Confluent; blended, or running together; 

 forming a junction. 



Congener. A plant belonging to the same 

 genus: nearly related. 



Conglomerate; clustered or heaped together. 



Conjugate; in pairs ; coupled. 



Connate-perfoliate\e&\GS>; their bases unit- 

 ed round the stem. 



Connate; growing together, or cohering. 



Connective, or Connectivum. The organ 

 which connects the two cells of an anther, 

 conspicuous in some of the LAHIAT . 



Conn'went ; the summits meeting, or bend- 

 ing towards each other. 



