218 EUCALYPTUS. 



Cornute : horned ; bearing a horn-like projection or appendage. 



Corolla : the leaves of the flower within the calyx. 



Corollaceous , Coralline : like or belonging to a corolla. 



Corona : a coronet or crown ; an appendage at the top of the claw of 



some petals, as Silene and Soapwort, or of the tube of the corolla of 



Hound 's-Tongue, etc. 



Coronate: crowned; furnished with a crown. 

 Cortical: belonging to the bark (cortex.} 

 Corymb : a sort of flat or convex flower-cluster. 

 Corymbose : approaching the form of a corymb, or branched in that way ; 



arranged in corymbs. 



Costa: a rib ; the midrib of a leaf, etc. Co state : ribbed. 

 Cotyledons : the first leaves of the embryo. 

 Crateriform : goblet-shaped ; broadly cup-shaped. 

 Creeping (stems) : growing flat on or beneath the ground and rooting. 

 Cremocarp : a half-fruit, or one of the two carpels of Umbelliferae. 

 Crenate, or Crenelled : the edge scalloped into rounded teeth. 

 Crested, or Cristate : bearing any elevated appendage like a crest. 

 Cribrose : pierced like a sieve with small apertures. 

 Crinite : bearded with long hairs, etc. 

 Crown : see corona. 



Crowning : borne on the apex of anything. 

 Cruciate, or Cruciform : cross-shaped, as the four spreading petals of the 



Mustard, and all the flowers of that family. 

 Crustaceous : hard, and brittle in texture ; crust-like. 

 Crytogamous, or Cryptogamic : relating to Crytogamia. 

 Cucullate: hooded, or hood-shaped, rolled up like a cornet of paper, or 



a hood (cucullus}, as the spathe of Indian Turnip. 

 Culm : a straw ; the stem of Grasses and Sedges. 

 Cuneate, Cuneiform : wedge-shaped. 

 Cup-shaped: same as cyathifbrm, or near it. 

 Cupule : a little cup ; the cup to the acorn of the Oak. 

 Cupulate : provided with a cupule. 

 Cuspidate : tipped with a sharp and stiff point. 

 Cut: same as incised, or applied generally to any sharp and deep 



division. 



Cuticle : the skin of plants, or more strictly its external pellicle. 

 Cyathiform : in the shape of a cup, or particularly of a wine-glass. 

 Cycle : one complete turn of a spire, or a circle. 

 Cyclical : rolled up circularly, or coiled into a complete circle. 

 Cyclosis : the circulation in closed cells. 

 Cylindraceous : approaching to the 

 Cylindrical form ; as that of stems, etc., which are round, and gradually 



if at all tapering. 



