GLOSSARY. 



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Cespitose. Growing in tufts or turf-like ; 

 forming mats. 



Chaff. Small dry scales, usually mem- 

 braneous or scarious. 



Chartaceous. Having the texture of 

 parchment or writing-paper. 



Ciliate. Having the margin, or some- 

 times the nerves, fringed with hairs 

 like eye-lashes. 



Cinereous. Ash-gray, the color of wood 

 ashes. 



Circinate. Rolled up from the tip into 

 a coil. 



Circumscissile. Dehiscing by a trans- 

 verse circular line of division. 



Clavate. Club-shaped ; enlarged gradu- 

 ally toward the summit. 



Claw. The elongated narrow base of a 

 petal or sepal. 



Cleft. Cut somewhat deeply, usually 

 about half way to the center or mid- 

 rib. 



Climbing. Rising by the aid of some 

 support. 



Coalescent. United ; used properly in 

 respect to similar parts, as the sta- 

 mens in Malvaceae. 



Cohesion. The sticking together of 

 parts, or their more intimate coales- 

 cence or adnation. 



Colored. Of other color than green. 



Column. A. body formed by the union of 

 filaments (stamineal) or, in orchids, 

 of the stamens and pistil. 



Coma. A tuft of hairs, especially upon 



Commissure. The surface by which two 



carpels cohere, as in Umbelliferae. 

 Comose. Having a coma. 

 Complicate. Folded together. 



Compound. The opposite of simple ; 

 consisting of more than one ; divided. 



Comp resse d . Flattened 1 aterally . 



Conduplicate. Doubled together length- 

 wise, of leaves. 



Confluent. Blended or running together. 



Conical. Shaped like a cone ; narrowing 

 to a point from a circular base. 



Connate. United in one ; growing 

 together. 



Connective. The portion of the filament 

 which connects (or separates) the 

 cells of the anther. 



Connivent. Coming in contact; con- 

 verging together. 



Constricted. Contracted or drawn to- 

 gether, as a bag by its string. 



Continuous. Not interrupted by joints 

 or otherwise. 



Contorted. Twisted ; in aestivation, an 

 equal and uniform somewhat oblique 

 overlapping and rolling up of the 

 parts of the circle. 



Contracted. Reduced in width or length. 



Convolute. Rolled together from one 

 edge. See contorted. 



Cordate. Heart-shaped, i. e., ovate with 

 rounded lateral lobes projecting be- 

 yond the base and forming a sinus. 



Coriaceous. Of the stiffness and con- 

 sistence of leather. 



Corm.A. solid fleshy rounded or de- 

 pressed subterranean body, at the 

 base of a stem, and bulb-like in 

 appearance. 



Corneous. Of the consistence of horn ; 

 horny. 



Corona. The inner perianth, within the 

 calyx, consisting of the petals. 



Corymb. A. flat-topped or convex open 

 inflorescence, with short axis, flow- 

 ering from the margin inward ; a de- 

 pressed raceme. 



Corymbose. In corymbs, or resembling a 

 corymb. 



Costa. A rib, mid-rib, or mid-nerve. 



Costate. Having one or more longitudi- 

 nal ribs or nerves. 



Cotyledons. The seed-lobes or leaves of 

 the embryo. 



Creeping. Running upon or under the 

 ground and rooting. 



Crenate. Scalloped ; having rounded 

 teeth with shallow acute sinuses. 



Crenulate. Finely crenate. 



Crested. Having an elevated ridge or 

 appendage like the crest of a helmet. 



Cruciferous. Belonging to the Crucif- 

 erse, with cruciform or cross-shaped 

 corolla. 



