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Cane scent : grayish-white ; hoary, usually because the surface is covered 



with fine white hairs. Incanous is whiter still. 

 Capillaceous , Capillary : hair-like in shape ; as fine as hair or slender 



bristles. 

 Capitate : having a globular apex, like the head of a pin ; as the stigma 



of Cherry ; or forming a head like the flower-cluster of Button -bush. 

 Capitellate : diminutive of capitate. 

 Capitulum (a little head): a close rounded dense cluster or head of sessile 



flowers. 



Capreolate : bearing tendrils (from capreolus, a tendril). 

 Capsule : a pod ; any dry dehiscent seed-vessel. 

 Capsular : relating to, or like a capsule. 

 Carina : a keel ; the two anterior petals of a papilionaceous flower r 



which are combined to form a body shaped somewhat like the keel 



(or rather the prow) of a vessel. 

 Carinate : keeled ; furnished with a sharp ridge or projection on the 



lower side. 



Cariopsis, or Caryopsis : the one-seeded fruit or grain of Grasses, etc. 

 Cameous : flesh-colored; pale red. 

 Carnose : fleshy in texture. 

 Carpel, or carpidium : a simple pistil, or one of the parts or leaves of 



which a compound pistil is composed. 

 Carpellaty : pertaining to a carpel. 



Caipology : that department of Botany which relates to fruits. 

 Carpophore : the stalk or support of a fruit or pistil within the flower. 

 Cartilaginous, or Cartilagineous : firm and tough like cartilage in 



texture. 



Caruncle : an excrescence at the scar of some seeds ; as those of Polygala. 

 Carunculate : furnished with a caruncle. 

 Caryophyllaceous : pink-like : applied to a corolla of five long-clawed 



petals. 



Catkin : a scaly, deciduous spike of flowers, an ament. 

 Caudate : tailed or tail-pointed. 



Caude.v : a sort of trunk, such as that of Palms ; an upright rootstock. 

 Caulescent: having an obvious stem. 

 Caiilicle : a little stem or rudimentary stem. 

 Cauline : of or belonging to a stem (cau/ts, in Latin). 

 Cell (diminutive Cellule} ; the cavity of an anther, ovary, etc; one of 



the elements or vesicles of which plants are composed. 

 Centrifugal (inflorescence) : produced or expanding in succession from 



the center outwards. The radicle is centrifugal, when it points away 



from the center of the fruit. 

 Centripetal : the opposite of centrifugal. 

 Ceteal ' : belonging to corn, or corn-plants. 



