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Cernuous : nodding ; the summit more or less inclining. 



Chaff: small membraneous scales or bracts on the receptacle of Com- 



positae ; the glumes, etc., of Grasses. 

 Chaffy : furnished with chaff, or of the texture of chaff. 

 Chalaza : that part of the ovule where all the parts grow together. 

 Channelled : hollowed out like a gutter ; same as canalicolate. 

 Character : a phrase expressing the essential marks of a species, genus, 



etc., which distinguish it from all others. 

 Chartaceous : of the texture of paper or parchment. 

 Chlorophyll : the green grains in the cells of the leaf, and of other parts 



exposed to the light, which give to herbage its green color. 

 Chromule : coloring matter in plants, especially when not green, or 



when liquid. 



Cicatrix : the scar left by the fall of a leaf or other organ. 

 Ciliate : beset on the margin with a fringe of cilia ^ i. e. of hairs or 



bristles, like the eyelashes fringing the eyelids, whence the name. 

 Cinereous, or Cineraceous : ash-grayish ; of the color of ashes. 

 Circinate : rolled inwards from the top, like a crosier, as the shoots of 



Ferns ; the flower-clusters of Heliotrope, etc. 

 Circumscissile, or Circumcissile : divided by a circular line round the 



sides, as the pods of Purslane, Plantain, etc. 

 Circumscription: the general outline of a thing. 



Cirrhiferous, or Cirrhose : furnished with a tendril (Latin, cirrhus] ; as 

 the Grape vine. Cirrhose also means resembling or coiling like 

 tendrils, as the leaf-stalks of Virgin 's-bower. 

 Clathrate : latticed ; same as cancellate. 



Clavate : club-shaped ; slender below and thickened upwards. 

 Claw : the narrow or stalk-like base of some petals, as of Pinks. 

 Climbing : rising by clinging to other objects. 

 Club-shaped: see clavate'. 



Clustered : leaves, flowers, etc. aggregated or collected into a bunch. 

 Clypeate. : buckle-shaped. 

 Coadunate : same as connate : i. e. united. 

 Coalescent : growing together. 

 Coarctate : contracted or brought close together. 



Cobwebby : same as arachnoid ; bearing hairs like cobwebs or gossamer. 

 Coccus (plural cocci] : anciently a berry ; now mostly used to denote the 

 carpels of a dry fruit which are separable from each other, as of 

 Kuphorbia. 



Cochleariform : spoon-shaped. 

 Cochleat: coiled, or shaped like a snail-shell. 



Ccelospetmous : applies to those fruits of Umbelliferse which have the 

 seed hollowed on the inner face, by the curving inwards of the top 

 and bottom, as in Coriander. 



